SAHM I AM: Mommy in Waiting
Well I have hit the final stretch of pregnancy number 3 and I am a mommy in waiting. While I wait I look around me at my life and my 2 kids and wonder how in the world I will take care of another. Moments like that can be overwhelming especially as a SAHM. Knowing your kids are with you all day depending on you for everything can make any sane person crazy. Then I remember with a smile ( only now can I smile) the day my oldest daughter was fussy all day due to an un-discovered dairy allergy and I called my husband crying saying how would I ever handle more kids if I couldn’t handle one 2 week old baby. Or those first few days of adjustment to being home alone with 2 kids without any help and how unfit and overwhelmed I felt. Then I remember the day it all clicked and my life fell into a fabulous routine with one child and then with two. And I also remember how my husband and I wanted another child each and every time we were blessed with a new pregnancy. It’s so funny how we forget and how easily we can be scared by the magnitude of our job as parents.
It is a lot we are molding , shaping and caring for another human being who is dependent on us to do it right. But it is also amazing, wonderful, rewarding and humbling. So after baby number 3 arrives and I write the inevitable post about how overwhelmed I am remind me of this post and this bit of advice… this too shall pass and probably way too quickly! Our kids pass from stage to stage way too quickly and with each one will come new challenges and new joys… I can’t wait.
As a mommy of 4, let me try to help ease your mind. You have already experienced the most difficult transitions of all. Going from 1 baby to 2 is typically (especially when there is not a huge age gap)the most difficult adjustment to make followed by having the first. Going from 2 to 3 or 3 to 4, is scary, but when the time comes, it is amazing at how much easier it is. You have experience now and you have little helpers, even if they are young. Enjoy this time because those babies grow so fast. Best wishes.