being a mom
Im reading the novel, THE WEDDING by Nicholas Sparks and I have to agree to one of the paragraphs there about the character's marriage.
There's a common lament that the first year of marriage is the hardest, but for Jane and myself, this was not true. Nor was the seventh year, the year of the supposed itch, the most difficult.
The most challenging years were those that followed the birth of our children.
My wife still refers to that period as "the hateful years".
There were moments when she hated practically everything. She hated how she looked and how she felt. She hated women whose breasts didn't ache and women who still fit into their clothes. She hated how oily her skin became and hated the pimples that appeared for the first time since adolescence. But it was the lack of sleep that raised her ire most of all, and consequently, nothing irritated her more than hearing stories of other mothers whose infants slept through the night within weeks of leaving the hospital.
Do I need to say more? :)
Taking from my own experience, my husband and I never had a fight that lasted for 24 hours when we were stil bf/gf. When we would have LQ during the day, it will surely end at night. Coz most of the time, I would go home and he would call out from my bedroom window so we could talk and our fight ended there.
But when Rafa came to our lives, especially from the time we got out from the hospital up to until he's 1 or 2 months old, we would always argue on who's going to wake up in the middle of the night to feed baby Rafa. Both of us had been patient with the situation, but I guess when you don't have a lot of sleep, you can't help but be hiblood. There was also a time when we didn't even had an argument but we would have dinner together and won't talk to each other. We both can't sleep through the night and we'd wake up at 6am to bring Rafa out coz he needs sunshine.
These are few of the things that one would go through for a having a child....wheeew!!!
But now that Rafa is 5 months old and he can already see you, talk to you, laugh at you....everything is all worth it!
Bow!