tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669762298855511295.post8977177316146271805..comments2023-08-10T08:24:08.460-06:00Comments on Mama Needs Coffee: New Baby, New MomJennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07923751596148085363noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669762298855511295.post-52630223651571033132014-08-05T17:51:10.577-06:002014-08-05T17:51:10.577-06:00BAHAHAHA--least he need my bosom!!!!! I love this ...BAHAHAHA--least he need my bosom!!!!! I love this and love you. I too slapped away death by ice cream from my father with our firstborn at 11 months, "Dad, THAT's SUGAR!!!!" I'm still a stickler about some things, but so many others have fallen by the wayside. What really matters stays; what was an idyllic first time parent maneuver is gone!Nell @ Whole Parenting Familyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18191618874497967241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669762298855511295.post-29254062985083270452014-07-09T21:06:56.666-06:002014-07-09T21:06:56.666-06:00Love this!!! I can relate on so many levels!
And b...Love this!!! I can relate on so many levels!<br />And batting away the spoon/nut allergy - OMG too hilarious!!amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08042196441402705907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669762298855511295.post-39749889061226595242014-07-07T15:04:26.554-06:002014-07-07T15:04:26.554-06:00Such a good post! We're expecting our first ne...Such a good post! We're expecting our first next month and less than 48 hours ago I was panicking about being a first-time mom. Your words are uber reassuring. So excited!Justine Rauchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10703910765667551894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669762298855511295.post-16352352883647413962014-07-05T22:37:20.087-06:002014-07-05T22:37:20.087-06:00Great post! I love thinking back on how much my mo...Great post! I love thinking back on how much my mothering has changed from the first year or two of my oldest son's life... I am so much better off now that the perfectionist, control freak, first-time mother in me has been left in the dust.Nataliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00506664564051293202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669762298855511295.post-24348705363835357092014-07-03T11:28:14.417-06:002014-07-03T11:28:14.417-06:00Such an excellent post, and so true. Yesterday, I...Such an excellent post, and so true. Yesterday, I was having this sort of zen moment with the kids, and realized, "hey - I'm really coming into my own as a mother. I've *got* this." And yeah, my third baby is such a dream as well!Christinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00662784804825998751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669762298855511295.post-35518777170609313262014-07-03T09:03:48.725-06:002014-07-03T09:03:48.725-06:00I freakin love this! Just wait until you get to nu...I freakin love this! Just wait until you get to number 9!!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17079046874308527129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669762298855511295.post-31132449566106232662014-07-02T20:47:42.900-06:002014-07-02T20:47:42.900-06:00A.Men.A.Men.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03691072328903638486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669762298855511295.post-74961218490262226862014-07-02T17:14:36.446-06:002014-07-02T17:14:36.446-06:00Oh isn't this the truth?! Well said :)Oh isn't this the truth?! Well said :)Valeriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03011414940412270952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669762298855511295.post-81235092944788997552014-07-02T14:29:34.681-06:002014-07-02T14:29:34.681-06:00I hadn't really thought of myself as a differe...I hadn't really thought of myself as a different mother this go-round until now. (You're right though -- I guess we can't help but mother differently once we've been through it a couple of times.) In my case, it's not so much about going from freaking out at every little thing to not freaking out, because I'm somebody who would insist that everything is fine! we're FINE! even as the walls crumbled around me. I just don't tend to freak out. (Which does sometimes make me worry that I'd miss something important.) <br /><br />But. With my first I felt guilty and worn down all the time. I felt like I could never do enough, never get it quite right. His crying was like a weight, pulling me downward. I was feeling low, low, low. This time, while I have my bad days, I don't feel compelled to get everything right. I know I can't be everything to everyone, and I'm fine with that. So Isaac's crying doesn't get to me like Breck's did. I know that babies cry -- they just do! Now, though I'm probably more of a neglectful mother then I was way back then, I feel SO much less guilt. If everybody has a reasonably clean bottom and a relatively full tummy, we're fine. Really fine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669762298855511295.post-62811551927105331772014-07-02T14:26:42.126-06:002014-07-02T14:26:42.126-06:00Yes, my friend. Yes.Yes, my friend. Yes.Blythe Fikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01083711888523698156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669762298855511295.post-89484749019012714552014-07-02T14:08:10.527-06:002014-07-02T14:08:10.527-06:00I love this!I love this!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669762298855511295.post-71378159528323458452014-07-02T14:00:53.563-06:002014-07-02T14:00:53.563-06:00My sister and I laugh about this very thing all th...My sister and I laugh about this very thing all the time. We had our "firsts" and our "seconds" together. And then our "thirds" came along a little bit apart. Our first borns never saw the inside of a fast food place until they were WELL into toddler-hood, and then only on very special, supervised occasions. My second gnawed on a French fry at about 7 months. By the time the 3rd came along, I was a professional and weathered my husband's 9 months deployment (two weeks after the baby was born) like nobody's business! I always tell younger mothers who are pregnant with their 2nd that they will look back at their "first-time mom" self and laugh at that stupid girl!!Krishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02999838147173390906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669762298855511295.post-39939132972756398172014-07-02T13:24:03.337-06:002014-07-02T13:24:03.337-06:00I love this!! I only have two, but watching my fri...I love this!! I only have two, but watching my friends and their first born makes me giggle at how sanitized, by the bookish, no table food, on a developmental time table we were with our first! Baby number two has turned out just fine so far, and I can only image if/when baby three happens how much better it gets ;) <br /><br />Ps-love the disclaimer!! That third margarita gets me every time! ;) ha!Lilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18190917679880418260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669762298855511295.post-63777925695960231402014-07-02T12:25:59.968-06:002014-07-02T12:25:59.968-06:00This is great! I was that girl too with the cart c...This is great! I was that girl too with the cart cover... Now my 7month baby rides on the handles of the cart while her brother (4) and sister (2) "drive"Anahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07957027027456215552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669762298855511295.post-18945567137841127572014-07-02T12:16:07.766-06:002014-07-02T12:16:07.766-06:00"My hands were just as full when my car held ..."My hands were just as full when my car held only one car seat. It's my heart and my brain that have enlarged now, and there's more room for error, more room for fun, and more room for patience to manage the additional children you see." BRILLIANT!!!Mitzihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13058758507978295767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669762298855511295.post-33735909057494417212014-07-02T10:54:21.762-06:002014-07-02T10:54:21.762-06:00Haha!! I used to put newborn Abigail on the video ...Haha!! I used to put newborn Abigail on the video monitor every time I went to the bathroom! Hollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00126027908812186013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669762298855511295.post-64295159268267622112014-07-02T10:37:32.046-06:002014-07-02T10:37:32.046-06:00As I read this I glanced out into the backyard to ...As I read this I glanced out into the backyard to see my 5 kids playing, the oldest (9) was making a bow and arrows out of a stick for the youngest (1) who was happily eating sand in the sandbox. 8 years ago I would have thought "horror and worms and eyes being poked out and BLOOD!!" Today, I thought "awesome, they're playing together" all that to say, you are so very right! the DeLislandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13614431328444811966noreply@blogger.com