Newborn babies are real cuties, they are amazing, smell delicious and look like angels when they sleep. And when they hug you – it’s a delight! But let’s be objective: the appearance of a baby in the house makes impressive adjustments to the usual way of life. There are, of course, babies who sleep, eat and relieve their natural needs as scheduled. Maybe there is. But, as a rule, newborns live according to their own, unique routine. How does this threaten young mothers?
1. Even if you are a great expert at making lists and tightly controlling your daily routine, you should forget about it. You may be able to watch a couple of new movies (with thirty pauses) or read a book that has long been laid eyes on (half a page at a time). But that’s all! Seriously!
2. You will start spending such a good amount on “all the best for the baby” – pacifiers, bottles, rattles of all varieties and colors. As a result, it turns out that the very first thing you offer him will suit the baby, and the rest will have to be given away to the girlfriends.
3. It will become a habit to constantly sway from side to side and shake your hands in a lulling rhythm. It doesn’t matter if you have a child in your arms or not. It will be such a natural state that you will even stop noticing that you are swinging. But you will look cute in the queue, for example. And the muscles on the arms will appear.
4. You will start reciting odes to those amazing people who invented diapers and wet wipes. By the way, you will have napkins on every shelf, in every pocket. This is salvation, honestly.
5. If you spent hours on mom’s websites and forums before giving birth, you will stop doing this soon after the baby appears. First, your baby is undoubtedly unique, and general advice does not work for him (this is the conclusion most moms come to). Secondly, you will see that if you collect all the recommendations in one pile, they will mostly contradict each other. Thirdly, you simply will not have time left for this, you will have to comprehend everything in practice.
6. By the way, you will understand that the watch is a completely unnecessary accessory. Time for the kids. Soon you will too. In addition, a watch is an expensive, scratching and breakable object, so you understand.
7. Wash – every day. Mopping the floor every day. Dust off – every day. Several times a day. Are you an obsessive neat? No, you’re just a baby’s mom.
8. You will seriously begin to master the technique of silent movement of the ninja. If earlier you did not pay attention to creaky floors, now there is a significant reason for this – a calm sleep of a baby. We’ll have to remember where each floorboard that makes sounds is located, and everything that can inadvertently hit “during the escape” will be hidden deeper. Most likely, you will train your pets to communicate with gestures, so that Their Highness does not wake up ahead of time.
9. Your dream will now be … Well, it will hardly be there. Night feeding and subsequent motion sickness occurs several times during the night, then the same thing – during the day. This is to the question of the clock and time: whether it is day or night – all the same, all the same … You will only be annoyed by the sight of a peacefully snoring spouse, while you only dream of peace. It is not forbidden to arrange an easy revenge and quietly whisper in the ear of the faithful quotes from his favorite films. I wonder what he will see in a dream?
קסנומקס. When choosing purchases in the store, you will now read all the instructions and formulations and try on the child: is it suitable, does it harm, how many vitamins and other benefits it contains. Soap, washing powder, even bottled water will only be marked 0+.
קסנומקס. Did you get by with a handbag that only held lipstick, a phone, and a wallet? Everything, forget! You will constantly have to carry with you a travel bag, equipped with all the necessary baby gadgets at once: nipples, diapers, dry and wet wipes, powders, rattles, spare clothes and even a blanket. Who knows what will happen in those 15 minutes that you and your baby spend on a bread hike? And yes, there will be plenty of walks, so get in the habit of wearing sunglasses.
קסנומקס. You will realize that there are many more dangers in your usual habitat than it seems. You will begin to hide all stabbing, cutting, sharp, scratching objects, as well as too fluffy, too cold and too hot, heavy, falling, unstable, banging and easily breaking – in general, almost everything. Now even a manicure is dangerous, because you can accidentally touch the delicate skin of a baby.
קסנומקס. Perhaps you loved to devote a lot of time to cooking and gladly served a three-course dinner for your husband, and then calmly devoured it all together. We’ll have to give up this habit for a while. The spouse will increasingly eat alone, and you will eat in fits and starts. But you will appreciate what a thrill it is to drink tea at 2 am in silence.
קסנומקס. Bubble bath … One can only dream. Even a 5-minute shower is a luxury, because so what if you fed and lulled the child? And he took it and woke up. And daddy has not yet fully understood what to do in this case. And now they are standing together under the bathroom door and yelling. So rinse off the shampoo and go to the battlefield.
קסנומקס. Finally, you will get used to being hugged all the time. In words, it’s great, but in reality, at best, you will have only one free hand, which you will learn to use so skillfully that a magician, a chef and a commando will immediately envy you. Your reaction will also be simply amazing, this is guaranteed.
This was news to think about. And now it’s good: the first months after the birth of a child will not last forever. Even though it will seem so to you. So let yourself be a happy mom. The most important thing to learn is to enjoy the good moments, there will be plenty of them.
And do not forget to laugh, best of all – together with the little man for whom you are opening the world.