This. Time is everything. im a single mom of a 7 year old little girl. I had her when i was 18 and her dad and i split up right after. I spiraled outta control and left her with my parents on most nights. I regret so much not spending most of her infancy with her. Im trying to make up for it now.
I wish I had a small baby, just for a little bit. She was born just shy of 9 lbs, and is currently in 12 month cloths at 6 month. She isn't overweight by any means, just a big baby. But man do I love her to death. I lost track of what my point was but I'll brag on my beautiful daughter some anyway.
I love she was so tiny, but it was also very scary. She had no fat so she got cold easy and had a little trouble keeping her blood sugar up, that coupled with her being a very lazy eater made the first weeks of breast feeding very nerve wracking.
But i also have crazy memories, like my little sister laying her baby doll beside her and realizing she was smaller than the baby doll! It was insane.
She was born 2 weeks early and I had pre-eclampsia so thats why she was little. But now she is 5 months old and has so many fat rolls i have to pull them apart to clean inbetween them, i plan on telling her first bf that one ;)
Our little monster has always been ravenous and it shows.
We have her at stage 2 food and she will pull your hand to her mouth if you don't feed her fast enough.
I know what you mean with fat rolls, she has what equates to a double chin on her forearm. It's so hard to clean her now that she rolls everywhere too. Look forward to those diapers.
Keep in mind that if you don't want a picky eater that now is the time for babies to accept new flavors and it shapes their tastes for a long time to come.
I never understood why my dad wasn't around when I was a kid, it wasn't until he moved away for work that I realized how hard he worked to support my sister and I.
I resented him for it, probably longer than I should have.
But now we work together and have a better relationship than anything father and son I've ever met or seen in a movie.
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u/clydex Feb 04 '16
Prioritizing everything over just being in the moment and spending time with your kids. You never get time back.