A Look Back - Part 2 - or not

I have decided that as much as I wanted to make the first few posts a "catch-up" from the last 2 years, a journal of sorts, something I can look back on with my kids someday and remember the important moments of my life... I kind of want to move on to other things. I'm already bored with typing/reading about my own life!

 

I will jump ahead to now...this is where my story gets really fun...in my opinion anyway

 

Our son

 

Makes your heart melt, right? These amazing pictures were taken by one of our very good friends, Courtney Rose.

 

His name is Brody Ray Lowder

(aka, "Boog"...not as in booger, just boog. The hubs started calling him that and it stuck...poor kid)

 

He was two weeks old when we had these pictures taken. I was still brand new at the whole mom thing. I'm still new at it, but it is MUCH easier a few months in. That first month or two was hard(understatement of the year). So very, very worth it, but also hard.

 

It was extremely scary, because I didn't know the first thing about newborns! Sure, I've held one or two in my life, but I handed them back, usually when they started crying. This time, I'M the one the baby gets handed back to when it cries...
I don't know what to do!! Why are you giving him to me?!?!
 

 

As the weeks went on, I became more relaxed (aka, less hormonal) I began to learn my baby. What he likes, doesn't like, his schedule, etc. It became a challenge for me to figure him out. Kind of a game. I Googled everything you can imagine. I found that the "mom chat sites" were my favorite place to go when I had a question. I didn't sign up for them, I would just ask Google a question like "why does my baby spit up so much" or "when will my 3 month old stop spitting up!" and it would pull up tons of links. Usually the first few were mom chat sites and this same question had been asked by a women (or man) and all of these moms would respond with their advice and experiences.
 

 

I know some moms don't want to hear the advice of random women, but I found it very comforting to read all of the responses to a question. Even if there wasn't a clear answer from any of them (which there usually was), I still found comfort in knowing all of these women had gone, or were going through the same exact thing.

I wasn't alone in this.
Also, there are some very interesting people out there, with some very interesting parenting techniques, so it can be a form of entertainment if not educational. (warning: it can also be very frustrating at times. Sometimes you just want to reach through the computer and slap people)

 

Anyway, I Googled, I read books (I highly recommend "Baby Wise" and "Solve You Child's Sleep Problems" we are strong believers in the "cry it out" method) I did far more "research" in the first 2 months of his life, than I've ever done in my 28...ok, 31 years. It became kind of an addiction. I now have a head full of random knowledge, but it comes in handy at times.

 

I would like to do a post in the next couple of weeks on some of the details of my experience so far.

I absolutely LOVED reading blogs of other moms, what they did, what worked, didn't work, etc. Maybe it will be helpful to someone.

 

 

I'm loving every minute of being a mom. Even the hard moments are wonderful in one way or another. I know this is what I was called to be. There will be other things I do in life, but this is by far the tops. Right up there with being a wife to the hubs. Anything else I do or become, will be second to this (and God of course ; )

 

This may become more of a mom blog...

 

Who knows what this will become!

 

Kisses for Mimi

The whole fam!