NEW MOM EMOTION
You Are Not Alone with
Your Feelings
New motherhood is a heady time full of unfamiliar new mom emotion, feelings and new mother
thoughts. Mother hood itself is both a challenge and utterly awesome. Add hormones to the mix and
your new mother thoughts can easily run away without you.
Once out of the recovery room, your baby is brought to you either to feed or just because. Meeting her baby for the first
time, after childbirth feelings and can overwhelm the new mom. The realization dawns on her just how truly
miraculous the birth concept is. Staring into her baby's face, seeing their tiny hands and feet, the new mom begin
to understand there's a new person in your life.
During the nine months you carried this little person, you may have wondered who they might turn out to be. Will they
have their fathers ears, your eyes and whose mouth will they have? Their eyes look into your face, trusting and innocent and you
know, without a shred of doubt, that you will do whatever it takes to keep this baby safe, no matter how old they get. The first few
minutes you spend with your new baby opens up a world you never knew existed.
A Word on New Mother Health
Making sure the new mother's health is on the right track is essential to the first few months after
childbirth. Resting frequently and getting plenty of sleep is one of a new moms challenges. Secondary to the care of
the newborn, it is the job of everyone around the new mother to help with the new baby, household chores and cooking
to allow new mom plenty of sleep and rest time. Lack of sleep can be a major contributor to depression for new mom sadness,
but most importantly for a new mom.
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The love that begins to blossom inside your chest when you first lay your eyes on your new baby is nothing like you have ever
before experienced. It's a love full of wonderment, hope and awe. Throughout the next few months of physical healing, two a.m feedings,
interrupted sleep and all the other new mother stressors, one look into that beautiful baby's face is all it takes to get things back into
perspective. A whole new set of priorities come into play. No longer in the 'me mode', you're instantly transported into the 'us mode',
where everything you do in life is to the betterment of your child. Not a bad place to be if you're ready for this change. To turn your
focus on someone else for once in your life may be a new thing for a lot of new mothers in this day of the entitlement generation. They may
come to find that this is what makes them the happiest.
No one will ever say its the easiest time ever, but it certainly is the most rewarding. You have been charged with
bringing this child into adult hood. A heavy challenge, for sure, but with patience and graciousness you can do the right thing
for your child. It's all about choices and making the right choices isn't hard when you're making them for the right
reasons.
Best to you and yours.
~ New Motherhood
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