Change?

[Jojo]

What has changed for you since having a baby?

[PinkPaisley]

what hasn't changed is the question.. I guess just me time, i always feel like i look like trash.:sigh:

[Jojo]

what hasn't changed is the question.. I guess just me time, i always feel like i look like trash.:sigh:

:bluehug: I'm sure you look beautiful.

[Ashley]

Having sanity :hehe:

[Jojo]

Tears. I cry at everything. :rolleyes:

They were talking about the columbine shooting on GMA this morning and the mother of the boy who killed the kids was being quoted (she was interviewed through telephone) and my heart just felt so heavy for her. I can't imagine my child doing something like or having to live with that pain. Okay enough :blush:

Also, my nastiness. I guess I wouldn't consider it being nasty but I get so mad over little things. Especially things pertaining to my child or the way I parent. I guess that's normal though.

Oh and my skin! It's clear. Clearest it's ever been! I can go out without makeup now. Though I look better with I don't feel so bad leaving the house without!

I really need to stop talking so much :hehe:

[Ashley]

Oh I'm with you on the tears/worry thing, though that got worse after Tyler!! I think my anxiety spikes up here and there with things it didn't used to. Like flying. I used to love flying, especially by myself! It was peaceful, I'd spend the flight reading. The last time I flew, out to Vegas, I nearly had a nervous breakdown waiting to take off inside the plane. I kept thinking about the kids. I think it's the fear of something happening to them and/or me, and it really worries me at times. Mommy fear I gues!

[Jojo]

Oh I'm with you on the tears/worry thing, though that got worse after Tyler!! I think my anxiety spikes up here and there with things it didn't used to. Like flying. I used to love flying, especially by myself! It was peaceful, I'd spend the flight reading. The last time I flew, out to Vegas, I nearly had a nervous breakdown waiting to take off inside the plane. I kept thinking about the kids. I think it's the fear of something happening to them and/or me, and it really worries me at times. Mommy fear I gues!


yeah it's crazy! Now I feel bad for my mom and all those times I made fun of her. :hehe:

[Caitlin]

I'm an emotional biatch. :hehe:


Last night at work, a woman was telling me about her adoption story. She just picked him up from Kazakhstan 5 days ago and here she is sick as a dog already having someone babysit him for her. She was showing me pictures of him and telling me about the process she went through...I literally had tears in my eyes. She was like "oh, don't be sad!" HAHAHA. I'm pathetic now.

[Farah]

Libido and my me time. I am always feeling sub-par in my abilities as mom and wife and it depresses me at times.

[lilbunnygirl]

Holy crap, everything. I used to get regular facials and waxing, do my hair nice all the time, work out & diet, dress nice every day....all that is out the window. I haven't had the time or money to get a facial or my legs waxed since Cash was born, I've blown my hair dry maybe 5 times, now I just wash it and pin it up, to the point where Sean keeps asking me why I don't cut it since I never wear it down anymore. I just used to take a lot of time for myself, take nice long baths with Lush products a few times a week, and now I don't have much time for pampering myself at all. I get my nails done every 3 weeks and that's pretty much it.

We used to go to the movies at least once a week if not more, we've been to once movie alone since he was born. Only 3 dates.

I have a lot more sympathy for other parents, I used to think kids acting bad in public were victims of bad parenting. I used to think parents yelling at their kids in public were jerks. Ha!

I can't watch anything with a child in peril, I have to change the channel or leave the room. Even in a movie I've seen before where I know the baby is okay in the end, like in Cold Mountain where Natalie Portman is begging the soldiers to put a blanket over her baby outside and they won't do it, I can't watch that scene anymore.

On the up side, I'm a much nicer person. I see people through Cash's eyes, people who might look different or scary to me are unique and interesting to him & when we smile at them and they smile back, I can see beauty int hem I wouldn't have seen before. I take time to notice things that I'd become somewhat immune to, to me a tree is just a tree, a butterfly or a flower is not that thrilling, but to Cash it's an amazing discovery and I love re-discovering all the wonder of the world with him.

[Meshell]

I feel like I don't take care of myself anymore and I look like crap all the time. I had no libido for a while but I think that was mostly the mini pill. I think it also contributed to me being a witch all the time too. Since getting my cycles back my face has broke out with a fury like it never has before. Luckily I have a great esthetician to help with that.

[BabyLove08]

my sex drive is way down and I hate that! my weight is down, i'm losing my hair and I'm breaking out in spontanious hives! How's that for a mix of symptoms!! :hehe: Also been very irritable but I think alot of that has to do with my anxiety and these freakin hives!!! :angry: oh and i didn't have much patience before the baby but now that he is here is gets better every day ;)

[Jojo]

Well it sounds like all the typical mommy stuff :hehe: :grouphug2: