A Day of Discoveries
by Nola
Having a small baby has its benefits. My wedding and engagement rings fit again and I even was able to fit into a pair of non-maternity pants today. These pants are usually a tad too big for me and today they were tight, but I got them to zip up and I actually wore them out of the house!! It gives me hope that I may actually one day return to my pre-pregnancy clothes.
Today was also the day I decided that my bedsheets had to be washed. We put clean sheets on the bed on Monday and I promptly spilled breast milk all over them (who knew pumping required such skill?!). After three days, I’d had enough. Pre-pregnancy, the sheets would have been cleaned the day of the spill; now, I have learned it will take three days for me to work up the energy to clean them. Good to know. And a shower? Yep; three days there too. Apparently I have some three-day cleanliness thing that I did not know about until I became a new mother.
And finally, today is the day that Sun started to smile even when she wasn’t taking a poop.
Before I went on maternity leave, I actually had the naïveté to tell my sister I would use the “time off from work” to research for that law review article I kept thinking of. She set me straight and explained that some days, your list of things to do is “1. Take a shower. 2. Do laundry.” And you consider it a good day if you actually get #1 accomplished.
You are living it. It never goes back to the way it was, but it gets better.
And the trade off is SO worth it.
there IS light at the end of the tunnel! (and by tunnel, I mean birth… bad joke, I know). glad to hear you’re having a GOOD day!