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Life After Your First Baby!

I have been meaning to write this article like forever and I am sure I will not complete this today but here's a start.

Back when I decided to get pregnant with my husband, I thought I knew what I was getting into.
But on looking back at it now,  I realize how clueless I really was. Especially on how having a baby was going to change every single aspect and relationship in my life. Be it your career, social life, definition of happiness or your relationship with your colleagues, friends, relatives and also your husband, it was all going to change. Some for the better and some for the worse. And the ones for the worse may not really matter much when compared to the things that got better. You know, my priorities and the way I value each thing in my life was going to change!

When I start to think about it, there was no real way for me to be prepared for all these changes. No one really tells you about it anyways. 
  • Parents are basically telling you to have a baby while never sharing what it really means to have a baby. 
  • Veteran moms are busy telling you how messy your house will turn, how you are in for the crazy sleepless nights, poopy diapers etc.
  • Friends are basically sharing those 'Mommy love is priceless' quotes and pictures on Facebook and other social networks.
So let me begin by sharing a few things that a yet to be mom will most likely not see coming.

Meeting the love of your life!
You are going to be hopelessly in love with this little human being about to enter your life. My daughter is 18 months now and I still am so madly in love with her like I met her yesterday. So at this point, I have given up ever recovering from this love bug that hit me super hard without even me realizing it for a very long time. This love will dictate a lot of things in your life going forward. Your career ambitions, relation with relatives and with your dear husband too! In my humble opinion, it just does not matter if you are a working mom, stay at home mom, breastfeeding, formula feeding, normal delivery mom, c-section mom or any other category the world has come up with, you are a person who turned into a mom one beautiful day and will never go back to what you were before that. You will be amazed at your energy, patience and love, oh the love when it comes to your little munchkin. It can be quite overwhelming at times which is why I said the relationship with your spouse will be put to test as well;)

More to come...






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