Naptime Blog

I can’t believe my baby is 8 months old already. Friends always tell me the first year goes by quickly. As I watched him playing last night I remembered the first time I laid eyes on him. I didn’t get to see him when he was first born, due to an emergency c-section. I did get to see him a few hours later as strange as it sounds I didn’t feel connected to him. I asked the nurse about it and she said many new Moms feel that way, especially c-section moms. I got to see him for 10 minutes and then they took him for the next 24 hours. It wasn’t until a few days later when we were home that I looked down at him and truly felt he was mine. He looked up at me and I connected, I have never told anyone that before.

I felt it was important for new Moms to know, my best friend just had her third child. She had complications and at our hospital we don’t have a neonatal care unit. Lisa’s daughter was flown to Johns Hopkins, while she stayed at our local hospital. It has now been a week and Lisa is out of the hospital and on her way to be with her daughter. Lisa called me on the way crying because she said she feels like she is going to see a stranger, this baby she doesn’t know. Lisa’s husband has been with the baby, so that has caused her some inner turmoil also. I told her to wait and it would happen. I asked my mother who didn’t get to bring my twin sister and I home right away when she felt it. She said honestly you didn’t feel like mine until you were close to five months. My Mom thinks it’s because even when she went to see us she had to follow someone else’s rules. I will leave you with two pictures of my little man. One from when he was born and one from his 8 month birthday. Pardon the mess in my living room, some how it always looks like toys r us threw a bunch of toys all around. I am constantly picking up

-Chrystal