Last nite had our antenatal class. Watched a video of a Father looking after his newborn baby girl. It made it more real to me...if the baby knew just how inexperienced her Father was, how it was just as new for him as it was her....how much he was making it up as he went along...i doubt she would have come out of her mother's womb.
Our baby is going to turn my world upside down. No longer will I be spending my days alone. I will have this permanent companion with me every moment of my day. My day will revolve around our baby. Feeding, clothing, bathing, entertaining him, and washing everything he spews or pees on, or dirties during the day.
I am about to go from one extreme to the other...and this will be my life for the next few years. Next year I'm doing it all over again except with the added responsibility of looking after a little boy at the same time. Two children under 2 is going to be one crazy fulltime job.
I will be just like that Father in the video, making it up as I go along. Sure I would have done classes, read books, but these all go out the window when faced with a baby who's only means of communicating with you is crying. Hungry, tired, wet or sick - they cry.
Everyone thinks Myles and I are going to be great parents. What if we suck??? What if we end up raising brats from hell that we can't control or even worse can't love???
Oh well, we can always send them to their grandmothers in New Zealand :-)
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