Motherhood Motherhood is surely interesting. I remember how unreal the thought was of having a baby and actually giving birth and being responsible for the life of a baby.
Last night, I went through all our old baby clothes and sorted them so I keep the ones I favoured and perhaps sell the others on ebay. What a memory ride that was. Even though I miss that special first moments, I do realize that every stage of parenthood has something special to it.
Travis has grown so much! He is babbling, pulling up on everything and he seems to have quite a temper. Some days I feel very frustrated as it seems that he has entered the terrible twos at the tender age of 10 months. But luckily that is only a mere 20% of the time. He is very strong willed...LOL.
I am hoping to get pregnant again. My husband wants to wait as he does not believe we can afford it financially and says he can't see himself loving another child so much. As for me, I do see how much Travis enjoyes to play with other kids and sometimes I feel bad to bring him home and there are no one to play with. We play with him as much as we can and he adores and giggles at everything that our dog Cody does :)
Anyhow, just want to put some thoughts down. I am hoping that I will be back here soon with a pregnant belly.
Love,
Judy
2007-01-18 (0 weeks)
Update on Travis Travis will be 9 months next Monday! So much about him has changed. He weighs 20 pounds and has 5 teeth. He is still teething and gets very frustrated with it sometimes.
He has developed the sweetest personality and I love to watch him play with others. Hi is a very sociable baby and loves kids.(who wouldn't)
He totaly shocked me on Sunday when he got onto his knees and started typing on the computer downstairs that is on the tv stand. That was when I realized that he is paying very close attention to what we are doing.
Love, Judy & Travis
2007-01-03 (0 weeks)
It's been a long time Hopefully I won't start every journal entry with...It's been a long time. But I have to admit that being a full time working Mom does keep one busy and extra time and beauty sleep is now a luxury! haha
Travis is now 8 months old and are an active crawler! I love to watch him play with his friends and the dogs. Oh, I just love him so much! We recently bought a house and moved just before Christmas. Boy, was that interesting for you. It is quite a challenge to move house with a little baby. If it was not for my husband who worked so hard, everything would still be in boxes! But we had a wonderful Christmas and New Years. For Christmas we waited till very late for Travis to open his gifts. He was not overly excited about opening his gifts. The only thing on his mind was....well....to be the booby man. It was late at night and usually what he wants that time of night is comfort and to be nursed to sleep. Yes, I know. It is bad. I nurse him to sleep. He is 8 months old and we still do it! He slept through the night until we moved into this new home and now it's like he gets scared and wakes up at 3 in the morning. He is then wide awake and won't go back to sleep unless he is in bed with me and daddy. He is growing up so fast now that I don't mind getting up anymore as I actually enjoy his dependancy on me. I know it won't be long until he is Mr. Independent.
He is talking so much now and so alert and active. He chases the poor dogs around the house in his walker!
The sad news is that because we moved house and to a different area, I have to move him to a different daycare. I'm handing them our week notice today and I am so sad about this. He loves the teachers at his daycare and I feel like a mean Mom to take him away from there, but I can not continue to do a 80minute commute to work every day.
I will update with some pictures a little later during the week.
All you fellow Mamas and to be Mamas...Happy New Year! God bless you and your families.
Love, Judy
2006-11-21 (0 weeks)
Reflections Travis is 7 months old today. It is hard to believe that so much time has passed since he has been born. So much has changed in our lives. Travis has grown so much, we have grown as a family and as individuals but most of all...we have grown closer to each other as a family.
It is quite an eye opener to look back over the past 7 months. We did not know what hit us when Travis was born. We were so excited, sleep deprived, happy, anxious and in love with our newborn. In the first three months...Travis had colic and acid reflux and was in constant pain. He cried a lot and I could not take him anywhere as he would cry and be uncomfortable. We started him on the prevacid tablets for acid reflux and that worked well with him.
After little Travis turned 3 months...things changed a whole lot. All of a sudden we had this happy baby and it was clear that the colic and acid reflux cleared up. How wonderfull! Travis started to give us little smiles and coos etc and were just doing the cutest little things.
Now he is 7 months, sitting up, smiling all the time, flirting with everyone, babbling on and on and on and just loves to cuddle and hug. Oh, I love him so much and can truly say that having him is the best thing ever!
I want to talk about something that is never talked about....HAIRLOSS. Not sure why, but this is something so common that women do not talk about and it is so important to know. I went through this. Let me start of with saying that I still have more than plenty of hair left and that things are back to normal again. Three and a half months after giving birth, I noticed that I was losing a lot of hair. My hair will come out in clumps and were all over the house. I dreaded washing my hair and thought that I was about to go bald. I searched the internet and found so many website blogs from women all over the world...thousands of women, talking about experiencing temporary hairloss after childbirth. I am going to quickly sum up the important facts you need to know.
Facts: 1. It does not affect all women so do not worry 2. It usually starts around 3 months after child birth and lasts for 3 months. 3. This can be the result of two things.... your body going through a major shock....and...your hormone levels returning back to normal. 4. Why only after 3 months. Each hair cycle takes about 3 months. 5. You should not have any bald spots but just overall thinning. 6. If you are still losing a great amount of hair 7 months after childbirth, go see your doctor and have your thyroid checked. 7. This condition is called tellogen effluvium.
I did not want to talk about this earlier as it is a very embarrasing thing for a woman to go through. Only now that things are back to normal can I talk about it. If any of you would like to share your thoughts on this or if you are experiencing the same thing...please write to me at judith_pelser@yahoo.co.uk.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all.
Enjoy your babies and pregnancies. Time goes by so fast. Life is truly a gift.
