The last few weeks have been so hectic. I was working 2 jobs like crazy preparing for baby girls first beach trip. After the trip, I came home and jumped right back into mom mode, cleaning the house, and preparing for guests. We had her party, and the week after I had many yoga events. Now the dust has settled a bit and I have some time to reflect. I wanted to acknowledge my momiversary!
We celebrate the baby, but moms needs celebrating too, especially new moms. Going thru things for the first time can be scary and overwhelming, but also fun and exciting. I found myself wondering, why didn't my friends tell me about this? I wonder how they handled that? Is this normal?
So many things don't get talked about when it comes to having a baby. On top of all the regular postpartum struggles, sleepless nights and figuring out my new baby, I had other things to overcome.
2 months postpartum I was in a hit and run accident leaving me with a few injuries. It hurt to hold my baby for the first week I was healing. After that, I had residual hip pain that I still deal with today. I have a little PTSD when I'm driving and someone tries to get over. It took a while to feel comfortable behind the wheel again.
When baby girl was 7 months, my husband had a Stroke. This left him out of work for 4 months as he recovered and healed. It left me taking care of both of them and our household. Glory to God, he has made a full recovery and has returned back to work part time. But honey! It has been rough! It was hard being mama, employee, entrepreneur, wife, housekeeper, cook, driver and more. Events I had planned had to go on. In fact, I needed the income even more. Baby girl was still not sleeping , so I'd have to tend to her before waking up at 6 to pick up a shift at the hospital. I was stretched a lot and some days I don't know how I made it. We also found out Sammie most likely has a medical condition called Sarcoidosis and we are going thru testing and appointments to find out more. The journey is not over, but I'm hopeful we will get thru it. I'm blessed that I was able to still take care of my family and my husband and baby girl didn't go without.
And now everybody is alive and well! Lol. It’s been one hell of a year! Hopefully next year will be less eventful in stressful ways and more eventful with the fun! Happy Birthday to my baby girl and Happy Momiversary to me!
