I shared this with a special group of online sisters this evening, but decided I’d like to share it with my readers as well.
I’ve decided when my babies hit about 4 months old is when they begin to get much easier! We’ve plugged along through our nursing issues, I think our baby girl is doing much better, and I don’t feel like a milking machine anymore now that she’s stretched out her waking hour nursings to about 3 hours like clockwork on her own.
Once she seemed to be gaining to me I just let her fall into her own pattern as long as she didn’t go longer than that. At this point though there is little chance of that! This morning I nursed her at 8am and we got ready for church and headed out, then back home for the other group, then back to church and she was happy and content the entire time. She’s also given up her pacifier I think so no need to bother trying anymore…anytime you try to give it to her, say if I’m in the car and she starts to fuss, she sucks once or twice then grins like she’s saying…”You can’t fool me mama, so I’ll get happier for ‘ya and wait for the real deal!”
She fell asleep in the car seat during the second trip and stayed that way during the Sunday school hour. As we were starting the morning service it was about 10:55 and I mentioned to our oldest daughter that the baby will be awake in 5 minutes. She was awake in 3 and ready to eat!
For the first 4 months it feels like all I am doing round and round the clock is nursing and changing diapers and I probably am but one minute slips into another and then the hour slips into another and one day into the next and you just keep plugging along to get through it.
Sometimes that isn’t so much fun and it’s hard to just “enjoy” the babies once you are out of the “first few weeks then you feel like you should be up doing other things” period, but it’s a necessary thing.
As I was nursing her to sleep tonight…she was just gazing into my eyes, and every time I would smile at her she would smile back and loose her latch and we’d have to start all over again. We’d repeat the process over and over because I just couldn’t stop smiling at her. She doesn’t just smile in her face but her whole body lights up it seems. I so enjoy her presence in our home and her daddy and siblings will tell you the same. Each new baby changes the entire dynamic of the home, and it’s an adjustment, but when we work together as a family to make those adjustments, we reap the blessings and joy soon enough!
As she finished up I lifted her to my face, smooched her ever so slightly chubby cheeks and said I love you SO MUCH, but Jesus loves you more than I ever could! Then as I drew her away she again looked at me and smiled as if she was saying…”and I love you both Mama!”
Lord, never let me forget these special moments and my prayer is that she loves You someday much more than she loves me. I want YOU to be her Everything!
Blessings,Dawn











