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A Mommy's World
Being 25 years old, newly married and finding out that you got pregnant on your wedding night. This was me about 3 years ago.
All was well and good til I was 25 weeks along and ended up having an emergency C-section. Giving birth to a 1lb. 12.6 oz baby girl who was 12 1/4 inches long will test anyone's inner strength. I soon found out that my little girl was one of the strongest people that I would ever meet.
Being born 15 weeks early and so small were not the only issues we would see, She was born with amiotic band syndrome and Adams Oliver Syndrome. Being a 25yrs old first time mom, I was dumb founded.
My baby girl was 14 hours old before I even got to see her. My husband and my mother got to go to the NICU and see her before I did because I had a spinal block for the C-section.
I was brought a picture of her before I got to go up and see her, the nurse said that was to prepare me for what I was going to see.
In a picture of my newborn baby I see that her right leg below her knee is missing. The first thing that I thought of was that is fixable. I was more concerned with her lungs that were not yet developed and that she could not take a breath alone and the fact that she was so small that a diaper that was the size of a deck of playing cards seemed to swallow her.
A lot of people were suprised that a young 1st time mommy was not bothered by the fact that her baby was born without a full leg. After so many struggles and 99 days in the NICU when you get to take the most perfect little bundle of joy in the world home for the first time, It really shows you how strong you are and that you can withstand anything that is brought upon you.
Renee' mommy of 2
A Mommy's World
Recently my 2 1/2 year old daughter is completely obcessed with her own and everyone else's butts, and will vocalize it to anyone.
Yesterday we were at my mother-in-laws house. My mother-in-law went into the bathroom to take a bath after working outside in 100+ degree weather. My 2 1/2 year old busts in the bathroom door and looks at her grandma and says " Man, Grandma you have a hairy butt."
Of course at 2 1/2 we are doing the potty training thing and she walks around telling everyone that she poops, farts, and pees in her butt. How do you explain to a child that age the difference of what comes from where and that it comes out of and not into areas.
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