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So when these beautiful gifts from God, come home from the hospital and everyone leaves you and dad to get settled with your new love, now what? What if you can't do it? What if you drop him? What if you over sleep and she starves? What if I screw it all up?
My biggest concern with my first born was not living in our own place, my in-laws house was cramped and they both worked. What if I couldn't get him to go to bed or he was gassy all night and they had to hear a baby cry all night long? Would they be mad at me for having to go to work with no sleep? Would they try to take over and then me resent them for trying to tell me how to raise my child? Haha at a week old yes that was going through my head.
I was blessed at the time of my first sons birth, to have two parents that had a little more room for us. They had baby things already there because they babysat for my sister`s young children. And of course, no offense to my MIL at the time, but I needed my momma. It was beautiful the first couple of nights seeing how upset I got every time I couldn't calm him down, my mom would just see it in my face and would scoop him up and walk into the living room, humming a Sunday hymn and would rock him. With in a couple of minutes he would be knocked out. It was nothing short of me witnessing a small glimpse of perhaps what my mom looked like when she rocked me, the 21 years before.
As I watched her, my confidence grew. I knew I had to learn patience just as my baby boy needed to learn how to be in his new surroundings. The Lord was so close with me those first few weeks being at their house and my mom gave me the confidence to become a mom myself. She helped me when the next two entered into the world also. Each time she never left my side. The Lord has blessed me with not only three amazing and beautiful little men, but the most awesome teacher of love and peace and patience.
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