When J and I decided to start trying for a baby we thought it was going to take awhile, it didn't. We hit it out of the park on the first pitch (a little baseball analogy because it's summer). So all our plans of really saving our money for a year went out the window.
I worked 8 hours because I couldn't stay to help with emergencies, My Saturdays became a thing of the past because what good is a technician that can't take X-rays. We had 9 months to save for a baby and an unpaid maternity leave.
My perception of having a kid and the reality of actually being pregnant and having a child were way off.
I thought because J and I had no car payments and very little debt that we could continue the life we had before of eating out and buying what we wanted. The reality of it is we live paycheck to paycheck and have to ration our gas to make it to the next week. I had to go back to work part time because by the time you figured childcare and gas into the equation I''d be working just to pay for childcare. What sense does that make.
And sleep, showering regularly or eating a hot meal. Forget about it! People tell you this is going to happen, but you don't really get the actual reality of it until it happens.
I thought I was going to have this cute cuddly little baby who would lay quietly while I looked upon her. I got the cute and cuddly It took almost 8 weeks to get over the screaming demon child from 4p-7p.
I thought breastfeeding would be this easy beautiful thing. In the beginning it was also emotionally draining, sometimes painful, and a steep learning curve. I am so glad I stuck with it because it got so much easier and I would be lost without it now.
So the perception and reality of children is really different and you don't really get it I think till you go through it.
Having kids is hard ,which any parent will tell you, you give up a lot for your children and your life will never be the same.
But I wouldn't give it up for anything!
I worked 8 hours because I couldn't stay to help with emergencies, My Saturdays became a thing of the past because what good is a technician that can't take X-rays. We had 9 months to save for a baby and an unpaid maternity leave.
My perception of having a kid and the reality of actually being pregnant and having a child were way off.
I thought because J and I had no car payments and very little debt that we could continue the life we had before of eating out and buying what we wanted. The reality of it is we live paycheck to paycheck and have to ration our gas to make it to the next week. I had to go back to work part time because by the time you figured childcare and gas into the equation I''d be working just to pay for childcare. What sense does that make.
And sleep, showering regularly or eating a hot meal. Forget about it! People tell you this is going to happen, but you don't really get the actual reality of it until it happens.
I thought I was going to have this cute cuddly little baby who would lay quietly while I looked upon her. I got the cute and cuddly It took almost 8 weeks to get over the screaming demon child from 4p-7p.
I thought breastfeeding would be this easy beautiful thing. In the beginning it was also emotionally draining, sometimes painful, and a steep learning curve. I am so glad I stuck with it because it got so much easier and I would be lost without it now.
So the perception and reality of children is really different and you don't really get it I think till you go through it.
Having kids is hard ,which any parent will tell you, you give up a lot for your children and your life will never be the same.
But I wouldn't give it up for anything!
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