Lessons Learned Part One

Yes part one. Because i know I'm going to learn quite a lot of lessons.

Lesson no 1: your baby will be most active when you are maximum tired. When your arms feel like they are going to drop off from their sockets and you can't take a step more, your baby will want to play and smile and coo at you.

Lesson no 2: when your house is at its untidiest worst, ALL the guests in the world will drop in. Unexpectedly! Yea this ones true. When your house is super untidy, when just about every outfit you own is lying out of the closet, when the house looks disaster hit, THAT'S that's when someone will pop in for a quick visit.
(Most likely the person who drops in at such a time is a cleanliness freak. Or else that aunt who judges too much or that friend who will gossip about how messy your house was)

Lesson no 3: the baby will have a diaper explosion when you put on the best clothes. Suddenly the diaper you swear by will explode leaving messy trails of you-know-what all over!! This has to happen when your baby is all cutely dressed and you are either about to step out or are in the car on your way or at someone's place or when you want to click a few nice pictures

Lesson no 4: in sync with lesson no 3 if the God feels kind towards you and doesn't grant you a diaper explosion, then the baby will throw up all over. On the bedspread, on his or her own clothes, on the shiny gift, on the diaper bag, and on any clean surface that was within line of sight. Mind you, at this point of time if you are wearing old rags the reflux will not touch you at all. BUT if you are also dressed up to go out then the reflux will be all over you too.

Lesson no 5: in sync with lesson no 2. You will have visitors when you are wearing the oldest clothes you own. The day you dress well and dress the baby well and the baby is behaving angelically no one will be around!!!

Lesson no 6: the no of times baby does poopy is inversely proportional to the no of diapers in your diaper bag. The very day you have just 3 diapers in the bag baby will want to do potty 30667943 times. The day you carry 5477786392 diapers, baby will do potty maybe 1 tine!!!!

Lesson no 7: you will most likely forget to pack what your husband asks you to hand over. Hahahaha always happens with me. Hubs: sweetie i think miss A needs her paci
Me: yea let me give you (superior look on my face) next moment (puppy face and sad eyes) i guess i left it in the steriliser back home. Oopsy.
Hubs: (superior look on his face) duh! How u forget baby? That's why i always remind you everything.
Me: uh huh.

These are the lessons that i have learned till now.

XOXO

Im JEALOUS

Yes i just typed that. I am jealous with a capital J. And you know why? I read these other 'mommy' blogs at times. Some are honest and make me feel normal. At times some moms will write "so i put baby down for a nap and went and did my hair an nails and came home to a sparkling clean house and sterilised the bottles & danced in my high heels. Ok the high heel part is my addition but the way those women manage their homes makes me jealous.

And then i wonder why those other babies can be 'put down' and they nap, whereas trying to make miss A sleep is like preparing for a battle. She will pout and cry sometimes want to be fed, at other times changed and what not when I'm trying to make her nap. Phew! Even thinking about it is making me sweat. And then at the exact time she's to be fed i can't find the burp cloth or the bottle cover or some-such-thing. Makes me feel really annoyed!

Some moms have pictures with their babies enjoying a walk in the park or some such place. There are days when the only walks me and hubs manage are in the house trying to make our baby sleep or rock her and soothe her bcoz of colic. See what I'm talking about???

D-uh this is getting tough! But i immediately head over to the blogs where i feel i can relate to and feel so good about myself.

Paranoid new mama

Hello! I am Samreen. You can call me mrs paranoid! Honestly before the baby came along i was just fine. No crazy paranoia at all. But now that lil miss A is here you can catch me worry about:
Why is she sleeping so much/ so little today
Why is she so fussy today?
Has she eaten too much/ too little?
Is she too hot or cold
Etc etc

I just wanted to know is this normal? Does every mom worry this way? Or am i being weird and need help? Lol!!!

I love.........

I love:
Holding my lil baby in my arms

Looking into her eyes

Seeing her smile, even if she doesn't yet know that she's smiling

Dressing her up in cute outfits. This phase will be short, i know! These days kids start deciding upon their clothes so soon! I'm currently having a blast dressing her up in cutie pie, cuddly outfits.

Hearing her coos and poos

Staring at her while she's lost in thought! No clue what miss A thinks about but its super cute.

Snuggling with her.

When i try to burp her, she cuddles and falls asleep in our arms. Her head finds the cutest spot near my shoulder and i love the feeling of having her sleep on me.

Watching hubs and miss A play together. They are the cutest duo ever. I love them both hugely. Seriously HUGELY

Late feedings. Well i don't really love them and at that point all i wish is for some sleep, but in retrospect i know she's going to grow up soon. So i want to cherish those moments and look back upon them.

Seeing her grow! As in not grow grow but seeing her do new things, look at me, recognize me? hopefully yes, see her do cute things- like when she tries to escape her swaddle, or lifts her head when we are making her sleep - its all way beyond cute. I'm a terrible mom i help her escape the swaddle sorry.

Love it when i give her medicines an she smacks her lil lips for the sweet one and makes funny faces for the yucky one. It looks adorable. ADORABLE!

I know this tops all lists - her baby smell. Its so amazing i fail to understand why people haven't made it into a perfume yet.

The way those tiny hands hold my fingers. I am going to hold those hands tightly all my life and make sure my baby is safe and sound.

This list will go on forever i guess..... Love you miss A.

Mommy feelings

A few years back i was shopping with my lovely sis. She had delivered a baby about four months ago and i had gone to hongkong just to see her baby and her. But since it was the first time i had gone to hkg, she was taking me out and showing me around.

That particular day we were browsing around in various shops, i was picking up lots of knick knacks and stuff and my sister called up home to check up on the baby who was with the nanny. She ha done this a nummmmber of times that morning. And used to do it every time we were out. So i asked her, isn't this namny nice? Are you worried she's not taking care properly of the baby? Do you want us to go back immediately?

To this she replied 'no its not that. The thing is when you have a baby and leave the baby with someone, even if its your own mom or mil or a nanny or a sitter, after some time you just begin to miss your baby. And not like miss but terribly miss. So much that your arms want to hold your kiddo and you can smell the baby smell of your lil one.' Back then i just smiled at her and thought to myself, wow what crazy stuff!

Fast forward to last evening. I went to a mall NEXT DOOR like literally next door. Just to get a couple of things. My baby was at home with hubs and mil. After some time my mil called me to just ask me to get a few more things. And i could hear my lil doll fuss a bit in the background. And oh heavens......can't even explain the feeling i had. I just wanted to run out to my child. My pretty lil baby my fairy princess my darling was fussing and i wasn't there!!!!! I took more time at the mall than planned and i could actually feel my sister's words haunt me. I finished off my work and believe me ran through the mall. My stitches started hurting, but i just wanted to see my lil girl and hold her.

I now understand the feeling of missing my baby so much that i just want to hold her, and miss her to the point that i remember her cute baby smell. I wish i could bottle all this up. Love u my miss A. Mama XOXOXOXO

Embracing motherhood

You know you have embraced motherhood when:
# you have dark circles under your eyes from all the night milk parties.
# when you change diapers atleast 18 times a day...... And stop counting after that.
# when a 'spa' visit means a hot shower!
# when you feel like a total zombie but when you get a toothless smile, ALL the tiredness and the stress goes away
# when your hair sometimes doesn't know what a comb or hairbrush means until 1 pm in the afternoon! Lol yes its happened to me too.
# when you hear a tiny little wail and it breaks your heart because you don't know how to make it stop.
# when an aerated drink is your best friend because you need the sugar rush.
# when you see yourself browsing baby sections in malls and baby websites online.
# when your top google searches are things like 'how to set a schedule for a newborn baby', 'what is the normal feeding schedule for a newborn', ' which is the best diaper' etc.
# when you become one of those annoying people who spam others with cutie pie pictures of your little one. Just because they are too sweet to miss!!!
# when your timings are suddenly known as feed times and burping the baby is a major activity!!!!!
# when you can't remember the time when you had unbroken 8 hours of sleep.
# when all your fancy-schmancy purses are replaced by mommy looking diaper bags.
# when you love someone so much its just in your heart and all over your life. You just want this one tiny little person to be happy and smiling soooooo much always.

When your baby smiles, coos and giggles, laughs and at times cries (at times is pretty frequent btw) you just become the best mom you can be at that moment. And yes the best dad too!!!!

The best gift for new moms

Now that I'm a mom let me list out the best gift you can give new moms

#1 diaper bag
#2 gift certificates
#3 watch her baby for her
#4 baby stuff that she requires. Like maybe baby clothes blankets etc
#BEST : CONCEALER!!!!!
That's the best gift ever. Because we are a sleep deprived lot! Concealer to conceal those terrible dark circles is THE gift. Lol

# second best: energy drinks. We need the sugar rush!

random post i guess
XOXOXOXOXO

ONE MONTH OLD!!!!!!!

My little princess has turned one month old. This one month has got to be the most tiring month of my life. But whenever she looks at me with those pretty brown eyes, i just feel like this month could last forever (ummm no not seriously)

Here are a few things this one month old pint size chicklet does:
- Makes all of us run around
- Tries to support her own head. Well ur still a baby Miss A so stop it
- Tries to turn over. Hopefully the turn happens soon.
- Poops n pees ALL the time. I must have changed like a thousand diapers this month.
- Has NO schedule. We are her slaves. Lol. She just does things at her own pace
- Loves her massage but hates her bath. Infact when we carry her to the bathroom after the masseuse aunty finishes her massage, she starts crying as soon as we step in to the bathroom. God knows whether she recognises it or just knows what's coming next!
- poor thing has colic frequently. We hate to hear her scream. She turns tomato red and many a times i have started crying seeing her like that! Yeah I'm a brave mama!!!!
- makes the cutest sounds when i feed her. Her coos n hmmmms r the sweetest. I love hearing them.
- hates being swaddled. Wants her hands free and struggles instantly! Silly mama that i am i give in and help her free herself. I can't see her cry!
- loves to be walked around. Please blame hubs for this. He started it!!!!
- gives us a tough time to burp her. She wants to wriggle, jiggle and behave like a lil crocodile by lifting her tiny head to look at the person who's trying to burp her!
- smiles at us. Its so cute. The toothless pretty smile. Never can capture it though. Bcoz by the time i reach for my camera / phone the smile is replaced by a frown/ wail/ pout.
- even laughs loudly in her sleep.
- makes the scariest choking sounds and scares us to death.
- needs her wet diapers to be changed INSTANTLY. no delay allowed. We have to scramble like mad!!!!

Love you Miss A. Ur the cutest.
XOXOXOXOXO