The sacrifices that come with motherhood.http://jerseys.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/the-sacrifices-that-come-with-motherhood/
http://jerseys.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/the-sacrifices-that-come-with-motherhood/#commentsSat, 24 May 2008 04:56:27 +0000Charlene Farberhttp://jerseys.wordpress.com/?p=128I always kind of wondered how newbie parents consider parenthood hard, besides the whole sleep and scheduling things. Now I know why for mothers: sacrifices. I couldn’t go to the movies tonight with the gang; someone has to watch the baby, and it was late for most people we know whom we rely on for help to babysit our little Mowgli.
Yes, I got super pissed when everyone, including my husband talked about which movie they wanted to see in front of me, while I was holding Mowgli, only to realize just when they were about to leave that Mowgli couldn’t come along. (He’s too young, not three weeks yet — and I was not going to risk distracting others’ viewing pleasure or subject him to a highly populated and crowded place yet, as his immune system is still very immature.)
Yes, I should have said — but didn’t — anything while they discussed which movie they wanted to see. Yes, I told my husband to go regardless — I hate hindering other people from doing anything they want to do.
Yes, I cried right after everyone left. I am not one to cry in front of people, and yawning is my first reaction to prevent people from seeing my cry.
Yes, what I did was stupid.
No, he does not owe me a time for me to go out and he stay behind to watch our little one. It’ll take me a while to get over this and move on — like, a day — but I am not one to usually hold long grudges or hold most actions against people.
I wonder if he realizes that he can’t keep up his social life like before Mowgli’s birth. Everything has changed, especially for me, this I have realized long before the birth. I know it effects him to a lesser degree, but he still needs to realize this truth as well. He needs to learn for himself; this is something I can’t tell him anymore. I already did several times…
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