Having a baby is a little like training to be a Zen master.\u00c2\u00a0 First of all, everything that you thought was vitally important (like impressing your boss, keeping a clean house, wearing clothes without spit-up on them) suddenly become inconsequential.\u00c2\u00a0 You realize that the most important thing in life is this little person in front of you and keeping her happy.<\/p>\n
Second: Breastfeeding.\u00c2\u00a0 There is not a lot that you can do while breastfeeding.\u00c2\u00a0 You can look at the baby.\u00c2\u00a0 You can not look at the baby.\u00c2\u00a0 The former activity is a lot more fun.\u00c2\u00a0 The point is, that all those lists of things that you need to do, have to wait. You are forced to just sit and be present in the moment.<\/p>\n
Third: Everything takes longer.\u00c2\u00a0 If Ilya has a meltdown in the car seat (a very common occurrence), we pull over and take care of her – making the trip take three or four times as long as it did BB (Before Baby).\u00c2\u00a0 Adam and I decided to put a patio in our yard so that we could have BBQ’s outside and a place to sit (right now, it is a lawn of wood chips and plants).\u00c2\u00a0 Ilya decided to help by sitting in her chair and laughing at us as we toiled away.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, she needed to be changed and fed about 6 times during the course of our labor- which meant that poor Adam did most of the toiling alone.\u00c2\u00a0 I am proud to say that we have a roped off section for our patio and several holes in the ground.\u00c2\u00a0 I have to keep reminding myself that the tortoise won the race in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Having a baby is a little like training to be a Zen master.\u00c2\u00a0 First of all, everything that you thought was vitally important (like impressing your boss, keeping a clean house, wearing clothes without spit-up on them) suddenly become inconsequential.\u00c2\u00a0 You realize that the most important thing in life is this little person in front […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}