However, I know there are several trials associated with parenting as well. I know that pregnancy is not easy for everyone. I know several women who have been so sick during pregnancy that they have been hospitalized multiple times. They didn't have morning sickness just in the morning, or only in the first trimester. They were sick most of the day for 7 or 8 months. That trial is just to bear the baby. Not to mention the pain of labor or the emergency caesarean one had, or the life threatening hemorrhaging another had. When I think of those types of things just to bring a child into this world, it seems like much more than I could handle. I am amazed at what a woman can take for her children.
After the trial of bearing the child and delivering the child that can be much tougher for some than others, the trial of a newborn arrives. The seemingly endless nights of waking up multiple times with the child, and not being able to get that sleep back because while the child sleeps there are other chores that need to be attended to. My sister once told me she is sure that new mothers are blessed with the ability to function on much less sleep than is needed normally. I can't say for sure without experiencing it, but it is amazing to me how much mothers of brand new babies can do on the slim amounts of sleep they are getting.
Besides the baby not sleeping through the night and needing the attention of its mother all the time, there is the added trial for first time mothers of figuring out how much to pamper their precious child. Trying to determine which cries mean which ailment. Does the baby need to be fed, changed or held? Do I hold the baby every time he or she cries? Doesn't that teach the baby that they need to be held all the time? How much pampering of the baby is too much? There are endless questions that have to be worked out and parenting techniques to be agreed upon with a spouse. And all this just within the first year of the child's life. Then there are many more years of trials resulting directly from this life that a sacrificing mother brought into this world.
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I like how you tie together everything that you know about pregnancy and being a new born mother with how you feel about it. A few of the sentences in the first paragraph start the same so if you can figure out how to switch it up without making it sound choppy that would be awesome. If you don't already have it in your paper, there is actually some cool psychology on babies and when to pick them up, when not to and when to just let them cry it out.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed how you added your personal opinions into these paragraphs. They added a lot of insight, and made the whole thing more enjoyable to read. I am amazed at women and childbirth as well. I think that this is going to be an awesome paper, and I'm excited to read it!
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