HARRY POTTER HOUSE QUIZ KID FRIENDLY SKIN

Sometimes I think, “When I grow up, I want to be her.” On your birthday, my sweet littlest baby, mummy’s birthday wishes for you are: I’m not ready, but I’m doing my best to start letting her go, letting her be. I’m not ready for her to go into the world and get hurt, fall down, get back up, and learn the full range of human experiences. I’m not ready for the potential conflicts and disagreements between us. I’m not ready for her to see my humanity and flaws as a parent.

HARRY POTTER HOUSE QUIZ KID FRIENDLY SKIN

I’m not ready to stop feeling her soft skin and the weight of her chubby body on me as I carry her in my arms. I’m not ready to stop being her #1 favourite person in the world.

I’m not ready to close this chapter of my life as a woman, the ‘life creating’ chapter. I can rest better, think more clearly, and look forward to having more of my life, my career back. I can feel my childcare responsibilities easing up. This milestone was a long time coming, and now that it’s here, I’m not ready. I still get teary just thinking about it. I was pining for her long before she had life.įrom the many rounds of IVF and a few losses along the way, to doing the research and working up the courage to try transferring a “mosaic embryo” that was deemed “incompatible with life,” to holding my breath for the first twelve weeks while getting daily injections of progesterone to help “keep this baby in”.įrom being on bedrest and finally hospitalized for months before my due date because of frequent heavy bleeding, to having an emergency C-section and losing nearly two litres of blood in the delivery room, to being separated from my worried husband and newborn baby for six hours as I recovered alone, to finally holding her tiny, borderline premature body in my arms. Today she’s three years old. This milestone was a long time coming. Our littlest baby is not a baby any more. I’m not ready for her to see my humanity and flaws as a parent.’ ‘I’m not ready to stop being her #1 favourite person in the world.

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