Lessons in Motherhood

What is with all of these babies? Everyone that I know is either pregnant or just had a baby. There are three (yes, three) people pregnant in my company, and we only have about 40 employees. Plus, my step sister just had a beautiful baby girl in France. A friend of mine had a baby last month, and my roommate from college is due in a few days. Babies, babies, babies.

So now you are wondering if I’m getting the baby fever? Is my biological clock tick, tick, ticking? Am I getting the baby itch? NOPE!

Ok, maybe a super tiny bit. Wait. Did I just write that? Crap. Don’t read that part. Because now you all are going to be asking me when we are going for number 3, and the honest answer is that we’re not. I think there’s just always a piece of me that wonders what another baby would be like. I mean look at the first two!!! Could they be any more different? Would the third one have red hair? Be a boy? Be like Fifi or like Hailey? Who knows. We’ll likely never know, and I’m really ok with that.

I don’t know if you know this, but having a baby is a huge pain in the ass. Yeah, it’s true. I would have to carry that thing around in my belly for 9 whole months plus probably a few extra weeks because my kids have tardiness issues. Then, you have to go through that messy process of having the kid, and let’s not go into much detail on that nastiness. Oh, then there’s the sleepless nights and the constant feedings which comes complete with a whole lot of pain and suffering for Mommy. Tack onto all of that another 18 years of worry, whining and wickedness. It’s a wonder any of us do this at all. There. Talked myself right out of that tiny inkling. I feel better now.