I need to get to bed, but I want to write first.<\/p>\n
I am known as a pretty lazy person, in general. It’s well known that I love my sleep. I need I’d say at least 8 hours of sleep a day, and wish I had more. (Not to say I always get 8 hours – some days I function on 3, then sleep for 11 hours the next night. Not real healthy, but life is annoying.) I also tend to get very cranky if interrupted from sleep. Den has given up trying to wake me up and get me out of bed because I can get quite vicious. (Do not EVER pull the covers off me in an attempt to get me out of bed. I will take your head off. I need to be seduced into waking up.)<\/p>\n
Because of all this I have a lot of relatives who roll their eyes and shake their head at me wanting to have a baby. I’m pretty sure a lot of them think I’m going to fall to pieces and be a royal screw-up.<\/p>\n
But it’s different<\/i>. I don’t know why people can’t see the difference. Getting up in order to scrub the toilet and finish a couple of projects – not so encouraging. Getting up because your baby needs to be changed and fed, totally different. I embrace that role. I will go on 2 hours of sleep a night if I have to. And I can’t say I’ll love every minute of it, and I’ll probably be cranky and sleep-deprived, but I know<\/i> I will do what I need to do, and do it lovingly for my baby.<\/p>\n
In my lifetime I’ve raised two puppies. My first one was when I was 13 years old. She was 100% my responsibility, she slept in her crate right beside my bed. She was 7 weeks old when I got her. And every single night for many months she woke me up at least<\/i> once, sometimes twice, to go out. I was a young teenager, I absolutely abhorred mornings (my mom actually took to flicking water on me in order to get my ass out of bed – well, guess I haven’t changed much). But middle of the night when I’d hear my pup cry I would jump out of bed and rush her outside. Even if I was pretty much asleep on my feet. My second pup, Zoe, was older when I got her (4 months) and didn’t have mid-night potty breaks, however at 7am on the dot when she woke up she needed to be outside in less than 30 seconds or she would<\/i> pee all over the bed. Those were fun mornings, yes indeed.<\/p>\n
That’s how I know what kind of mother I will be. I thrive in the role. When you are the caretaker of a small being that depends on you everything changes. That’s what I want so badly. Even if it comes with only 2 hours of sleep a night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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