The day you discover that you’ve successfully become pregnant is all at once terrifying and thrilling. Every new experience while you’re pregnant is awe-inducing and emotional. Actually, giving birth, be it naturally or via c-section, is the wildest thing you will ever do in your life, no matter how many bars you danced on while singing along badly with your girlfriends. Nothing compares to the euphoria that you feel when you hold your baby for the first time and realize how badass you actually are for actually going through this whole process to begin with.
Pregnancy and childbirth are taking your life into your hands and making a promise to the universe that you will carry on the great, big promise that was made with the Big Bang and the creation of Adam and Eve. You are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice — yourself in almost every way — to continue the species.
You read all the books, take the classes, watch the videos, and still, nothing can truly prepare you for what is about to happen to your life.
As you go through the first few months of sleepless nights and sore boobs and self-doubt, and questioning your sanity, you will continue to look at your beautiful baby and tell yourself it is all worth it. The good, the bad, and the ugly of motherhood are all worth it to see your baby smile; watch him recognize you for the first time, lift his head and reach out for you. You get filled with all the feels and know that it is all worth it until the day he looks you in the eyes, smiles, and calls you “Dada.”
Yup. All the sacrifice is definitely worth it. 🙂
The Saucy Mama 