Baby News
I can only try to gauge how Elle must be feeling by how I am feeling. We are all so eager to hear news about the little budding banana.
On the other hand I have a new coworker, who is quickly becoming a close friend who is also with baby news. Her story is filled with much more stress and more more need for happy thoughts for her health and that of the baby. I was very surprised today to realize how touched and scared I was when I heard her and the baby needed my thoughts and energy.
I sat and talked with Dawn, another coworker and friend, as we discussed our love for our children but our hesitation to care for anyone else's children. Part of it is our childhood of acting as mothers throughout our teenage years and part we can only imagine is our self doubt in raising our own and a lot of it probably speaks to having children before we were truely ready. We were both examining how we feel like we are desiring of so much time to ourselves. She was delighted to know that I shared some of her feelings as she was wondering if there was something wrong with her.
We are doing the best we can...