Don’t deny it! As much as you don’t want to do it, we all do it!
And I hate it more than anything. Comparing your baby to other
babies. I think especially when it’s your first child and you don’t
know any better or have anythings else to base things off of, we are
guilty of this awful habit. I think women are even guilty of doing it
while we are pregnant comparing our figures to one another. We think
“Ugh how did she only put on 15 pounds her entire pregnancy?” or “why
does she not even look pregnant when turned around?”
I love having girlfriends who have babies around Nolyn’s age because we can have play dates and relate to each other on all of the various events going on in our non exciting lives and talk about our single friends who we still vicariously live through. However when “Betty” comes over to the house for a play date and her child is doing a back flip (not literally) at three months old you start thinking in your head, dang I wonder when my baby is going to do that, or is something wrong with my baby since they can’t do that? I think this is a completely natural feeling that all parents go through and we just have to get over.
Then there are all the baby books you read and the baby emails you get from the websites you signed up on. You will read about the milestones your child should be hitting at a certain age and all the “tricks” they should be doing and you start to worry and think oh my gosh is my baby doing that yet?! Just relax.
I have notice that as time has passed I have started caring less and less, or maybe I have just become more self aware and I am working on not comparing because at the end of the day I am so proud of my baby girl already and have realized that all of our little ones will develop at their own pace in the way that God created them. Enjoy and embrace every milestone. My little girl is only nine months and it’s already going too fast!
Let’s face it all of our kids are awesome and better our lives every day even if they can’t do back flips
I love having girlfriends who have babies around Nolyn’s age because we can have play dates and relate to each other on all of the various events going on in our non exciting lives and talk about our single friends who we still vicariously live through. However when “Betty” comes over to the house for a play date and her child is doing a back flip (not literally) at three months old you start thinking in your head, dang I wonder when my baby is going to do that, or is something wrong with my baby since they can’t do that? I think this is a completely natural feeling that all parents go through and we just have to get over.
Then there are all the baby books you read and the baby emails you get from the websites you signed up on. You will read about the milestones your child should be hitting at a certain age and all the “tricks” they should be doing and you start to worry and think oh my gosh is my baby doing that yet?! Just relax.
I have notice that as time has passed I have started caring less and less, or maybe I have just become more self aware and I am working on not comparing because at the end of the day I am so proud of my baby girl already and have realized that all of our little ones will develop at their own pace in the way that God created them. Enjoy and embrace every milestone. My little girl is only nine months and it’s already going too fast!
Let’s face it all of our kids are awesome and better our lives every day even if they can’t do back flips
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