AWW! Suck it up! I got a 21-year-old son still living in the house and he thinks he knows everything! My wife and I are 56. Please pray for my wife and I! We are getting too old for this sh**.
I tried to breastfeed 🤱 my daughter until one year, but she did not latch well so I had to breast pump and bottle feed her. By 4 months it was difficult to keep breastfeeding exclusively because I had to go back to work and had house chores to do and other things. My husband works and I don’t have any other person to help me. So by 4 months I combo fed her then by 5-6 months I had to exclusively formula feed. My sister in law is able to breastfeed her baby slot because she only goes to school then comes home with her baby from daycare so she’s able to breast pump at the same time every day which I heard helps with milk supply. I feel like a failure
i have never allowed my children into the toilet with me. they are under 5 years old and have umderstood that they can wait outside the door. for me, this is something i find strange because its not part of my culture. my parents never allowed it and we understood it was private as we grew up.
I believe in not going out on Mother’s Day because restaurants are too busy and you should stay home with your children even though they bother you that your kids and they’re only gonna be little for so long and if you’re older, you’re only gonna be around for so long so anyways if you don’t have that money, take them to the park make some thing easy for dinner that daylight cake let them bake a cake cupcakes. My kids want them to take them to Five Below and spend money on me. I order ones that are like 12 and 10 no save your money For Mother’s Day is my kids to clean the room and chores I told him to do so we can go outside and play and enjoy today. It’s not about buying gifts and going to restaurants and new purses and so forth is about love is free. enjoy it while you can.
Thank you so much for this video and all the hard work that went into making it! I’ve been looking for something this concise and straight forward for a while. You got my sub ❤
This is incredibly helpful for understanding Why we may feel certain ways in our body or emotions, but we still have to choose to overcome and not live slave to our emotions. If we feel bad we can’t just say “oh it’s that time of the month, sorry family no fun today because I feel low energy.” That’s not empowering to us or our family. This season with two small kids has been so hard and I’ve had to learn how to wake up each day and decide TODAY WILL BE A GREAT DAY even though I often feel exhausted and a bit overwhelmed. Deciding not to go places or do certain things just because I didn’t feel up to the task was so limiting and made me feel worse. And I’ve seen how setting myself up to expect to feel a certain way usually results in me feeling that way, just because I expected it. Some days I need to check to see how much sleep I got to determine if I get up early or sleep in a bit more, but some days if I don’t have the option of when to get up I don’t look at my sleep feedback from my watch because I know it will setup my mind to believe “I didn’t get enough sleep to do this or that.” When I hear the word Grace I always translate that to “God’s empowering presence.” He gives us grace, He empowers us to rise above our emotions and circumstances. That doesn’t mean I can’t take a slow day or grab takeout because I’m so wiped I have no oomph in me to cook, but some days I actually have to choose the harder route to overcome because I just cannot let another rough sleeping night with the baby determine how my day goes. Same for my cycle when it returns. I’m enjoying learning about how these phases can affect our bodies, our hormones, they are powerful. But I’m also not going to plan my life around them. Thanks for the info!
Hey girly, thanks for sharing your thoughts! You touched on a lot of things I've been thinking about even as I was editing my video. I certainly agree we need to rise above our emotions and shared that in my video. I also see a lot of value in understanding what's happening with our bodies and making small decisions that can help us as we navigate each cycle. I don't think it's possible to align EVERY SINGLE EVENT with our cycle, sometimes things are out of our control, or we need to rise above our feelings that day and get things done. Overall, learning this is just going to help me be more aware and potentially make some changes here and there. I believe in a healthy balance for sure!
Of course the moment after I posted this live I had a tough moment with the kids and wasn't my best self again :( I got into that headspace where I just felt like "today's just going to be a bad day and thats that." But then, I started to think about how my reactions have impacted the kids behavior and in a sense they were just mimicking what I was putting out. I was able to approach my son, apologize for my actions, and ask him to start over the day with me. Grace shown through my son when I didn't deserve it. Just want to remind you thats it's never too early to turn your day around with your kids. God's grace is always available and you can hit that reset button and try AGAIN. Grace upon grace <3
I love the idea of planning your calendar around your cycle but my struggle is SO many things out of my control like birthdays, holidays and friend get togethers that are planned 3 months in advance bc of schedules in this season of life. I wish I felt like my best self going into any of these events rather than on the struggle bus! Thanks for this video, Nicole!
I totally get it I was thinking that as well while editing this, we can only control certain things and I think just keeping those few things in mind we DO have control over can make a small difference! And in the end when we fail, theres always grace <3
Wish I saw this before I started my baby on solids. My baby’s 9 months and literally will only have puréed foods. All the points you put out are exactly what im going through. Glad im not the only one going through this ❤
im 5 weeks. im bleeding and im praying with you as I sit here waiting for my first scan to see babys heartbeat. I cried at the same time you did! Pregnancy is so powerful and so beautiful. we are beautiful WOMBan's
Do I have babies or am I close to having babies? No. Did I watch this whole video? Yes. What I learned: new parents have to live their lives in one-hour intervals. This looks really hard. Worth it, of course. But very hard.
My baby stops breathing when I give him solids or finger foods literally last time I gave him a watermelon to his mouth he stopped breathing I had to take what got stuck out that’s why I’m scared what can I do ?
Congratulation , it is visible that you are making your child independent. Very diferent of lots of mothers that have problems in letting their child grow, keeping them in breatfeeding even 7 years old...congratulation,
