{"id":283,"date":"2009-07-27T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2009-10-11T12:21:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T16:21:43","slug":"baby-the-real-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/baby-the-real-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 4 The Real Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapter 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Love is patient, love is kind.\u00a0 It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.\u00a0 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.\u00a0 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.\u00a0 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hey God it’s me Lori,<\/em><\/p>\n

Help to give me patience and understanding <\/em><\/p>\n

and not be quick to anger.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Real Thing Being a Parent…<\/strong><\/p>\n

So this was it I was a mom what I had waited for all my life was right there in front of me.\u00a0 I thanked God every night for my baby.\u00a0 That is not to say that every second of his existence was filled with joy and bliss.\u00a0 When a baby is young they are pretty, well boring would be the correct word.\u00a0 The older they get the more interactive, the more fun they become.\u00a0 I love the baby stage just holding them but six months when they sit up on their own and get close to crawling is the best.\u00a0 Having one child was so easy he did not have colic or anything to speak of that was abnormal.\u00a0 He was spoiled rotten at night if he cried I got him out of his crib and held him all night.\u00a0 Well that got old after 9 months of fatigue and lack of sleep.\u00a0 So we did the Ferber Method, you know when you let your baby cry for 3 minutes then check on him tell him it’s OK then let him cry for 6 minutes so on and so forth.\u00a0 Well it took 4 hours the first night for Ethan to finally go to sleep.\u00a0 It only took about 4 really difficult nights before he learned that when we put him down for the night we would not be picking him back up again.\u00a0 It’s not an easy method , it about killed me.\u00a0 I wanted so badly to pick him up and hold him but that’s what had gotten us into that predicament to begin with.\u00a0 So I had self-control and Aaron saying “it’s OK” as he fell asleep during the crying.<\/p>\n

People say the easy part is when they are little well mine are not past the age of 10 yet, and so far I agree.\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong it is not always easy but when he was a baby I think the hardest part was just the isolation of staying at home with a baby that could not talk.\u00a0 So most afternoons I would take him for a walk to my parents house for some adult conversation.\u00a0 I encourage any new moms to join moms groups or find friends that have little ones that stay at home.\u00a0 You mentally need that connection with the outside world especially if you have a challenging baby.\u00a0 One with colic of if you just get frustrated easily.\u00a0 Anytime you feel your frustration level building please put that baby down go to another room count to ten or call someone.\u00a0 Going outside for fresh air often helps as well.\u00a0 It is a change of scenery for you and the baby as well.\u00a0 Just the sound of an adult voice sometimes sets a mom straight again and your patience will return.<\/p>\n

The most difficult and trying time I have experienced as a parent yet was when I brought my second baby home from the hospital.\u00a0 I had a beautiful baby girl Anna.\u00a0 She did not have colic but I think she was close to it.\u00a0 She cried loud and often.\u00a0 The way to get her quiet was to hold her, give her a pacifier and let her listen to running water all at the same time.\u00a0 Had she been my only child it probably would not have been as taxing.\u00a0 However, Ethan my first child was 2 years old, potty training and testing the limits of my patience.\u00a0 I remember being so overwhelmed that I started looking on line for help for parents who had experienced this before.\u00a0 As always her crying subsided and his stage passed.\u00a0 I always take solace in the statement “And this too shall pass”.\u00a0 It is such a comfort to know that all stages and phases will soon turn into a different stage of phase hopefully not as trying but at the least different…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chapter 4 Love is patient, love is kind.\u00a0 It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.\u00a0 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.\u00a0 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.\u00a0 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61],"tags":[80,19,47,78,79,81,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}