I feel like I can do anything!
Having been pregnant for 9 months, of which, I limited (or had to limit) myself to doing only bare minimum, that once the baby was out, I was up and about in no time (well, thanks to not having a c-section or an epidural for that matter! =P)
So without the baby in my stomach, I wanted to get back all the time I had lost. I got back into work with only one month off, I went back to eating (or rather, not eating) at irregular hours, I carried heavy things without thinking twice, I resumed bending over backwards for my Brides and slithering through tight spaces.
I never thought I would be this career-driven woman. I always thought I would want to be that typical stay-at-home mom. I'm not sure if it is because of how society is now that it requires both to have incomes, but I do completely enjoy my career.
(But I did promise myself that with the next one, I will give myself at least 3 months off - no consultations, no weddings, no nothing - purely 3 months of time with the new baby, enjoying my time, especially with breastfeeding).
9/29/2007
9/22/2007
No one wants to take care of babies!
My sister and I have a theory.
No one wants to take care of babies (well, maybe except for my good friend, Karen's parents =P).
We all want to work. We would much rather work than to stay home. Anything than to stay home with the baby!
This generation has changed. For grandparents who are not yet retired and for new parents who have been working, they just want to keep on working. Is it that with taking care of a baby, you just don't feel that sense of accomplishment that you do with working?! Don't get me wrong, taking care of a baby is definitely hard work (anyone who's been a parent would not argue with this). But because you have to take care of your child and that it's an everyday lifelong task, you see it as something that you just do.
So for grandparents alike, they would much rather keep on working until they HAVE to retire and for those new parents, (who are probably still in shock that their lives have changed forever - I still am =P) they would do anything than to lose their previous career-driven lives to a baby.
What took me to writing this Blog is that I feel so lucky I can have both. With having my own business, I can take care of Baby myself and sometimes with help from the grandparents. But it's when I want, I mean "rather", work that I feel so guilty for it. And it seems like the grandparents would take care of Baby only bare miniminally (when I REALLY need them) that I can hardly imagine having a second baby anytime soon.
Maybe this Blog stemmed from my sister having her second child on Tuesday, 09.18. Congratulations!
No one wants to take care of babies (well, maybe except for my good friend, Karen's parents =P).
We all want to work. We would much rather work than to stay home. Anything than to stay home with the baby!
This generation has changed. For grandparents who are not yet retired and for new parents who have been working, they just want to keep on working. Is it that with taking care of a baby, you just don't feel that sense of accomplishment that you do with working?! Don't get me wrong, taking care of a baby is definitely hard work (anyone who's been a parent would not argue with this). But because you have to take care of your child and that it's an everyday lifelong task, you see it as something that you just do.
So for grandparents alike, they would much rather keep on working until they HAVE to retire and for those new parents, (who are probably still in shock that their lives have changed forever - I still am =P) they would do anything than to lose their previous career-driven lives to a baby.
What took me to writing this Blog is that I feel so lucky I can have both. With having my own business, I can take care of Baby myself and sometimes with help from the grandparents. But it's when I want, I mean "rather", work that I feel so guilty for it. And it seems like the grandparents would take care of Baby only bare miniminally (when I REALLY need them) that I can hardly imagine having a second baby anytime soon.
Maybe this Blog stemmed from my sister having her second child on Tuesday, 09.18. Congratulations!
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