Lydia is my only breastfed baby. With Rowan my milk never came in. And don't tell me that it is not possible for milk to be nonexistent. Because it is very possible. I spent hours and hours with lactation consultants and I spent hours and hours pumping and nursing and pumping and nursing. And I tried teas and supplements. I tried until my baby was inconsolable with hunger pains. And then I had no choice but to give him formula. It was very disappointing. But at least he was fed. And it was easy to me at that time. I didn't have to panic about feeding in public. I didn't have to plan specific easy access outfits. I took a bottle with water and container of powder and went! So breastfeeding was foreign territory for me. Lydia was born at 37 weeks. She was ready to greet the world and nothing was gonna stop her. The nurses kept telling me that nursing would be difficult with an early baby. Well she proved them wrong. She immediately was nursing like a pro. And with
The thing about being a mother is it sometimes you're too busy to hold the camera in your hand to capture the Beautiful Moments. But that's what makes them what they are, that's what makes them moments. There one minute, gone the next. Like last night when my son crawled into bed with us and I laid there and my husband put his arm over me and my arm was over my son, and I thought this would be the perfect picture. But that's what makes it so special, so priceless. Some moments you can't capture. Some moments you have to live in, and you have to take in every second before it's gone. Because trust me it's gone faster than you would like. And then this morning as I was cooking breakfast and I look over the bar of my kitchen, I see my children talking to each other. Well my son talking, my three month old babbling back at him. But that connection was so special, and that's the kind of thing that a camera just can't hold. It can't hold that emotion a