Motherhood milestones
I guess everybody has heard about baby milestones: holding their head, sitting up by themselves, starting to eat food… But what about the milestones that mothers reach in their journey through motherhod? Last Saturday, I found myself baking cookies and I started thinking about all my “milestones” in these past 2.5 years.
– I was peed on
This is one of the first milestones for many parents! Tiny babies seem to enjoy “opening the tap” the moment you remove their diapers. However, the incident that I remember most clearly happened when my son was 11 months old. We were on a plane to Spain and somehow he soaked through his diapers while he was sitting on my lap. I had a change of clothes for him, but not for me… my clothes were in the checked in baggage! I have never been pooed on, although one time was a close cut, and I’ve never been vomited on either (my son has never vomited in his life. For now).
– I didn’t sleep 8 hours straight for almost two years
When I talked about this on Instagram I wrote “over one year”, but later, thinking about it, it was way closer to two years. My son kept waking up during the night until he was 20 months old, and adding that to the last months of pregnancy when I had to get up in the middle of the night to pee… Yep, I didn’t sleep 8 hours in a row in almost two years. How did I survive? Honestly, I have no idea. I don’t even drink coffee…
– I had holes on my nipples
This might be TMI but hey, it’s a motherhood fact for many people. I breastfed my son (still do) and, for the first 6 weeks, it was very painful. When I closely inspected my nipples… I had literal holes between the nipple and the areola. Ew. This happened again at 6 months, when my son started teething. Ah, the joys of motherhood… I saved a lot on formula, but maybe I will have to spend that money to get a boob job in the future! (This is a joke. I honestly don’t care a bit).
Yep. Pretty much.
– I stepped on a Lego brick
My son doesn’t have his own room so his toys are always all over the living room. One evening I was doing some exercise when I stepped on a Lego brick… barefoot. How can these things inflict so much pain? They could be used as landmines!
The Oatmeal agrees.
– I baked cookies
I reached my last milestone last Saturday: I baked butter cookies with my son! I’d never baked cookies before, so I just searched online for an easy recipe. He seemed to enjoy being able to do something for himself and I took a lot of pictures. Of course. after the first tray he lost all interest and I had to finish the rest by myself… Now we’ll have cookies for weeks!
I’m just at the beginning of my journey but for the first milestone I should get a gold medal. My husband was peed on and I got shot by a poo when changing diaper. It just flew right off the changing table to my pants. Amazing haha 🙈🙈🙈
Oh, congratulations! For many more milestones to come, hahaha!
I have all those milestones, plus the vomiting and getting hit in the eye with a toy train.
The birthrate in the US has absolutely plummeted during the pandemic. Couples that used to have 3-4 kids elected to stop after 1-2. Amazing what a year home as primary caretaker will do!
Hahaha that’s good, there’s too many people in the world… I know a couple of pandemic babies, though! (But they’re just child number 2).
Congratulations on reaching your many mommy milestones! I’m sure that there will be many more to come in the years ahead.
I do remember my mother relating similar stories related to me, so your post bring back warm memories.
Hahaha, I wonder if I will nag my son when he’s older telling him these things (I probably will).
Having all girls, I escaped your first milestone. My babies did spit up, but they never peed on me. Because we had maids in Manila when my kids were young, I don’t remember doing much baking with them. Later, back in the US, the girls and I did a lot of baking and cooking together. They’re all great cooks and bakers now. But I’ve stopped baking. It’s hard to bake for one person without getting too fat.
Oh, baby girls don’t like to “free pee”? Interesting, hahaha.
We’re 5 at home but I almost never bake anything because I end up eating most of it myself…
Hahaha. Love his little sleeve protectors :D Congrats on your motherhood milestones ~ may there be many many entertaining ones :P
When I sent these pics to several friends and relatives on WhatsApp, most of them mentioned the sleeves! I think I should start a business exporting them, hahaha.
Uh, YEAH! What are you waiting for? :P ;)
Haha man these milestones are so real. I don’t know if these milestones are selling me on motherhood? haha! Making cookies look so fun!
Hahaha, I say things like they are! Autumn does too. I think a dose of reality is needed, to counter those “having children is the best thing that ever happened to me” types xD
Beautiful piece well written. Thank you for sharing these motherhood milestones. It reminds me of my milestones along the journey of motherhood.
Thank you for sharing! One of my milestones was reheating the same cup of coffee 5 times a day :)
Hahaha, that sounds like something that could happen to me too!
Ha Ha Ha. I enjoyed your post so much specially the pie diagram of of lego memories. I started thinking of my own motherhood milestone. May be my next post will be on that.
Ok….one day your son will barf. Maybe you’ll be lucky enough, it will be outdoors.
Oh, I just saw this! He barfed on the car when we were going home from the airport after arriving in Spain. So, 4 months after I wrote this post haha. It was a mess and we had to tear the car seat cover apart to wash it… Putting it back on was not easy!
Thank you for sharing!
Hahaha, I laughed the entire entry, not only because it’s true, but also because my one month son did almost all the things checked here. I was peed on, I was pooed on (in my fingers while i was changing him, my partner got the worst part though), he bites hard although it’s all gums (I fear when the boy teethes).
And i’ll reconsider buying legos in the future (at least until he gets his own room).
Hahaha, congrats on reaching so many milestones so early on! Think about aaaaaall the ones still to come :D
Thank you for sharing!