Playing Catch Up

It's been a long time since I've turned to this blog. It started out as a way for me to vent, and share my personal experiences as a new mom. I think after my companion Stewie passed away, it was really difficult for me to continue writing; especially since my last trimester in pregnancy, and my time as a new mom, was very difficult for me for a number of reasons.

I'm happy to report that as of today, I have a 15 week old happy, healthy little baby girl. We named her Ahsoka after our favorite character in the new Star Wars cannon (If you haven't read the novel "Ahsoka", I highly recommend it - it's one of my favorite books). Her middle name is two names, which is the combination of my two sisters - both of which love my new daughter dearly.

What I plan to do for my next few blog posts is to play a little catch up. It may not be today, or tomorrow, but I will catch up slowly in the very near future. I want to talk about my birth story. I want to talk about a little-know condition in babies called tongue tie and lip tie (which my daughter had revised, and the revision surgery has made an huge positive impact in our lives). I want to talk about how hard it is to breastfeed for so many moms, and what that experience has been like for me. I want to talk about so many things. I hope you're ready because I know I am.

I'm also back to working my day job, so between that and caring for seriously the best baby on the planet (I mean for me of course), my time is somewhat limited. But I also believe in the much needed therapeutic process of writing. It's always helped me, and I need to make sure that part of being the best mother I can be to my daughter is investing in self-care for myself. I need to show her how healthy it is to be good to yourself when you are taking care of your children. Furthermore, I realize the longer I am from the experiences of my third trimester and my time with my daughter as a newborn, the more I'm forgetting already. And I don't want to forget a single thing.

Also, "new mom brain" is a thing and the quality of my writing may suffer (I think it's mostly the sleep deprivation)... ye be warned.

“It felt absurdly nice to be taken care of. Maybe that was what she needed, even if she didn’t need it very often.” ― E.K. Johnston, Ahsoka