Secret Societies
I'm not wearing my tinfoil hat. It's just that Kylene and I feel like we're joining a club. She mentioned it to me as a sort of motherhood club, but upon reflection I see it as a parenthood club. If we tell someone who does not have children that we are pregnant, they congratulate us. When we tell someone who has children, they congratulate us as well but it's accompanied by a knowing smile or a wink. Sort of as if to tell us that in nine months we'll learn the secret handshake and get access to the monthly meetings.
All joking aside, we really appreciate the extra level of encouragement that we get from those who've "been there". It helps to calm and reassure the nervous energy and feelings that are associated with our "first time".
posted by Dave @ 9:03 PM
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Welcome to the club! *wink*
It's the best club you'll ever belong to. You will pay your membership dues in the form of boxes and boxes of diapers, loss of sleep, and the knowledge of what it's like to be running out the door, late, and have baby spit up all over you...causing you to be even later.
BUT the club has benefits that never end - for Kylene one of the benefits is being able to feel your baby from inside of you for months, and you'll always miss that feeling. It's amazing. For Dave, that rush of emotion that only dad's can feel for their wives, knowing that they are cradling a piece of you and giving it life.
Joint benefits include the smiles, the laughter, the frustrations, the joy of watching the child learn new things every day. You will learn to clean things you never though you'd have to. You will say things that you never thought would come out of your mouth (i.e. "Ava, please don't lick the kitty."). And that feeling of rocking the baby to sleep and placing him/her gently in the crib...and wanting to pick him/her right back up because you don't want to be apart even for a second.
Good luck to you both - and welcome to the club. *wink*
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