Well you must read this post in order to understand that we just received a newborn foster baby, making our total to 6 kids and this past week has been kind of a blur at times (don’t ask me for a specific detail at a specific time, I might not remember).
Usually when most people are pregnant, they have 9 months (or more) to prepare for newborn-hood. We all know that the last trimester when you are literally carrying around a basketball, and can’t sleep, and have to get up and pee all.night.long is preparing you for a newborn keeping you up around the clock.
Shane and I decided that I would be the one getting up all night since I stay at home and Shane would need more sleep for work, and let me tell you.. it sounded good initially, but me and sleep have become long lost friends. I know this phase doesn’t last long, and it’s so different formula only feeding a baby since I did half breast/half formula with my own.
But even though nights are long, making the days seem that much longer, I am loving every moment of having a newborn around again. Getting to love on her, to know her likes/dislikes, to know how and what to do to console her sweet precious heart when she cries, is the best thing in the world.
Of course my hands are full, but so is my heart. The good times definitely supersede the bad, and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for this precious baby girl and I am so glad that God saw fit to make us her guardians during this time.
I will attach some pictures (of course her face is blurred due to privacy rules/regulations per foster care).
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