Comments on: Getting Some of Me Back – Hope for New Parents! https://www.alimanno.com/blog/2018/09/13/getting-back-hope-new-parents/ Motherhood, Fashion and Lifestyle Sat, 22 Sep 2018 06:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Romyna https://www.alimanno.com/blog/2018/09/13/getting-back-hope-new-parents/#comment-91696 Sat, 22 Sep 2018 06:05:00 +0000 https://aliluvs.com/?p=9158#comment-91696 I have a beautiful two year old toddler boy. He’s amazing and the love of my life along with his daddy 🙂 The first year was tough for me, it probably took me that whole year to adjust to motherhood. I had just graduated from grad school and went from busy, all over the place doing my schooling to all of the sudden staying home all day with my newborn, somedays by myself because my husband was a police officer at that time and their schedules are crazy. That change was brutal. It was hard and I don’t find it easy to reach out at times. However I did see the light at the end of the tunnel. I started feeling myself again when I went back to work. When my son turned one, I got a part-time job in my field and shortly after my husband had transitioned to a job with a more stable schedule. Once I started working talking to other clinicians in my field I started feeling like myself again. My son is such a good kid. He makes me feel I’m doing good as his mommy. Because of my hubby’s flexible work schedule, he is able to stay with our son while I work (which is only 2 or 3 half days a week max), and the days he can’t, my mom helps us. So we finally found our rhythm with parenting and having jobs. It’s not always easy but we do try to have a datenight at least once every two months (we are trying to do better though). I’m 5 weeks pregnant of our second and last child (we want 2 kiddos). I’m a bit scared because I know that we are going to go through the challenges of having a newborn and adjusting to having two kids instead of just one. I know we are going to have to find a new rhythm. I don’t know how long it will take and what it’s going to look like but I know that when the moment of “oh my gosh this is too hard” comes I have to remind myself that “this too shall pass”. Thank you for the inspiring blog!

]]> By: Kaylen https://www.alimanno.com/blog/2018/09/13/getting-back-hope-new-parents/#comment-91677 Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:11:38 +0000 https://aliluvs.com/?p=9158#comment-91677 Ali, I needed to hear this right now! I have a 3 year old and an eleven week old and I’m crumbling. I go back to work next week and am both so sad and secretly elated to get some of me back again. It’s been a hard few weeks. Thank you for always being so honest about motherhood.

]]> By: Marisela Hoehn https://www.alimanno.com/blog/2018/09/13/getting-back-hope-new-parents/#comment-91485 Wed, 19 Sep 2018 23:01:16 +0000 https://aliluvs.com/?p=9158#comment-91485 Hello Ali,

Can you write a post on how your fur baby Owen has reacted with this new change? I just had my baby early July and I am so happy that fur baby has done so well with her, however, I feel bad that I am not giving her (my fur baby) as much attention as I was before. How do you make time to play, interact, give attention to Owen? 🙂

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