The Greatest Love

Growing up, I used to hear women talk about being a mother and how it's a different kind of love and how rewarding it is and you buy into it yet you keep moving. I don't think a person could EVER fully wrap their minds around how rewarding it is until you have one of your own.

For 9 months, you carry and nurture and protect and bond with this child. You suffer body as well as hormonal changes. You even go through a few mental changes. Some days you're feeling like you're floating on cloud 9 but other days you're feeling like you're in the pits. You go through a trying process that we call labor which can take literally all day long. You endure that pain all to hear those three words: "it's a girl/boy." Your eyes fill up with tears when you hear the sweet music; the sounds of your little one crying.

Then reality hits! You realize now that you're mommy and everything you do affects your baby. You realize that once you leave the hospital, the ball is in your court. And so you talk yourself up. You tell yourself how you can do it, it'll be easy, your mom did it, people do it everyday, etc. Hmph...then you realize that it's not as easy as you wanted to believe. Granted you may have some help but it's still overwhelming. That starts your short, sleepless night and you're long, tiring days.

Through all of your ups, downs, and changes, there's one thing that'll always remain the same: the love and fulfillment that you get when you look at your little one. You can be in the midst of the no good, horrible, terribly bad day and your child can cry or smile or laugh or do something really cute and you realize it's all worth it. You come to understand that no matter what happens, that love that you feel will never never change. You realize that you have the GREATEST love of all.