Moms Rule

While my exposure to the "moms club" has been extremely brief so far, and obviously I'm not even technically invited in yet, I've been overwhelmed by what I've seen so far. The eagerness to share information, to help one another out, to make things easier on ourselves. It is really amazing.

I'm not even a big advise-seeker traditionally. I kind of like to do things my own way, perhaps that is the Taurus in me? :)

But this whole anticipated motherhood thing is exactly the opposite. I find myself engaging in conversations with strangers to gather information (there is a gal at my gym who looks fantastic, I haven't actually spoken with her yet but I'm dying to know how far along she is and how I can look like her at 8 months - she is not likely eating double cheese pizza for dinner like me, but still).

I'm talking to people I barely know about their experiences. With breast feeding. In detail. And I can't get enough. Even better, new moms seem almost desperate to share their information with other moms.

Strollers, car seats, bouncers, pack n' plays, cribs, OBs, breast feeding, health care, work/life balance (sadly a fairy tale but more on that later). And I've only scratched the surface. Imagine when this puppy pops out - hopefully that easily - and there is sleeping, and not sleeping, swaddling and crawling, socialization and feeding.

And trillions of moms who've gone before me. Totally amazing.

This is absolutely the coolest part of being a women I've experienced to date. The whole "sisterhood" thing makes sense for the first time and I'm left pondering the irony of all those years we spend being catty and competitive with each other earlier in life.

Thanks to all the moms who've shared priceless advice already. I look forward to talking to all of you in more detail soon. Keep it coming!

In the meantime, what is the best advice you gave or received to/as a new mom? Tell me please!

I promise to return the favor a hundred times over for those who come after me.

Hum, ok I still can't figure out how to get the baby pics up. They are saved as PDFs, DW resaved as jpegs but I still can't figure out how to get them on. They aren't showing up as jpegs when I try to attach. AGH! Hubby will resave tomorrow so you can see the cuteness soon.

This week was a big pile of garbage which means I still haven't written about how awesome the ultrasound was. Coming this weekend, promise.

Instead of bitching about all the things that were SO annoying about this week, I'm going to share a few great things that did make their way in - more than three things I'm grateful for:

- Ultrasound was truly best 30 minutes of TV I've ever seen. More on this but can't be said enough.
- Baby S is wiggling and dancing all the time now and every time I feel him, I smile (for some reason I feel like I have a secret no one knows about - though at this point the belly is no secret).
- I found $80 on the sidewalk Thurs while walking the dog - how sweet is that?!?!
- I love other moms. I have a whole post on this coming soon but moms rock and I can't get enough of their tips and advice. Keep 'em coming!!
- We had a great event tonight for BK, thanks to my kickass team who pulled it all together with very little help from me.
- We have two renters lined up to look at Winona tomorrow. Fingers crossed!
- I'm diving into Twitter ("cityretreat" there too but I'm going to have to watch for a bit before I dive in, not totally sure how it works just yet).
- Bellydance maternity store is having a sale tomorrow, I'm buying.
- My airplane did not snap in half and fall from the sky as I was positive would happen on Thursday night.
- Hubby agreed to Bugaboo suddenly after initial resistance.
- Went to great muscle pump class this am and my instructor is preggo too so she is going to take a few prenatal classes and bring back the moves for us.

I'm off to bed. Making the list of positives has nearly washed away the week. Hopefully tomorrow I'll wake up liking everyone around me :)

Happy weekend!