Comments on: What I Wish I Knew As a New Parent https://mommyevolution.com/wish-knew-new-parents/ Mom Smarter! Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:19:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: ​​Dr Hemapriya MBBS,AFIH https://mommyevolution.com/wish-knew-new-parents/#comment-131876 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=8898#comment-131876 Well said! Yes, the mental trauma is unexplained, however the teeny tiny smile of the little one makes the day most awesome and helps to forget the pain 🙂

]]> By: Full Spectrum Mama https://mommyevolution.com/wish-knew-new-parents/#comment-124251 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=8898#comment-124251 Our early experience was somewhat like this and I do think this would’ve been wonderfully helpful.

As a fellow special needs parent, though, I’m not sure it ever gets THAT much easier…

We have to find those moments of peace, I guess. Find ways to get enough sleep, and so on.

Thanks and love,
Full Spectrum Mama

]]> By: Barbara Mojica https://mommyevolution.com/wish-knew-new-parents/#comment-124206 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=8898#comment-124206 What an insightful letter! The worst part is that no one seems to understand or remember what they went through. I agree with you completely, except for me it was more like 6-9 months before I saw the light at the end of the tunnel.

]]> By: Sally https://mommyevolution.com/wish-knew-new-parents/#comment-105489 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=8898#comment-105489 I am the proud mum of a wonderful 17yr old with SPD. Despite our difficult journey ( he didn,t sleep for more than 3 hrs at a stretch for 7yrs) My only advise is cherish the moments you have, as the years go too quickly. Leave the housework undone, get down and play, babble, go out into nature, learn to encourage free spirit, fun and games. There are wonderful books available on sensory issues to help your child develop and minimise the sensory overloads. I wish My sons SPD had been diagnosed before he was 10, as our journey would have been easier and my sense of being an incompetant mum may not have been so damaging to my sense of self worth. Difficult years yes, rewarding yes, could I turn back the clock and make more precious memories I would. 17 yrs have flown and I love my boy more than words could say, I just sometimes wish I had kept my focus on the unique and extraordinary child he was, rather than worry about his milestones (or lack of) the state of the house, the opinions of others. Celebrate your gift, do your best, and point your bow as true as you can. My arrow is about to fly……

]]> By: Tammy @ creativekkids https://mommyevolution.com/wish-knew-new-parents/#comment-41967 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=8898#comment-41967 And then you decide that you’ll do it again and have more children, because it is worth it! My mom had 4 and the first was so colicky, but the rest she said was better because she knew it would end someday! Thanks for linking up with the Bloggers Brags Pinterest Party. I have pinned your post to the Bloggers Brags Pinterest Board!

]]> By: Jennifer https://mommyevolution.com/wish-knew-new-parents/#comment-41024 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=8898#comment-41024 In reply to Leigh.

A good friend of mine once told me that when you have kids you lose half of your personality… mostly from sleep deprevation. As they get older, that half comes back slowly. At the time I thought it was an odd comment but now that my youngest is 5 I see what she was saying.

]]> By: Leigh https://mommyevolution.com/wish-knew-new-parents/#comment-41018 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=8898#comment-41018 The first three months are very hard when you are new parent… no one can really prepare you for it because it is a little different to each parent and different things cause stress. For me sleepless nights completely rattled me.

I also think as the kids continue to get older you get more and more out of that tunnel and get back out in the real world.

]]> By: Jennifer https://mommyevolution.com/wish-knew-new-parents/#comment-41007 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=8898#comment-41007 In reply to Asheritah.

You’re absolutely not the only one! I’m sorry you didn’t have this insight sooner (which was a hard one to come by). I hope you can pass on this wisdom to a newer mom… why aren’t we talking about this stuff more?

]]> By: Asheritah https://mommyevolution.com/wish-knew-new-parents/#comment-40972 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=8898#comment-40972 Thanks for sharing this letter. My firstborn is almost 7 months old, so I feel like I’m just now coming out of that phase. It’s good to know I’m not the only one!

]]> By: Jennifer https://mommyevolution.com/wish-knew-new-parents/#comment-40961 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=8898#comment-40961 In reply to TheBargainBabe.

I actually block out most of it… but it does come flooding back at times, and my husband and I look at each other like it was a lifetime ago 🙂

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