01 – the changing room
When we came home from the hospital with our tiny new daughter, Grace, this sweet, precious baby who I knew would depend on me for her very survival; suddenly it was as if nothing about our house that I loved seemed to f it. Although nothing in the rooms had been moved, everything had changed.
I realized that was because before her birth, I had only really been living in two of the rooms. The bedroom and the work room. Now,
in order to truly be equipped to have and give the most of myself to Grace in her new home, I needed to actually live in all the rooms of my house. I needed to add more ‘rooms’ and a new foundation and better framing. When they say raising a child is the toughest job you will ever have, they forget to tell you why. You aren’t raising them, they are raising you to a new and higher level of consciousness.
So lets start with the beginning. Your very first changes. Create freely. Have fun with this.
What do you remember thinking when you were first handed your newborn and looked into those beautiful eyes for the first time?
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What did you feel?
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What did you say?
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Who was in the delivery room with you?
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What did your baby’s father or your friend or family say?
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Looking back, when you first learned you were pregnant, what was
going on in your life?
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What was occurring in the life of your family?
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Was it a busy time, a sad time or a happy time?
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Did you feel overwhelmed? Overjoyed? Excited? Frightened? All of the above and more?
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If your little one has siblings, how did you imagine they would react when the new baby entered the family? Share your hopes. What were your fears? What actually happened?
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Was there a particular moment you can recall when you laughed so hard with your new little one you know you’ll never forget it?
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What did you fear you would have to learn right away in order to take care of your newborn?
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What did you actually have to learn right away?
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What was the most difficult first challenge you faced?
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Did your house look different to you when you first came home with your baby? Was there a hutch you no longer liked in the living room? An oversized chair you longed to buy? Did a whole room seem like it just no longer fit?
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Did you need to rearrange a room so your baby could be closer to you? Did you wonder, “how are we going to keep living in this house at all? Where do we even start? How do we even begin?”
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