9 Months

by beth on December 7, 2009

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It’s been nearly 9 months since D-man joined the family.

In the time since the day we met face to face in the hos­pi­tal a lot has stayed the same & a lot has changed. One the biggest changes is I am no longer in school. Today I picked up my cap & gown for the for­mal­ity of grad­u­a­tion, but offi­cially I was done the day I defended. While head­ing home with D-man in tow & prepar­ing to get the elder chil­dren at their var­i­ous school times I real­ized that the last part of my writ­ing, get­ting it ready for defense, took roughly the same amount of time as my preg­nan­cies, 9 months. It involved a lot of sac­ri­fice and hard labor.

Only I don’t have the after­glow of hav­ing a baby.

There is noth­ing to cud­dle when you fin­ish a dis­ser­ta­tion. Because trust me cud­dling a bunch of paper is not as much fun as a new baby. For one paper doesn’t have that new baby smell, that smell you snug­gle in closer to get. It’s like breath­ing in rain­bows. And sec­ondly, the paper isn’t warm, with the soft­est skin that has a soft fuzzi­ness to it as if you wrapped up sun­shine in a layer of cot­ton candy. Instead it’s paper, it is bland & gives you paper cuts if you try to cud­dle with it. Not that I have but if I did try to cud­dle my dis­ser­ta­tion then I’d have this piece of wis­dom babies win hands down in the cud­dling & rain­bows department.

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1 Julie December 7, 2009 at 5:51 pm

Grrrrrl! I’d be *making out* with that sucker.

Kidding.

But I might think about it.

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2 beth December 10, 2009 at 10:19 am

Sure you’re kidding, sure ;)

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3 Michelle December 7, 2009 at 6:54 pm

What a beautiful picture!

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4 beth December 10, 2009 at 10:19 am

Thank you–babies make any photo better.

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5 Dawn December 7, 2009 at 10:32 pm

That is such a beautiful picture. It’s nice to be able to put a face with a name. You’re very pretty. You have that same look that Angelina Jolie had when she was on the cover of People Magazine last year with her twins. Such pure delight in your new baby.

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6 beth December 10, 2009 at 10:20 am

Thank you, babies do bring out that delight. It’s just amazing to think about how we all started off that small & delightful.

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7 Lisa December 7, 2009 at 10:35 pm

I LOVE that picture. Beautiful.

And yeah, I’ve tried cuddling with my laptop, but it just doesn’t hold the same allure.

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8 beth December 10, 2009 at 10:22 am

I agree cuddling the laptop doesn’t have the same positive feeling. It can also get overheated, I mean if you cuddled while it was on. Not that I tried that, but if I had. Hmmm…I better just stop while ahead :D

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9 Nyx December 8, 2009 at 1:03 am

babies are so much better than disserations (speaking from experience).

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10 beth December 10, 2009 at 10:18 am

And they snuggle back, which is a huge bonus. The babies, not the dissertations.

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11 Doula December 8, 2009 at 9:18 am

Beth!! What a beautiful picture! I love it!

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12 beth December 10, 2009 at 10:18 am

Thanks Doula!

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13 faemom December 8, 2009 at 9:06 pm

That is a beautiful picture! Babies are definantly better to cuddle. But the nine months to make them is less work than the dissertation. Be proud of that. And then cuddle with D-man

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14 beth December 10, 2009 at 10:18 am

And the way you start off those babies is more fun than starting off the dissertation process ;)

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15 smilinggreenmom December 9, 2009 at 4:46 pm

Oh Bethie…is that you hun? You are breath-taking! AND now YOU got ME all misty-eyed too LOL! I had my yearly OBGYN appt last week and hubs and I do not want to have any more children as we are so blessed already with our two. But, I totally got all sappy being there and oh how I miss the days of ours being so teeny :) It goes so fast. I can smell that baby smell so perfectly still :)

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16 beth December 10, 2009 at 10:17 am

Yep, that’s me. I totally understand the misty-eyed factor, I still have a baby around but you show me a newborn & my ovaries ache.

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17 Aimee December 10, 2009 at 10:27 am

Congratulations! I am in the dissertation process and know how easy it would be to ‘walk away!’ Love the picture….

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18 amber December 12, 2009 at 10:41 am

Congratulations! Finishing a dissertation is an amazing achievement.

And that baby is beautiful. Mine just turned 8 months. It’s amazing how fast time flies, isn’t it?

Happy Sharefest!

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