09.27.22
9 months in my womb and more thab 12 hours of labor, and days without sleep but still looks like the dad.
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Once a woman gave birth, people are fascinated with what the baby's gonna look like, mother or father? It depends on the genes eh? Usually, moms react to their babies having their father's physical appearance more than the mother's.
I know a few people and myself too. On my part, I am happy that Lil B looks like her father because I want her to get her daddy's nose.
Lil b's facial features are somehow a combination of mine and her daddy's. It just sometimes depends on the angle and her facial expression too. Most people say that she looks like her dad. My friends say that she got my skin type and my genitals hahaha!
Why do mothers complain?
Imagine doing the hardest work from taking care of yourself and the baby inside your womb and bringing them out in the world, alive and kicking.
Imagine these:
3 months of feeling nauseous, lucky me I didn't experience that much.
3 months of food cravings, frustrations, and hormonal imbalance (or being emotional).
3 months of gaining so much weight, back pains, difficulty in breathing, and walking, or some pregnant women even get to be on bed rest.
After that you experience labor pains, lucky me again I didn't get much.
Pain in normal delivery just to get the baby out so you can recover quickly.
Some mothers like me had C-sections or emergency C-sections like me and took a bit longer to recover because of the stitches.
To breastfeeding moms, imagine the pain for the first few weeks when you first breastfeed your child.
Sleepless nights
And many more!
I know right! I am not trying to scare upcoming moms perhaps take this as a warning or a preparation.
It's not like we are comparing the mom's and dad's contributions to bringing out a child in the world but we want to at least get some credit by at least letting them look like us, the mother. HAHAHAH!
Kidding aside...
After one year of accepting and loving the fact that Lil B gets most of her physical features from her dad, what I am more frustrated about is she doesn't get to say MAMA or MOMMY. But she knows and calls her dad, dada or daddeh, especially when my husband gets home. She's rushing to the door and shouts Dadaa.
There were a few, A FEW TIMES when I try to tell her 'say mommeh, mama, memee' usually she does say it one time, most of the time she doesn't, just ignores me like Mommy isn't me.
What I find even more frustrating is she's now trying to imitate some sounds, names, and words that she hears or we ask her to say. One time, she heard the advertisement on Youtube of Lazada. You imagine the tone 'la-zada', she copied the tone and said LAAAA. She suddenly stopped because my husband reacted, but every time that she hears that ad, oh boy, she says 'ada'.
Can you imagine my frustration? She can even say or copy a few words but Mommy or Mama is still a no-go. She even said 'Chair' one time, she can say 'chuus' (shoes). She can say 'duuuug' (dog). Last night we were watching The Good Doctor before going to bed and I asked her, 'Baby do you want to be a doctor?', she nodded and said, 'dotor' (doctor).
Now can someone tell me why Mama or Mommy is so difficult for her to say? HAHAHAHAH just kidding.
Mama vs. Dada
I know that it shouldn't be a battle but I am close to taking this one seriously ahahahha!
Who's got the looks?
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The nose is actually from her dad HAHHAHA may baby din kami sa church tas na-adapt na niya pagsabi ng amen tas ang laki pa ng boses HAHAHHA babies are really adorable I might get one when the time is right.