It was the first baby shower I'd actually looked forward to and it was lovely.
I still had the text message on my phone from when she found out she was pregnant. I remember I was right in the middle of the bath/ bedtime craziness and I remember thinking what a Big, Awesome God we serve because this baby is truly a miracle. No IVF, no treatments, no medication, nothing.
She often tells me I inspire her (because we both have that same fear of needles and I had my 2 IVFs) and I feel exactly the same because she faithfully hosted that infertility support group for 2.5 years now while women were falling pregnant left, right and centre.
We've had about 28 babies born in the group (can't remember exact numbers) and I know I couldn't have done seen all that happen without losing it.
It's always so interesting to see how different everyone is in their mothering style - K mentioned wanting to get a bottle warmer, about 3 of us said, "waste of money" and others said, "oh, absolutely get one".
The one thing that has saved us TONS of time with our babies is not warming milk, even in the dead of winter. A tip I learned at the multiples seminar that has stood me in good stead as I never had a baby screaming because it wanted warm milk, just because I was too slow :)
It was lovely to see everyone again and catch up on everyone's stories.
However, my dear husband D said to me when I got home, "why did you want to take the babies with you? No one cared that they were there and it's not fair to set them up for rejection like that"
My heart broke.
At least they were only there 15 minutes but still... this emotional stuff is hard.
He said if people want to see them, they should visit us like my one friend, R, did just before the meeting. R had some magic going on because Connor was laughing like crazy with her - such fun!
Very true.
Anyway, it was still a lovely day and at least the baby shower happened WHILE she was still pregnant. She's about 39 weeks now!
When K phoned me during the week, I saw her name come up on my phone and first thing I said was, "K, are you still pregnant?" LOL
What do you have planned this weekend?
After church tomorrow, we'll do more of what we did last Sunday - go play outside and let the kids eat stones and get dirty! And yes, that's a fake dog and the only one I'll be having until they're old enough to take care of an animal themselves :)
We are going to a baby shower tomorrow too! Well, the girls are going to stay home with daddy, since I'm hosting at church. It's for my best friend...her babies will be 16 months apart!! I'm going to post about it soon.
ReplyDeleteFirstly, Sat avie was really special, to celebrate K's miracle baby, and to share with our friends & fellow moms. Thank you M for organizing it, I think everyone enjoyed themselves.
ReplyDeleteAnd, I cared that K & C came to say hello. I love seeing all the babies. Maybe no-one paid them much attention beacause there was so many other things going on, other babies, special news sharing etc. I don't think it was because they didn't care, I just think there was so much happening. You know how it is when a group of women & children get-together, it's very busy & the conversation flies around....
Anyway, I was happy to see K & C. Shame, I think they were a bit over-whelmed though, all the people, noise etc.