Tell us about your first day at something — school, work, as a parent, etc.
When I found out I was pregnant with my oldest son, it didnt hit me until I heard his strong heartbeat. There were tears in my eyes because I was told prior to that I wouldn’t be able to have kids. Again when I heard his strong heartbeat it hit that I was going to be somebody’s mom. I did everything that I could do to prepare for him but all you’re really doing is preparing for an arrival.
His arrival was ‘an arrival’. He was two weeks late and my labor had to be induced. After feeling those labor pains I found out that I had to have a c-section in order to bring him safely into this chaotic world.
They cut me opened and pulled him out and laid him on my chest. I fell in love. They weighed, measured, cleaned him off and when it was time they asked if I wanted him in the nursery or in the room with me. I chose the later. That night I took him out of the bed and held him in my arms all night. I breathed in his newborn scent, kissed him all over his cute little face. The only time I let him go was to go to th3 bathroom and when his grandparents and dad wanted to hold him and when the doctor had to check me out.
As I type this Im sitting at his indoor track meet for his junior year in high school. I look at him and wish that I can go back to that first day of holding him as a baby. I know that I can’t butnI can can always go back to that memory.
Arnittress Dowdy 