Motherhood
...mely excited and said “Yes.” The doctor then said I don’t want to get your hopes up Motherhood is Very Rewarding 3 but sometimes we can’t always find it. I wish he wouldn’t have said that, because I was thinking if we didn’t hear it something was wrong. I still chose to go along with it. At first all I could hear was a sound like my stomach growling. Then I heard a noise that sounded like a little drum pounding very fast. The doctor said “That’s it.” I started to cry knowing that I just got to hear my own baby’s heartbeat. I think that is one of the best and most rewarding aspects of being a mother. I think that because I actually got to hear her very own heartbeat. This made me really realize that I was going to be a mother. Well, I don’t know about that about everything is to me. It’s just too hard to try and choose one. Another great moment while I was pregnant was getting an ultrasound done. That is when the doctor used a device to put on my stomach and it then would show the baby. At first it’s kind of hard to see but after a few minutes I got the understanding of it. The doctor could have also told my boyfriend and me the sex of your baby this way. I choose not to do that because I wanted it to be a surprise for when she was born. Then about three-fourths of the way through my pregnancy I was getting very anxious to have her and start our lives together with her dad. Time went by and it was down to a few weeks before my due date. I then began to try all of the home remedies to brig on labor. I would go for long walks, eat pepperoni pizza, and go for a bumpy ride in the car. Now it seems silly to do those things, but it was my first child and I couldn’t wait. This brings me to my next point. When the day came that I went into labor I was scared. It hit me that my life was soon going to change dramatically forever. I thought that I was finally going to have what Motherhood is Very Rewarding 4 I was waiting for, for nine months. By the time the whole process of giving birth was over the doctor first said, “It’s a girl.” He then laid my baby girl on my chest and she then looked at me and stopped crying. I then began to cry as I looked at the miracle I helped create. The closeness I felt at that point was like nothing I have ever felt before. It seemed like she knew exactly who I was. That made me feel very special. The next few days while in the hospital we even got to make a bond that only mothers and their child can have. We got to do this because I was the only one who could feed her. I was the only one who could feed her because I chose to breastfeed. Many of my doctors told me that was the best way for me to bond and indeed I thought that it was. After a few days we left the hospital and went to our home. I made sure everything was all ready and perfect before we got there. Her room needed to be spotless, everything was waiting for her, and our house needed to be cleaner than anything. For the next few weeks my boyfriend and I along with our little girl, had a constant schedule of eating, sleeping, and changing diapers. Except Abriana, our daughter couldn’t do the part of changing diapers. She was good at the rest though. I did not mind this because this was a responsibility of becoming mother and it also brought me closer to my little princess. Then next few months were packed full of great new experiences and unforgettable moments. Form her laughing at everything we did or she saw, to getting her first tooth were all moments that I will always remembe...