The story of Tucker Ray, a 27-weeker with many diagnoses, and his baby brother, Easton John, a 34 weeker aka big brother's shadow. Here I post about the challenges and joys of working full time, caring for two rambunctious boys with my husband, and leaning on God for wisdom in the midst of the chaos.

Monday, August 28, 2006
Frustrations
This isn't really about Tucker-it's more about my frustration. I thought I had gotten over a lot of feelings in the last three months, but I guess I have not.
Tucker's due date was Friday and he turned three months old on Saturday. I guess that is just making all of the old angry feelings come back. It's like I never worked anything out or can't move on. The angry feelings are the ones: I missed out on the last 3 months of being pregnant-Tucker missed out on his best chance at his new life. I didn't get to see my baby for over 48 hours. I didn't get to hold him for over 7 weeks. He's not coming home until he's around 6 months old. It's just that I'm kind of mad at myself b/c I thought I had moved past this. But when I see a birth on TV or a movie, or see the new moms leaving the hospital with their babies when I go to see Tucker, it just all comes back. It's like I haven't gotten over it.
People keep telling me how well Chris and i are taking this, but sometimes I think "if they only knew." Two of my friends are 8 months pregnant with their first babies, and I feel like we should be swapping advice and fears, but I don't even know what 8 months pregnant feels like. And their babies are going to be home before Tucker, so I won't have any advice to give them, really. I am sick of feeling like this. I just want to be happy and supportive of other pregnant women, but I wonder how do I get over these feelings of resentment and of missing out? We want other children, and I am scared that when I have a full term baby, I will go through all of these feelings again, seeing what Tucker did not get to have. I just needed to let these feelings out, thanks for listening.
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