When aren't you a 'new mom' any more?
Posted Feb 6th 2006 4:29PM by Sarah GilbertFiled under: Moms, Blogging Baby Round Table
I was calling myself an "experienced mom" in an IM conversation with Karen and she asked, "when will I be an experienced mom?"
I shot back, "when you have your second child!"
But then I thought about it a minute and realized, hello, many people only have one child, while others pack one right on top of the other in a pregnancy doubleheader. "When your first child is two," I corrected myself, arbitrarily.
Later I called someone a "new mama" because her baby wasn't yet one year old, and wondered, is she a new mama? She seems so knowledgeable, now, with her giggling crawling 10-month-old. How much experience do you need before you go from "new mama" to "experienced mother"? When are you really a mom?
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