\u201cJust please, don\u2019t touch me!\u201d\u00a0 No, it\u2019s not my girls arguing in the backseat of the car or during lunch.\u00a0 I wish I could say that\u2019s where I heard it, but in reality it came out of my mouth, directed at Honeybun.\u00a0 Perhaps I should be embarrassed or feel bad about saying such a thing to my child, but in the moment I just couldn\u2019t help myself.<\/p>\n
Any mommy knows how demanding a newborn can be.\u00a0 Babies need A LOT of A LOT of things.\u00a0 They need a lot of attention, a lot of love, a lot of affection, a lot of diaper changing, a lot of rocking, a lot of feeding and milk, a lot of PHYSICAL CONTACT.\u00a0 Take the needs of the sweetest little 6 week old baby and add that on top of the needs of a nearly 3 year old and a nearly 5 year old and you have one overstimulated mommy.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t get me wrong, I USUALLY love breastfeeding my babies (except maybe at night or when I\u2019m eating).\u00a0 And I USUALLY love getting hugs and kisses from my big girls.\u00a0 And I USUALLY love the way Doodle snuggles into me after a good feed.\u00a0 And I USUALLY love when my girls want to brush my hair or adorn me lovingly with clips.\u00a0 But there comes an occasional time when Doodle is happy somewhere other than my arms or at my breast and I\u2019m tired and all I want is SPACE. \u00a0It doesn\u2019t mean I don\u2019t want to be around my children or I don\u2019t want to play with them or watch them or talk to them, I just don\u2019t want to be touched by them.\u00a0 I just want to have my personal space bubble be unbreached for a few, small, insignificant minutes.<\/p>\n
I know my girls have to be feeling mommy neglected with all the time I have to spend taking care of Doodle.\u00a0 And I do feel guilty about that so I hug and kiss and love them all I can.\u00a0 And I know they don\u2019t understand why I need space sometimes but the truth of the matter is I just do.\u00a0 Every mommy\u2019s got her own needs and even a mommy deserves to have her needs met sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cJust please, don\u2019t touch me!\u201d\u00a0 No, it\u2019s not my girls arguing in the backseat of the car or during lunch.\u00a0 I wish I could say that\u2019s where I heard it, but in reality it came out of my mouth, directed at Honeybun.\u00a0 Perhaps I should be embarrassed or feel bad about saying such a thing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-baby-business","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}