Mommy Loves You Baby Girl :*

Being a mom is an indescribable feeling. I enjoy every single little thing about it. Most people would say that it gets tiring and aggravating, but I have yet to feel that way, honestly. My daughter amazes me every second of the day. Fortunately being a stay-at-home mom means that I don’t miss any part of her growing up, especially during this time when she is growing so quickly. It’s as if she’s growing right before my eyes! I notice progress every day, it’s incredible.

Zebra Baby (:

Being a young mom (I’m 20 years old) is another stereotype that I “fall under” which I’m not at all ashamed of it. As a matter of fact, I prefer being a young mom versus an older mom because I can grow with my daughter as well as being able to do things with her while we’re both young. I love the fact that I ALWAYS have somebody to go somewhere with. I enjoy the fact that being a mom is a job that I love without being paid, I love that being on call 24/7 gives me something to do since I hate the feeling of not having anything to do, and I love the fact that I am so lucky to have a good baby that gives me opportunities not to have to do anything.

I Love Mommy ♥

The littlest things she does helps me discover her unique personality every day. Things like her falling into a dead sleep when she’s laying on me. I can go walking around, talking loud, going here going there, she won’t wake up. But as soon as I put her down, no more than 3 minutes later she starts crying realizing that I’m not there anymore. As soon as I pick her up, she stops and falls right back asleep. Is that not the cutest thing ever? It fills me with love.

Her Face?! Too Cute!

She’ll probably love pedicures, or getting foot massages because she LOVES when you play with her feet. It calms her down almost every time she fusses.

I have rarely heard stories of babies who don’t cry during bath time, but Natalia doesn’t. She loves bath time and the feeling of her body being massaged with warm water and getting clean. I wash her head full of hair real good which she appreciates I’m sure.

My Little Ray of Sunshine <3

She will probably be a morning person because she’s always in such a good mood when she wakes up, and usually “cranky” or fussy at night if I wait too long to put her to bed. Early riser, early sleeper; opposite of me.

Waiting for the Doctor.

She’s starting to turn her head to follow me wherever I go. I even read in an article sent to my email about baby stages for her age (which is 1 month and 10 days old today) that she will start recognizing people, sounds, and environments. I have been noticing that Natalia seems to know who her grandma is, and where her changing table is, and things like that. I imagine that she’s thinking “This is where she changes my diaper. Yay, Thanks mom!”, lol. She knows when it’s time to get changed because she’ll cry, and if she has a dirty diaper, I lay her down and start messing with her diaper and the crying stops. She used to cry all the way until you were entirely done, all the way to you snapping the last side.

My Cutie Pie <3

Natalia @ The Doctor’s

She’s very sensitive. Every little thing bothers her, from her clothes being uncomfortable, her seat being too hot or cold, her mouth is wet, when she has the littlest bit of poop in her diaper, every little thing. She’ll probably be a neat freak or perhaps a perfectionist like her mother. (;

She gets bored easily, which means she’ll probably be a busy body, not lazy thank God! She gets tired of being in one room too long and enjoys walking around (or being carried around) so she can look at different things. I feel like this will make her a curious person, someone who wants to learn new things. She seems to enjoy it when I go outside with her. I think the fresh air, sunlight and the company of animals makes her calm and happy. It’s adorable.

At the Dr.’s Matching. (:

What’s even more adorable is that my 3 little dogs seem to know that she’s a baby, that she’s my baby. Shoot, they knew when I was pregnant, they could feel it. I could tell. They acted different. I remember them sniffing my belly as if they knew there was a little being in there. When I brought the baby home the dogs were so curious to see her and sniff her. I let them sniff her little foot and it was as if they knew she was my baby and accepted her right away. It was interesting to see the dogs and the way they reacted. Even the youngest of them, Bandit, acts like her big brother. When she cries, her runs to where the cry is coming from, barks, then runs back to us and barks again as if saying “Hey, hey! The baby’s crying!”. It’s the funniest, cutest little thing.

My Everything ♥

I love it when she’s feeding, and she has her hands holding me and closing and opening her fingers over and over again. It tickles sometimes, but it’s such an amazing feeling to feel those tiny little hands that I made kneading on me like a kitten nursing on their mommy. Sometimes I’ll look away, and when I look back down at her I catch her staring at me. It’s a very touching experience, I love it so much.

Her First Bath.

Every little detail of everything about her fills my entire body with love. Even things like her crying and her poop. She cries like a little lamb and says “mmbaaaaaaaaaa!” and I can’t help but think how adorable she sounds. Her poop is nasty, but then she acts so cool and cute about getting changed that I forget all about how nasty it is. Even her farts and burps are cute! They’re so loud she makes me think there’s another adult in the room with us, lol! That little girl is so funny she could be a comedian already.

We matched. (:

The way Natalia stares at me while I do my hair, or put on my makeup is another thing she does that melts my heart. I can already tell she’s going to love hair and makeup just like me. <3

All the little things she does and the things I notice make me enjoy being a mom so much more. I even told my mom last night that I loved being a mom. She told me that I loved it more than she did, and that made me feel good, or more confident that I was a good mom because my mom was a wonderful mother to me and my sister. (:

I ordered a bunch of pictures of her and of me when I was pregnant to start scrap booking and decorating the baby book.

Left: Buddy, Right: Bandit

By the way, my apologies for the slack on blogging. I have been very busy enjoying every minute of Natalia’s life and getting things organized that I haven’t found the time to write any posts. But that will change. I plan to get back to my crafts that I want to finish, scrap booking, and getting things ready for college that I’m going to start this year in August. But that’s for another post later on. (:

One more thing, one of my very good friends Ashley took some professional photos of my little family which will be posted later on as well. Here’s a sneak peek to see what you have to look forward to! ♥

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My son is trying to break free, I’m sure he’s nice and warm in there and R’s womb is providing a hotel experience like no other but that doesn’t stop him trying to break out.

We can see his little whatevers (arms etc) rubbing on the inside, if you look closely you can see R’s belly looking like the scene in Alien.

It’s canny like, putting my hand on her belly is an amazing feeling and something you can’t explain…..one of those things eh!

“If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that’s about as romantic as I can think of.”

~ Ryan Goslin

Rubbing the belly of a Laughing Buddha statue is meant to bring good luck and good fortune.

I’m not sure what rubbing the belly of a sweaty and overweight Honduran man would bring, but if I wanted to do so I would have plenty of opportunities.

There is a phenomenon here in Honduras no one has been able to adequately explain to me. I have lost count the number of men I have seen in the streets with their t-shirts pulled up to their armpits, bellies proudly on display.

The most common pose is slouched, leaning against a wall, with one hand lightly rubbing the exposed belly.

If they were Ryan Gosling lookalikes I could probably understand this as a bit of masculine peacocking. However it’s rarely a six pack that’s being proudly revealed for all to see. These are big, bulging, occasionally hairy, bellies.

I’ve asked many people, why this is done? And apart from, “it’s probably because they’re hot,” I haven’t been given a satisfying explanation.

I would have thought that if it was too hot to wear a shirt, you’d take it all the way off. Not just hike it upwards to display your belly.

I’m tempted to give it a go myself, just to see if there’s something I’m missing. Maybe there’s no greater feeling than a cool breeze on your warm belly?

But recent events have led me to feel a little self-conscious, so for now I’m leaving belly-flashing to the pros.

I would have loved to include a real life photo in this post for illustrative purposes, but it’s hard to snap of pic of a man’s belly in a discrete manner!

Love!

My first post natal video, my core is still a little weak since it is only a little over 5 weeks since I gave birth. But I am slowly getting there. This workout is very short, since the body has a lot to work on already. Remember no woman is a like, and no body is a like. You are the only one that knows your own. For more information on working out before/during and after pregnancy. Go to t”pregnancy and children.”

The direct link to read about the separation of the abs is:

The mommy- tummy pooch and abdominal wraps after birth why?

Kim Kardashian first revealed her bare pregnant belly in an Instagram photo last month and this month she is baring it all in a teeny bikini on the cover of Us Weekly magazine.

The 32-year-old appears on the cover of this week’s Us Weekly alongside the headline “Kim dares to bare: You Call This Fat?” In the photo, Kim bares her baby bump and curvy pregnant body in a skimpy purple bikini. The shot was taken while she was soaking up the sun in Mykonos, Greece, with her family.

“She’s loving the seventh month,” a source told the magazine of the gorgeous reality star. “And she thinks pregnancy is so cute.”
Kim has had to deal with an onslaught of fat-shaming since shortly after her pregnancy was announced in December. From criticism about her clothing choices to guesses about how many pounds she has packed on, headlines continue to lambast the star while seeming to forget weight gain is a natural part of the process.

Still, she is embracing the changes (and Kanye West certainly thinks she’s awesome).
“She’s really great,” her sister, Khloe, told E! News last month. “I think she’s finally feeling great about her pregnancy. There’s an awkward time — you’re not really showing, [but] you don’t feel like your old self. So now that her bump is alive and in full effect, she’s having fun showing it off.”

In an E! News special with Ryan Seacrest, Kim revealed that being pregnant hasn’t been so easy for her. She admitted she is in physical pain “everywhere” and expected something different.

“‘I was waiting for this amazing experience where I can just do whatever I want, eat whatever I want, feel great… and it hasn’t been that way,” she said.

“But, I love him dear,
and I love him dear,
and I’ve loved him hundreds of thousands of years.”

Back in the early 90′s, when my oldest was just a baby and we still lived with her Father, there used to be this coffee house that we all went to that I truly loved. It was not even a full block from the apartment we lived in, and no matter what time of day or night I stopped in, I always saw someone I knew. There was live music in the back, random and interesting conversations everywhere to be a part of, and coffee.

The album that this song is from came out around then, and often it was playing from out of the kitchen. Sometimes I stayed around after closing, often because my Ex was working a shift there, or someone else I knew was. This album played often, more than often, and I cannot hear a single song off of it without being reminded of that little cafe. This was my initial favorite off the album, and still remains my favorite today. I would often pair it up with Kate Bush’s song, Man With the Child In His Eyes back then, on mix tapes I would make, both songs representing timeless, eternal and ageless love, to me.

This song also reminds me of reading Richard Bach’s Bridge Across Forever, which I read around that same early 90′s time, and which also ties into the timeless, eternal and ageless love theme, to me.

Stay :: Belly

So today, just a quick note, and a simple photo, capturing a quiet moment of solitude (or as  close to solitude as a pregnant mum can get!).  My goodness that belly is growing.. hard to believe we’ve got three more months of getting even bigger.

Many people were skeptical of Kim Kardashian’s pregnancy and compared it to Beyonce not showing off her stomach when she was pregnant. This photo might finally silence many doubting fans. You can’t please everyone.. We’re just going to have to wait until the baby is born . Congrats Kim !

And so part deux…

As we looked at in the last blog about stubborn belly fat, stress is a major contributor as it raises cortisol levels and screws you over by encouraging fat storage and causing muscle breakdown.
I’m assuming you’ve already started your mission to get Zen like levels of calm by implementing the steps in part one. If so, well done you! If not, don’t skip ahead, no one likes a cheat ☺

One of the first things to look at is sleep. Sleep quality and time is directly influential on your cortisol levels, and as such can make a huge difference in your efforts to get and stay lean.
Getting less than 7.5 hours uninterrupted sleep per night, results in raised cortisol and 50% more insulin secretion (also bad news for fat loss). Cutting to 6 hours sleep from 8 hours results in around cortisol by 80% even after another 2 nights good sleep!

Scary stuff right?

So what to do about it?

1. Go to bed and wake up at the same time EVERY day.
This is by far one of the most effective things you can do to set your biological clock and give your best sleep and recovery. Yes it will suck the first time you get up at 6.00am on a Sunday but your body will get used to it. And just think of all that extra weekend you’ve just gained!

2. Exercise regularly
Exercising promotes serotonin and dopamine production, serotonin being especially useful in the regulation of sleep/ wake cycles. As little as 30 minutes of exercise 3-4 times per week over 4 months, has been shown to be as good as antidepressants without the unwanted side effects!

3. Prepare the bat cave
Reserve the bedroom for sleeping and other stuff essential to the survival of mankind.
Your body wants to be in a regular pattern of light and dark, so keep artificial light in the evening to a minimum and sleep in a completely darkened room, (think black out blinds and low wattage light bulbs).
Do away with any electrical stimulus such as TV’s and your mobile phone. Staring at backlight screens or artificial lights stimulates your brain and suppresses melatonin production.

In terms of nutrition and supplementation for reducing stress, that is an entire blog post in itself, and an area we will cover in detail further down the line.

Focus on nailing the stress management and getting a solid 8 hours uninterrupted sleep for now and check back for the next tasks.

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