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We all know it: being a mom is challenging. On top of providing the basic food, clothing and shelter for our precious little ones, we also have to do all those other things (you know, get food on the table, keep our homes in order, educate, inspire and so much more) that compel us to simply be good moms to our children.
Starting today, Aquafresh wants to connect with moms and find out how “Mom Works Beyond” the call of duty! To spur your participation and sharing of how you “work beyond,” Aquafresh is giving one lucky Baby GoodBuys reader a $50 Walmart gift card! In addition to the gift card, the winner will also be nominated for the grand prize in the Mom Works Beyond contest: a year’s worth of Aquafresh and a $500 WalMart shopping spree!
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Well technically I won’t be a mom till the end of August. However after struggling with infertility taking that pregnancy test in Dec. and finally seeing a positive was sucha an overwhelming and joyful feeling. We feel incredibly blessed for our little girl who we can’t wait to me!
I love when my 16 month gets up from a nap and immediately begins calling out , “Gracie!” and looking for her 4 year old sister. They are already the best of friends.
I think my most proud (and hopefully inspiring to new moms) moment as a mom is the fact that I breastfed our daughter for an entire year. She has a sensitivity to milk protein so breastmilk was best for her. I had to avoid dairy, spicy food (yum!), medications to help with migraines, and coctails (ouch!) for her, pump while working full time, and endure all the hassles and pumpcapades that go with breastfeeding. Well worth it though! She’s a strong, smart, healthy baby.
Having my body being covered in as many bruises as my 3 and 1 year old from being jumped on constantly.! And..smiling the whole time.
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It still amazes me how much I love my little boy. I was always told (as we all are) that you just won’t understand the love you have for a child until you actually have a child. So true! My husband and I are both in awe of the love we have for our little guy. He is three and he’s the love of our lives. Even though we have our challenges with him….he IS a three year old, after all….he makes us laugh so much. I am so lucky to be able to stay home with him. It’s a true blessing.
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My most memorable moment was having my toddler spontaneously give me a kiss and say “I love you” for the first time! It made the sleepless nights worth it.
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Giving birth to my baby girl was my most memorable moment. It was amazing.
Every hug and kiss I get now and to hear, “I love you mommy” is just wonderful.
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I was in labor for 36 long hours. And because I got an infection during the last 3 hours of labor and had a fever, they told me my son would have to stay in the special care nursery for the next three days to make sure the infection didn’t spread to him. So when I finally gave birth, they took him away. I had to wait four hours to see him…but when I did, it was the most wonderful sight. He was the most precious little boy in the world. He ended up being fine and healthy. My son is now 6 months old, and I love spending every minute of every day with him!
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“A mother’s work is never done” is the truest statement ever! I work full time so the mornings are busy getting myself ready for work and then waking up my 20 month old – getting him dressed and out the door is a challenge in itself! Then we are off to school for the day! At the end of the day I pick up my son and we head home for some outside play time – then its dinner, bath, more play time, and off to bed! But the day isnt over yet – I clean up the house, exercise, get my son’s breakfast and lunch ready for the next day and then its usually time for me to go to bed! Days as a mommy are long and very trying sometimes but I wouldnt give it up for the world. One smile from my little guy and my heart melts!
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Telling my son not to stick the crayon up his nose or to not color on his face with crayons!
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The most inspiring moment for me was when my son smiled at me for the first time. We had some medical conerns with my son, who is my first born. Not to mention colic. I was so afraid I wasn’t cut out to be a mom. It wasn’t until my son smiled at me for the first time, and no, we aren’t talking about a gas smile or the smile babies give when they are falling asleep. This was an honest to goodness smile. It made it all worth it. Now, he is seven months old, happy and healthy, thank God!
My memorable moment is my oldest, now 6 kissing my belly when I was expecting my daughter. After labor he went to visit me in the hospital and his first words were “my baby.” That moment just melts my heart.
In 2006, I retired from a 30 yr career. I was looking to a life of leisure. My daughters were grown, married and a families of their own. In early Oct my youngest called, in hysteria, her 2 yr old was in the emergency room having a grand mal seizure. These seizures continued to occur daily and I left my leisure life and move 3000 miles to help. My daughter not only had this child but 4 others under 8. This little boy needed to have hands on, all day and night. And the stress on the family was tremendous. My daughter, now, had one more adult to relive her. We followed a regimen of meds, nutritional therapy, and chiropractic medicine and 4 yrs later he is seizure free and I moved out to live my life of leisure.
2 months later, this same daughter announced she was having #6. This yet to be born baby girl has a heart arrhythmia and suspicious amniotic fluid. We are all holding our breath until she is born. (Any day now) If this little girl needs more care then my daughter can handle, (along with 5 other kids), I will again leave my life of leisure.
Why? Because that’s what Mom’s do.
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My baby girl was born a week late. We were going to induce labor on a Tuesday, but she came on her own on Monday, which happened to be MY birthday as well. We will forever be “birthday twins”.
My most memorial memory of being a mom is when my step-son was messing around after a Volunteer Youth Civil Patrol Cadet Search and Rescue Meeting with his friend. These two boys knew I needed to get them both home, so I could get to my night job on time, but they just keep messing around and taking off where I couldn’t find them. Finally they came and got in the car. I was hopping mad. On the trip to get them both home we have to take part of a very dark divided highway. On the highway my son says look at all the flashing lights. There’s been a wreck. My son said “That could have been us.” He was right. If the boys hadn’t messed around we would have likely been in that. Seems a lady that wanted to commit suicide came down the wrong side of the divided highway. The wreck happened where there is a big hill and the person driving into her wouldn’t have seen her until it was to late.
The paper the next day said the time of the accident and that was normally the time we would have been on that road. She killed herself. The man in the other vehicle was seriously and permanently hurt too. I’m so thankful my step-son and his friend were little stinkers that night, and messed around. I don’t even care that I ended up being late to work that night. Thank you honey, for being a boy.
i had a surgery, which was pretty big, but because i was breast feeding my doc worked with me and let me out at 11pm..to go home and oump and dump so that i would be there when he woke up hungry
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My most inspiring moment. Giving birth to my youngest daughter in a natural water birth. Being able to look in her eyes and know that life was forever changed!
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Memorable moments are those times he stops breastfeeding long enough to smile at me and gets right back to eating. Or when his eyes are closed at night and he’s eating and he “head bangs” into my breast, trying to find his meal. LOL. It’s priceless.
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One of my most memorable moments was when my baby girl first gave me a real smile!
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The biggest event as a mom that I’ve ever faced is when my daughter was born 13 weeks too early. I had a 2 year old son at home who needed his mom and a critically ill daughter who was in a hospital an hour away. I was torn daily on where I should be. I also had to learn how to give my son some sort of normalcy. Of course, soon I learned that what I was going through was nothing compared to what I had to deal with when our daughter died at 6 weeks old. It would have been so easy to just go to bed and stay there. Definitely was not an option for me. Our families were both far away and my husband had to work. I had to learn to put on a happy face for my son and keep living. There were plenty of times that he saw me cry but I really tried to save all my tears for after he went to bed. I struggled so much but was determined to keep living while also keeping my daughter’s memory alive. I did all the hard work necessary to get through that time. I have also been able to use my experience to help other moms. I will never understand why our daughter was taken from us, but I have learned to cherish the short time we had with her and to love every single moment I have with our children.
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My memorable moment came a few weeks after the birth of my twins. I was having difficulty with scheduling their feedings, pumping and getting in rest and I broke down and cried. I didn’t know if I could do it. Having two babies vying for my attention. My mom gave me a virtual slap in the face and told me that I wanted these babies. I cried because I was having trouble conceiving and now that I had them, I was still crying. She said snap out of it. And I looked at her, thought to myself that she is the meanest woman alive. Then I stopped crying and realized she was right. They are 16 months now and I am still alive and so are they!
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