A Mother's Habits

You prepare yourself to lose your mind for the 9 months you are pregnant. You hear the horror stories about how you will forget things seconds after you thought of them. The baby makes you lose your mind quite literally. What no one tells you because it is hard to put into words is that the baby also replaces your mind with something of its making. Every habit you had may or may not disappear but new ones will form that will not go away until long after your child is grown. I can only give examples but to truly understand I would think that you would have to experience it firsthand.
The best example is the gentle sway. Now the gentle sway is quite different than swaying in general. I used to sway from side to side and back and forth before I had a baby. I am a fidgety person. I can't hold still, even in sleep. My swaying movements were wild and monkey-like compared to now. I move side to side so gentle as to not wake the baby. Even when I do not have the baby in my arms I sway in the gentle rocking motion subconsciously. I have to make an effort to stop, actually. Another example along these lines is the back and forth motion with the shopping cart. With or without baby, I gently rock the cart. In less than a month it has become habit. Truthfully, it was less than a week. I used to laugh at the women who did that because I thought they were mental. Weird things that a crazy person would do. Now I have become one of those crazy people. The only other people who know what is going on is another mother. I guess we are all crazy in some way.
My mother who has not had practice with a baby in 27 years picked up these habits as if she had only had the baby yesterday. Proof positive that years from now I will be the same. For all you expectant mothers out there, you may have a grasp of what I am talking about, but when your baby is born you will definitely know.

On a personal side note, the in-laws are coming for a visit. There is great excitement and trepidation in the  house. Although, once they have seen the house, I will post the picture of the newly remodeled place on here or Facebook.