Honey’s Rules: Finding the Sweet Life by Honey Lou Abelgas

Author:Honey Lou Abelgas [LOU ABELGAS, HONEY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Self-Help / Motivational & Inspirational, Self-Help / Personal Growth / Success, Self-Help / Personal Growth / Self-Esteem
Publisher: Gildan Media Corporation
Published: 2014-05-20T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 5

Mother Me

“Tell the children the truth.”

Bob Marley

It’s just human nature, I truly believe. Women are born with this maternal gift should we choose to have children. Once a woman becomes pregnant, we’re prepping for motherhood already and we don’t even realize it.

For example, while pregnant during the last trimester we often find ourselves going to the bathroom in wee hours of the night. I would just get up from my sleep without feeling as groggy as I would when I’m not pregnant. I’d wake up about 3-5 times in the evening depending on how much I had to drink. I’ve made a connection with post pregnancy when we have to get up at night because the baby is hungry and needs to be fed. Women may come from different lifestyles but when we become a mother, we begin to tap into the universal energy of motherhood. From not being able to wake up, to being trained naturally by your instinct to get up every 2-3 hours to feed your baby, to me this should be considered one of the beauties in life of being a woman, that our bodies just know when and how to adjust.

Being so young, I wasn’t educated enough about becoming a mother and having children when my first son was born. I really didn’t have any expectations. I took it one day at a time and I relied on just going with my gut instincts on what was right and following my maternal intuition.

There’s been many times when the midwives, nurses and even doctors would tell me what to do and how to do it but I’d often disagree. One example, I had a friend of mine who was the type to try to always go by the book. One day her child started getting rashes on her face and she took her to the doctors. The doctor prescribed a cream as he said it was only eczema and it would go away within 5-7 days and to come back then. During the 5-7 days the rashes started to worsen, spreading all through the child’s body. During this time, the parent still took the doctor’s advice and kept putting the prescribed cream. The rash had gotten so severe and still–they waited it out. After the 7 days, they went back to the doctors and the doctor was shocked to see how bad the rashes had gotten and how much it had spread that he even asked “Why didn’t you take her to emergency?” Come to find out the child had developed some sort of Herpes rash (which I later found this was actually common in kids) and they can get it anywhere. I’m not saying do not listen to what the doctor has to say but you have to also listen to that gut feeling when you look at your child and something inside you says, “This doesn’t seem right”. There’s nothing wrong with challenging the doctor’s diagnosis, they’re humans too and often make mistakes, it happens all the time.

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