{"id":2790,"date":"2011-09-13T22:23:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T22:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mojitomother.com\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2013-08-27T09:38:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:38:12","slug":"run-mother-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mojitomother.com\/2011\/09\/run-mother-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Run Mother Run"},"content":{"rendered":"
After childbirth was over and I lay shaking and convulsing on the delivery bed, I asked the midwife if I was okay and this was normal.<\/p>\n
“Of course, You have just experienced what is equivalent to a marathon.”<\/strong><\/p>\n That was two weeks ago and I don’t feel like I have stopped running.<\/p>\n Since Savannah was born<\/a><\/strong> life has been racing along and Ive been trying to keep up. Father’s Day, blogging assignments due, Craig leaving, Kalyra’s b’day<\/a><\/strong> and just general living.<\/p>\n And now that Craig has gone, I feel like the marathon has turned into a sprint.<\/strong> From the minute I wake, (after a newborn disrupted sleep mind you) I run from one mother task to another.<\/p>\n There’s food to prepare, a house to clean,<\/a><\/strong> children to dress, clothes to wash, things scattered around to pick up, appointments to make, people to see, problems to solve, \u00a0blog posts to write, emails to respond to, a toddler to play with, a baby to put to sleep, constant production in the mother-milk factory, and somewhere in there I gotta breathe<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n I literally run non-stop all day long. I was even running at four am yesterday when Savannah peed everywhere while changing her mid-feed and then Kalyra came running out as she had weed in her bed.<\/p>\n Change Savannah, change Kalyra, change sheets, feed Savannah, get her down to sleep again, cuddle Kalyra as she is missing Daddy, and get her back to sleep.<\/p>\n And then last night running back and forth to the toilet bowl, carrying Kalyra so she could throw up there rather than my bed.<\/p>\n Run, run, run.<\/strong><\/p>\n