3.23.2007

The scar

You know, I often look at all of my scars, I poke em, and squish em, and just generally check to see if they are still there. However I never pay much attention to my C-section scar, because my doctor is so amazing it was barely visible weeks after the surgery. I looked at it today. It is gone. Not gone gone, I mean, since I knew it was there I can see a very faint half inch of it left. However, if I were to pull down my pants and try and prove to you I had a C-section, you would laugh in my face, as there really is no scar there to the visible eye. I am sadder then I thought I would be. My mom, and my friends all still have their scars. I have nothing. I mean if I push really hard, I can tell something is different there, but I can't just look down and enjoy that memory. Now I'm about to have another baby, probably another scar and I can't help but think, this scar is just going to cover up Brandon's. That makes me feel all symbolic, as if this new baby is going to somehow overshadow my son. I hope I am strong enough not to do that. I hope this new scar vanishes also and I can say I just have great skin or something. That would be much easier then feeling like I lost a piece of my son for a new replacement baby. Moms of two kids, how do you do it? How do you love them both the same. How do you keep the older one from getting jealous? Do you make sure to spend alone time with them both, so the older one knows you haven't forgotten? And how on earth, is it possible to have two kids and still remember your husband?

4 comments:

Jen said...

I have no idea what it is like to be in your place, but I can say this: From the time that I was first able to speak in sentences I begged for a little brother or sister until I was finally granted one. At the time I had no idea of the fertility problems my parents were having, all I knew is that I wanted a sibling to share my life with. Fron the moment my mom got pregnant I was extatic about our "new addition".

I have loved my sister more than I ever believed that anyone could love ANYTHING in my entire life. I'm assuming that may change when I have kids, but I hope not. Don't get me wrong, my sister and I are complete OPPOSITES in EVERY WAY and we drive each other crazy regularly, but we LOVE each other.

I have NEVER felt like my mom or dad loved either one of us more than the other. We have always been given equal love. (even tho my sister used to push me off of my mom's lap when we were younger so that she could sit there).... But I think YOU definitely have enough love to go around, and the fact that you are having a second child will only thrill your son and make his life fuller and happier knowing that he can have someong (almost) just like him to share it with.

Siblings are truely an amazing gift. I know I am being a sentimental dork. But you should have as many kids as you have time for because they will turn out great and you can never have too many great people in the world.

Ok... I'm done rembling now.

Jen said...

OMG- Sorry for all the lame typos in my last comment.

Kim said...

i agree wtih jeninacide. i have an older sister and we are SUPER DUPER close. we talk like 5 times a day and see each other at least every other day. i sometimes wonder if i am depriving Little Man of that if we decide not to have another one. that bond that brandon and the new baby will share will be matched by nothing else.

now, i want your doctor because my scar is EXTRA SUPER visable and everything in my abdomen has felt weird since i got home. i had 29 staples in mine, what happened to the 4 inch scar that would be left I'd like to ask my doctor.....but he's in TX. if we have another one i am finding a plastic surgeon to come sew me up and do a little tummy tuck while their at it. hey, i'm already open might as well take care of it now. kidding about that, but it would be nice.

Anonymous said...

All your questions ... oh my I visit them often. With four weeks to go I am freaking out. What if I hurt Becca's feelings? How can I love this little guy as much as her? I love her soooo much!!

All I can tell you is that moms reassure me constantly that you just do .... you just do ...

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