Congratulations Your A Mommy

As the title reads, I received an email from Nestle today titled with those very words...Congratulations Your a Mommy!  It stung. Bad.

I received this email quite possibly because Annabella's estimated due date was this coming Saturday, September 21st. Although it was an estimate this date is becoming much more unanticipated then I had thought.

In two weeks time I would have been guaranteed a new life. I should have been staying up to the wee hours of the morning, breastfeeding, singing lullabies, and rocking my baby to sleep. In two weeks I would have been guaranteed all these things. Things I wanted so badly.

Despite the initial sting of those words I am also reminded that I am a mother. I have come to realize that yes pregnancy doesn't always guarantee a child to hold, to rock, to feed, but it does make us moms. I am very different than many mothers but one thing we do have in common is the deepest and strongest love for our children.

I am fortunate for the seven months I spent with my daughter. I took care of her, spoke to her, poked at my belly to say hello. I am so very fortunate I got to meet her, kiss her, and soak her in. For some moms the time spent with their babies is much shorter but they are still moms, just very different.

I am a mother with no baby to hold but not a day goes by that I don't take her with me for is she always in my heart and on my mind.