Bree M- Health and Wellness

I just like to smile. Smiling’s my favourite! 🥰

A perfect pumpkin patch day w my loves 🍁

A chapter of life I will never forget. I am eternally grateful for the opportunity to create life, and feel that tiny human growing inside of me. The connection to that life preceded those two pink lines and will carry on long after we’ve moved on.

Thank you for encouraging me to freeze this moment in time, and for capturing the beauty of this journey for us. ❤️

Happy Mother’s Day to my mom. I’m beyond grateful for your help and guidance throughout this new chapter in our lives. Despite living in another country, you’ve made me feel loved, celebrated, supported and cared for from the beginning, and I’m so grateful you were here for my initiation into motherhood. Love you always ❤️

With my first Mother’s Day coming up, I’ve been reflecting a lot on this amazing, beautiful journey I’m on and the concept of time keeps coming up. The moment I found out I was pregnant, time changed. It was both crawling at a snail’s pace, especially during challenging times, while simultaneously moving at warp speed, most obviously in those quiet, special moments of reflection.

I’m currently sitting here, rocking my sleeping baby in his nursery, and my mind wandered to the future, like a movie reel of all the things to come, and I’m feeling an overwhelming sense of grief. It’s almost embarrassing to admit, while I’m still holding my precious little baby, with so much we have yet to experience, but I feel a deep sadness that this moment won’t last forever. My son is only going to be a baby for a brief moment, and then a child for a short time, followed by a teen and a young adult for few years, and then he’ll be grown. He’ll be an independent human, hopefully he’ll find a life partner, maybe have a family of his own, and he won’t be my baby anymore…and it’s heartbreaking.

Of course, there will be thousands of days in between that I will cherish, where we will have so many amazing experiences, and create so many beautiful memories, and I’m certain there will be days that feel like centuries, and we’ll overcome many challenges together…but in this moment, while I cuddle my sleeping newborn, no amount of time feels like enough.

What a wild ride this journey of motherhood is so far! I have a whole new deep appreciation for all of my fellow mothers, especially the ones who have helped shape the mother I hope to become. ❤️