Mom Guilt, It never goes away!

I thought I would take a minute away from the photography posts to talk about Mom guilt and why it will never go away. We are currently a couple weeks away from welcoming our 3rd and final baby into the family. I am so excited about the addition to our family but I can not help but already feel bad for the little guy or girl (we like surprises).

By this point in the pregnancy. My first baby already had a nursery full of clothing, an email address and a weekly baby board (picture of me with update of baby size the changes that were happening that week for me and the baby and anything fun we did). When I found out I was pregnant with my second my Dad, being the second child in his family, had said I should strive to make things equal for my kids. So for my second I did the baby boards, the email (although I wrote to it less often) and added to the nursery so that they wouldn’t have all hand me downs. Although I still have yet to complete her baby books past 6 months. Something I am vowing to do before the arrival of the next baby.

This child is getting none of it. Life has changed a bit over the last 5.5 years. I am running my own business, taking care of two littles and am now a stay at home working mom. As I write this I am in the middle of making breakfast and making sure that my daughters baby stays sleeping for her. I do feel bad that my third child will not have documentation of every week of my pregnancy but I know that it will not be any less loved than my last two.

Something that I have come to the conclusion of very recently is that I have to cut myself some slack where I can. I can not be everything to everyone and I will not get all of my projects done so I need to figure out what is the most important to me and make that happen. Right now that means that I need to carve out some time on my yoga matt every day, make sure that my kids are loved and cared for, run my business and make sure that my husband feels like he is important to me.

Because in the end this baby is loved. I may not have time to do special projects for it but I love it with all my heart and will love it the same as my other two until I take my last breath.

With that said, however, I just made a list of things to do before baby on my phone that I will prioritize and not stress about. Well not that much.

Here is the only baby board I have completed for this baby. What do you think boy or girl?