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In today’s blog, we will discover how to adjust to a growing family!
This blog aims to help you see how to adjust!
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The one thing about adulting I don’t think I was prepared enough for was such a hot question that comes up around the age when you are “supposed” to get married, have a baby, and especially when you are alright doing the first two things
“When are you going to ___ ?”
But for the topic of a growing family let’s focus on the common when are you going to try for another baby? or in my case a girl because God decided that 2 boys were what I needed.
In my case, I learned very quickly that many are ready to ask you and even encourage you to have more without really understanding what that entails.
If you like me and my husband in that time of wanting another baby but not understanding what that would even look like for us, I wish someone would have asked us how are you planning to adjust to all the changes?
That’s super specific and probably the 2nd to the last thing on anyone’s mind because we all just want to hold, snuggle and pour the love of Jesus into another bundle of joy.
So I wanted to give you a few tips on things you can remember before you make your decision or maybe as you preparing to add your blessing into your family soon :
- Have God at the center of it all
- Trust in Him
- Plan to the best of your ability (physical, emotional, mentally)
- Have the support you can rely on
- Make routines
- Give yourself and your Husband grace
- Knowing when enough is enough for your family
Having these conversations is important because you know somewhat what you’re getting yourself into and most importantly you are seeking your creator about the creation you are planning to create!
Should we have more?
I knew without any hesitation after I had my first baby that I was going to be having another baby soon after.How?
Well, baby fever but also I had it so heavy on my heart and every time I prayed about it, I kept getting the same answer.
“Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the Lord our God.”
Psalms 20:7 NKJV
When you are making your decisions I want you to remember that you never make a decision that God didn’t already know you would make so why not talk to Him about what he may or may not have for you, right?
When we surrender our lives , marriages , and families to the Lord Or even if we try not to because we think we got it on our own God has already written our stories and knows the plans he has for us before the foundation of the world .
Changing your perspective on children and parenting
“Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, The fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one’s youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them; They shall not be ashamed, But shall speak with their enemies in the gate.”
Psalms 127:3-5 NKJV
As you adjust to a growing family a lot of things will come up as we talked about in children’s prayers. What was spoken over you will poke its head out in hopes to either make you or break you .
And maybe what was spoken isn’t the problem but your eyes have seen too much and you can’t. I see what you did and now you find yourself struggling to move past that trauma.
To be completely transparent I had a lot of trauma when it came to the topic of having a baby and raising them in peace simply because I saw my mother have such a hard time and in the heat of her frustration she vocalized her views on what was happening to her and because I lost her before becoming a mother myself I’ve been left to unpack a lot of things I wish I could ask her about but God has been so faithful to help me grow into the mother he needed me to be .
I had to realize that wasn’t my truth , those were her feelings from her past and her traumas that she didn’t know how to unpack .
Allowing God to come in and have his way in my life , my parenting and family was one of the best decisions that I ever made .
Releasing what I thought in exchange for His truth really set me free from my thoughts about growing my family !
And my prayer is that if you are struggling with the idea of growing your family because of something that happened to you, I want to encourage you that you can handle more than you think because you serve a Big God!
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