Can’t I just love him?

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He already squirms away from kisses and hugs =(

I’ve been a mommy for just 11 months and 2 days so I don’t really know a lot about motherhood. When the TV show MOMents asked me to dispense advice to mommy viewers, I confessed I have no advice but that I only follow one rule: To respond with love always.

Meanwhile, I get a ton of tips on how to raise my son, most of them seems to be to hold him at arm’s length because love will spoil him. I’ve been told that breastfeeding makes the child clingy so I should stop. Letting the baby sleep with us in bed will ruin our marriage. When I cradle him in my arms and dance and sing him to sleep, I get warned that he’ll be a brat and will never learn to sleep on his own.

You know, I appreciate all the advice but I just can’t do it. I want to breastfeed him, to nurture him and comfort him. I want us all to cuddle in bed because Vince and I work all day and we only have Vito at night. I want to sing to him till I’m hoarse, dance with him till my hips hurt. If that’s what makes him happy. If that’s what makes him feel loved.

I don’t know if I’m wrong, I don’t know if I’ll regret all this one day. Maybe I will but I sure hope not. Because I only have a small window of time with Vito and one day too soon he’ll not want to be with mama and papa anymore. He’ll want to sleep in his own bed, lock the door. He’ll turn up the music loud to drown us out. He’ll want to be on his own, which is only right and what should be, and as his parent, I will help him be on his own.

But until that day comes, let me love my boy.

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