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You have your life all set up for yourself. You have prepared yourself for the best. Now you are ready you have finished high school and you have found a not so great job, but something you can find yourself in for awhile just so you can make it through college. You want to travel the world, possibly go into modeling, or have an acting career, or a singing career.

Then unexpectedly you have a little one that is on the way. Then you are like wait a minute this was not in my plans until later on down the line. Then all your dreams and everything that you wanted to do first in life before even having a baby. You were at least hoping to find that one perfect man to maybe share this brand new life with. Instead the man that you were with left you alone with his baby to care for.

Then all your priorities come to a hault. Before you were your main priority. If you needed clothes or shoes, then you could just go to the store and buy them. If you were hungry you could feed yourself.

Now that you have a child things change, you need clothes but so does your child because he outgrew the ones from two months ago. Who gets first dibs on the shopping for new clothes. That would be your baby. You both are hungry, but there is only one sandwhich in the fridge who gets dibs, your baby.

This is a little someone that cannot be placed as a second priority. Although you want to so badly be first and get the first dibs. The well being of your baby is the first priority. Your friends want to go for a girls night out and you want to find a baby sitter, but then your little baby gets sick. Your baby sitter complains saying that she can't she's got school work due for the next day and none of your family wants to help out with your sick baby. So although you have not had a night out in months, you can't go. Then your friends complain because you never go out with them any more.

Things change when you have a baby your life changes with a complete one eighty. Your whole life and your personal life and everything gets put on hold and to a hault. Something that you have not planned on doing or something planned on happening at such short time in yor life. Things become unplanned. Things happen unplanned.

Your priorities begin to change to your child needs and what is going on in their life. How are they doing, what is their health like, do they have the appropriate clothes to wear and do they fit. Have they eaten at all today.

Allthough your prioriies have change don't forget about taking care of yourself. Don't get so caught up so much on your child that you forget about you. Try to get in me time when your child is out on a play date or napping. If you're tired take a nap etc.

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