My Personal Narritive

My Personal Narritive

Jessica Carter English 1301 February 12, 2009 Personal NarrativePersonal Narrative
On November 20th, 2005 my world started to change in ways I didn’t think possible. That was the day I found out I was going to have my first child. Eight months later, on June 19th, my son was born. He was a beautiful, bald, new-born blue-eyed baby, weighing 7pounds, 4.8 ounces and 21 inches long. I had been continuously worried during my pregnancy about how I would successfully raise a child without a stable father and provide all the things, both physical and emotional that a child needs. I was already basically a single mom at this point; my bipolar husband had all but abandoned us even though he was physically there. But in that first instant that I saw my son I momentarily forgot all my fears. This was the beginning of my journey through parenting and real life. One that would take me through a couple of really hard times, coming out on top more mature and with a new determination to advance further in life. It gave me a strength I never knew I had. But this was a change I was unaware of at first, similar to Mike Rose’s story “Potato Chips and Stars”.
I took him home a few days later, nervous and exited. I got to spend the next weeks just learning about my son. I was going to have to think about how to do all the basics of parenting, like childproofing things you never thought you would have to, or what to do about a head bump. But before you knew it we had a pretty good routine going. He was sleeping most of the way through the night, eating more and growing like no-bodies business. I can still see him lying on the bed looking at me, or watching him try to roll over after just a few weeks. That was my favorite time, just he and I. Over the next year I watched him learn to roll, crawl, and right before he was one, he took his first steps without the help of the couch or the kitchen counters. I watched him turn from new born to infant, from infant to toddler. His eyes...

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