Life As A New Mommy
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Star
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If I had thought that being a mommy to a new baby was going to be easy, then I was terribly wrong. I think that I had been a little overconfident in the beginning because I had all the other kids around, but they were easy when it ca to the baby.
Brayden, being a newborn, needed to sleep a lot, but he also needed to be fed every two hours or so. I was also breastfeeding him, which ant that I was the one feeding him most of the ti. I was being taught how to pump my milk after the first few days as well.
The benefit to pumping my milk for Brayden was that Artem, Mom, Chay, Gabby, Aunt Criztie, Dad, Aries, and whoever else was helping could feed the baby. There was a lot of help for us though, and that was a good thing as well. Everyone wanted to feed and hold him and help with stuff. It was honestly a little overwhelming with how much people were trying to help out.
I didn't mind, though. I wanted this type of inclusive family life. I was enjoying having everyone here with and Brayden. I was happy that he was going to know so many mbers of his family.
Actually, what I was most happy about was that my baby was never going to know the hate and abuse that and the boys knew growing up. My son, and the other children Artem and I will have together in the future, would never have to know the type of life that and the boys went through. I never wanted anyone to suffer through that type of life.
Right now though, we were all just trying to adjust to the new life that we were living. The kids were doing their best through it too.
"Mommy, can I hold Brayden now?" Dalton asked the minute he got ho from school just like he had done every day for the last month.
"I need to go get a snack for all of you now so that would be very helpful." This had beco a routine for us.
"I will help you with that, Mommy." Cohen took my hand.
" too." Benton took my other hand.
"You shouldn't have to do that, Mom. We can do it." Flint tried to have sit back down.
"We will do it together." I smiled at him. "I will appreciate the help."
I was happy when the kids ca ho from school. They all told how their day went while having a snack. And I was really glad that they had this opportunity. I never got to go to regular school so I didn't know what it was like. Because of that, I quite enjoyed the stories that they told about different gas they played and the different things they were learning. I also liked that they had Reed and Bailey with them everyday. I liked that they all left and ca back together. That was helping everyone with the transition and adjustnt to their new lives.
I had seen them all grow so much over the last several months. It was making sad. Even Brayden had grown a lot over the last month since he was born. He was getting bigger, and he slept a little less. I had a feeling that, before I knew it, we would be running after him when he crawled or walked away from us. That made truly sad.
A Growing Family
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Artem
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Over the last few weeks, I couldn't help but notice how much life was changing for everyone. All the boys were gushing over the baby when they got ho from school. Mom, Dad, Vivian, and Aaron were always hanging out wherever the baby was. Aunt Criztie spent half her ti with all the kids, Brayden included, and the other half listening to ani in the background while she was cooking in the kitchen with Kieran. She particularly liked to watch, or listen, to One Piece. Both she and Kieran enjoyed cooking together quite a bit and got along really well.
I watched as over the last month Vivian looked more and more pregnant since she was due in just about two months or so. And Chay was starting to show now that she was a third of the way through her pregnancy as well.
Not to ntion that about a week after Brayden was born, Kent told that he had proposed to Ella and she said yes. Three days after that he told that Ella was pregnant. Within two more weeks, Reed, Toby, Morgan, and Doc all announced the sa thing. This ant that there were going to be a lot of little ones soon. We were all one big family, and it was growing a lot bigger.
That was all fine with . I was happy that we had quite the large family now. It was perfect in my eyes. I could do with having even more friends and family around. There were more than enough people in the house that we could handle it, and there was even more room left.
Every night, when Star went to take her shower, I would just sit in our room and watch Brayden as he slept in my arms. I had enjoyed every mont that I spent with the boys, that wasn't an issue, but I had never gotten the chance to be around babies like this.
I was a natural at it, apparently. Mom joked with constantly about how I had apparently pissed on my dad at least a dozen tis before he had learned how to change a diaper properly. I wasn't having an issue though. I seed to know just what to do when I first tried to change Brayden's diaper.
"Artem, I truly think you were born to be a daddy." Mom smiled at while she watched with my son. "You have been so good with all of the children. It doesn't matter what their ages are, you're doing it all so perfectly."
"I don't know, it just all seems like common sense to ." I shrugged my shoulders at her words. "I'm not trying to do anything other than that."
"Maybe it's because you were raised with so much love." Star would say when she heard Mom complint . That was when she would kiss my cheek and smile at Mom. "It's all thanks to you."
"Oh, Star, you give too much credit." Mom was always humble and shy like that. Still, I liked that Mom was happy when she got that complint.
Getting Used To A Baby In The House
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Chay
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I couldn't believe how much our life was changing. A year ago, Artem had co to and told that he wanted to help him here at the pack house. I had graduated high school a year early so that I could take ti off and do what I wanted to and grow as a person. I most definitely hadn't expected that Artem would tell that he wanted to take over the wolf pack and free the abused kids.
I knew he wanted to do that, but I didn't think it was going to happen right then. Honestly, he probably would have done it sooner, but Dad wanted him to prove that he had what it took to run the company before he left for xico with Mom.
He did it though. He proved that he was more than capable of running the company so Dad approved of him taking over the pack. We all knew what it ant for him to take the pack. He would have to take it by force and that ant killing the Alpha. There was no love lost there, none of us liked the Alpha. Still, it was a major step.
In fact, it was a step that I thought was going to suck all the happiness and joy out of Artem. That didn't happen, though. He stayed the sa person he was before, even though he had killed a man. He lived like he used to and took care of everyone because that was just who he was as a person.
I didn't think that over the course of the one year Artem would adopt thirteen boys and marry his mate. Nor did I think that his mate would have a baby so soon. In such a short ti, we went from murdering the forr Alpha to raising so many children.
And to top it all off, I am mated and pregnant now as well. And I am getting married in just a few weeks. Bailey wanted to have our wedding on Valentine's day. That actually gave us more ti to plan than the ti we had for Star and Artem's, but the venue was the sa. And with Aaron there offering his help and Vivian to make dresses, we didn't have that much to worry about.
Honestly, I think the thing that was the hardest to adjust to over the last year was the baby in the house. That was the newest and biggest change. Most of us didn't know how to take care of a baby so, and honestly, I was glad that we had our parents here to help Star and Artem.
Not to ntion that I was going to be learning as much as I could. I will be having a baby in just four months now as well, so I needed to know all of these things. And to think that my baby and Star's baby would only be five months apart in age. And then Brayden's aunt or uncle would be in the middle of them. It was a unique family dynamic, but it would work for us just fine.
"Chay?" Bailey called out to when I was writing in my journal.
"What's up?" I smiled at him and accepted the kiss on the cheek he was giving .
"What are you doing?"
"Just making notes." I showed him the journal. "I want to rember all of the things that I have learned from Mom, Aunt Criztie, and Vivian. I want to make sure that I know how to take care of my baby, our baby, properly."
"You're going to be a wonderful mother. I know this. Plus, it helps that you have all this ti to get used to a baby being in the house." He wrapped his arms around then and pulled back to lay against him.. I loved when he cuddled like this, I loved being wrapped in his arms and feeling the warmth of his whole body.
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