There are moments as a parent when you wonder why in the world you would ever have taken this on. It seems too much, both from a risking-your-heart standpoint, and from an oh-my-god-I-had-no-idea-how-exhausting-this-would-be standpoint.
But then there are those moments when you could almost drown in the love for your child. Or, as my husband and I refer to it, that moment when you wish you could unhinge your jaw and swallow your child whole.