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The thrill-ride of being a mother for the first time can be both exciting and nerve-wracking. For new mother Necia Snow, a junior from Cedar City, Utah, nothing has been the same since the birth of her first child last month.
“I don’t sleep anymore,” she said. “Ever.”
On Jan. 30, at 9:33 a.m., Snow gave birth to Xion Haven Snow. Xion was 20.5 inches, weighed 6 pounds and 11 ounces, bald, and cute as a button, had beady little eyes and a life-altering presence.
Snow hadn’t always seen things turning out the way they did.. School meant everything to her, and her husband, Claine, a junior from Idaho Falls, ranked up there too. She had her priorities set and she couldn’t have seen them changing anytime in the near future. The idea of loving someone she had never met seemed awkward and distant as well, she said.
When it finally happened, Snow accepted what the Lord had in mind for her.
“There’s never a perfect time to have kids,” she said. “For some reason God just blesses us [with them], and from my past experience I know that everything will work out.”
So she was pregnant, and the process began. Snow began water aerobics to stay in shape and help the pregnancy to go by faster. She soon became enthusiastic about the idea of having a child.
“As soon as you feel him kick, and you know something is alive inside of you … it’s just wow!” she said.
Priorities changed for both of them.
“I was always worried about a job or school, whereas now I worry more about spending time at home,” Claine said. “We can’t go anywhere without him.”
Despite the fact that she spends most of her time at home now, Snow’s life has no shortage of stressful things to do. She took on an internship at home, she has kept attending water aerobics classes, and of course there’s the baby.
“It kinda doesn’t matter when it’s nighttime or daytime … you sleep in intervals now,” Snow said.
Snow hadn’t entirely forgotten the pain of the birth experience a month later.
“There’s some women out there who talk about how beautiful it is, natural child birth, and I was like, ‘yeah!’ But I’m a wimp,” she said. “I recommend that all women go for an epidural.”
The Snow’s apartment found a new celebrity, whose popularity was steadily rising. “Everybody wants to hold him, … but I’m like ‘Claine, don’t let anybody hold him except me!’” she said. “If he cries longer than 20 seconds I have to pick him up.”
As proud parents the Snows look forward with curiosity to see what the future will bring for their son.
“Every time he wakes up, he wakes up with more personality,” Snow said. “If he’s like his dad, he’ll be a good kid.”
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