Mama Bear on the loose - Don't shoot!!!!!

It is an interesting thing that happens when you give birth to your first child. You think you are so prepared for having a new baby. You have the nursery all set up, clothes you wonder if your child will ever fit into, you have the name picked out and know if you will nurse or bottle feed even know who will change most of the diapers. But the one thing I don't think you are prepared for is the intensity of love and protectiveness you feel the instant they set that screaming precious child on your chest. The thing that catches you so unaware is that the feeling just gets stronger and stronger every day. And then you have another child and you secretly wonder while you are pregnant if you can possibly love another baby as much as you love the first one. And then once again you have that precious newborn set on your chest after you have labored to get them out and your question is instantly answered because your heart has enlarged that very moment and you have forgotten that you ever just loved one child. Then you have the 3rd and then the 4th and each time your heart grows more and more. It is such an amazing feeling and the best thing in the world. You as a Mom the most wonderful name you have ever been called are called to duty. You get to love them, watch over them, wipe them over and over, feed them, stay up w/them when they are sick, worry over them, kiss and hug them as much as you want. The list goes on and on. But the one thing that you are so unaware is ever going to happen is your Mama Bear instinct comes out. You have seen it in your own mother and silently been so proud that she loved you enough to go to the lengths that she did but never knew what it felt like to go thru it yourself. For some of us it happens early like when your child is struggling for life in a hospital and the staff is telling you things and you know they aren't right and you fight for your child and then they live. It proves that as mothers that we know what our children need. And then s/times it happens later when a child or adult it mean to your child. You are shocked to find that strong feeling coming out again. But what makes no sense to me is when people don't get your Mama Bear instinct. When you are doing what is your job as a Mama Bear to do and they try to deny it. What is hard is that no matter what you need to do what is best for your child and for that instinct I am thankful. I just pray that I can use my Mama Bear instinct for what God intended it for and not for harm. But when questioned I will stand tall and say I am proud Mama Bear and I love my cubs!