Post-natal and Parental Amnesia

It's funny how quickly I forget what happened only a few weeks ago. Most of the time, it's easy to remember unpleasant times or emotions in my life, but there seems to be something special about parenthood that does the flashy-light-thing to the hard and/or painful parts of the past having to do with my child. For instance, I barely even recall that I was pretty nauseous until sometime well into the fourth month of pregnancy, that I was incredibly swollen the last couple months of pregnancy, that labor, birth and recovery were quite painful at times and very uncomfortable pretty much the whole time, that learning to breastfeed (for both Gavin and me) was a very difficult and emotionally draining thing, that Gavin was very fussy and cried a lot until I figured out that he's very sensitive to cow's milk protein and stopped eating all milk products (at about 6 or 8 weeks). Somehow it seems my brain isn't interested in keeping the memories of all the hard things. If something reminds me of them, I find myself saying "oh yeah, I had forgotten about that." But I am thankful for it. If I could remember all those things better I might have a harder time deciding to have more children.