I know you’re sitting there with your hand resting on your pregnant belly watching your first born play and your heart is bursting. You’re thinking this love is something you can’t contain. This love is impossible to bottle up and measure. It’s incredibly intense and it takes every ounce of your being. How could you multiply that love? How can you fathom loving another just as much? How can your heart hold much more when it’s already bursting through your chest?

Oh, mama, let me tell you what happens.

When you hold that second baby in your arms that all consuming love just rushes over you. You find yourself staring at every little feature on that precious babe of yours in disbelief that your first baby was ever that small. You’re overwhelmed once again wondering how it’s possible to love such a tiny person as much as you do that very moment.

But it doesn’t end there.

When you’re sitting there on the couch watching your first baby on the ground talking and playing with your second baby your heart explodes. Those times your eyes filled with tears when you saw your babies for the first time, those tears start bursting out. You can no longer contain them. This is an entirely new love. This love is even stronger than the first. This love is watching a relationship that only you could make happen. You gave your first born a best friend for life. You gave them what no one else could. This is love multiplied over and over. This is the love you created over flowing into the love that is created in the bond between the two children before your eyes. This is new. This is powerful. This is an all consuming love that just keeps growing.

You will love your first baby as your first baby. You will love your second baby as your second baby. Then you will see them together and you will love stronger and harder than you ever have before. It’s amazing how much love a mother’s heart can hold. It’s amazing how much it can grow with each passing day. It’s this that makes a mother so incredibly special. It’s this love that continuously has a mother living a life overflowing.

You’ll love mama. You’ll love like you never loved before. You’ll love a love that just keeps on growing.