Becoming a Mother
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The day you give birth is a day you will remember for the rest of your life. The moment you meet your baby for the first time goes way beyond any description I could ever provide here. I get excited when I meet first time mums-to-be as I know how much of a treat they’re in for and I won’t lie I also get slightly jealous of what they’re about to experience for the first time because there really are no words.
If I had to use two words to describe becoming a mum and the last four months of my life it would definitely be - emotional roller coaster (I blame the hormones and yes it's technically three words!). I can honestly say that nothing could have prepared me for the love and happiness I feel every time I look at my baby and yet I can also say that nothing could have prepared me for the sadness I felt sometimes for absolutely no reason at all and yet I’ve been told that this is perfectly normal (what is
normal anyway?!)
So, it was a day, someday in the last four months(honestly I haven’t a clue) but it was one of those days, you know the days where you do not get dressed and I had very little sleep ha ha what new mum gets lots of sleep? anyway you know what I mean it was one of those days in between the really happy days and I was sitting on my couch scrolling through Facebook in the spare 5 minutes that I had and I came across an article from a new mum about the reality of being at home with a new-born. It was like I wrote the article myself, it was an honest detailed account of a day at home with a new-born and it was literally my life that day.
Reading that article that day at that moment in time made me realise that I was not alone and I was not the only new mother feeling the way I felt having the day I was having and that was enough to put me at ease.
Becoming a mother has been the most amazing thing that has happened to me and has brought so much love and happiness into my life but I will be the first to admit that there are tough days especially in the first few weeks. It doesn’t help when you're a hormonal, sleep deprived woman who would give her right arm for an extra five minutes in bed... and then you look at that precious bundle of joy that you helped create and realise that you would do absolutely anything in the world for them even if it meant having very
little or no sleep at all.
This is what makes you a mum/dad/parent and it is the most special feeling of all.
If I had to use two words to describe becoming a mum and the last four months of my life it would definitely be - emotional roller coaster (I blame the hormones and yes it's technically three words!). I can honestly say that nothing could have prepared me for the love and happiness I feel every time I look at my baby and yet I can also say that nothing could have prepared me for the sadness I felt sometimes for absolutely no reason at all and yet I’ve been told that this is perfectly normal (what is
normal anyway?!)
So, it was a day, someday in the last four months(honestly I haven’t a clue) but it was one of those days, you know the days where you do not get dressed and I had very little sleep ha ha what new mum gets lots of sleep? anyway you know what I mean it was one of those days in between the really happy days and I was sitting on my couch scrolling through Facebook in the spare 5 minutes that I had and I came across an article from a new mum about the reality of being at home with a new-born. It was like I wrote the article myself, it was an honest detailed account of a day at home with a new-born and it was literally my life that day.
Reading that article that day at that moment in time made me realise that I was not alone and I was not the only new mother feeling the way I felt having the day I was having and that was enough to put me at ease.
Becoming a mother has been the most amazing thing that has happened to me and has brought so much love and happiness into my life but I will be the first to admit that there are tough days especially in the first few weeks. It doesn’t help when you're a hormonal, sleep deprived woman who would give her right arm for an extra five minutes in bed... and then you look at that precious bundle of joy that you helped create and realise that you would do absolutely anything in the world for them even if it meant having very
little or no sleep at all.
This is what makes you a mum/dad/parent and it is the most special feeling of all.
