If you were to watch adverts for baby products and believe that everything featured in them was real, you would be easily forgiven for feeling bad when motherhood didn’t exactly go according to plan.
Motherhood is not all sunshine and rainbows, and a lot of women struggle with the huge changes that a baby brings to their lives, their bodies and their emotions.
One mother has summed this up perfectly in an incredibly honest post about her own experience, which she has shared with the Love What Matters Facebook page this weekend.
Describing how her life ‘changed forever’ when she welcomed daughter Eliana into the world, she admitted that her response to being handed over her child was “equal parts love and terror”.
"I remember exactly the moment my life changed forever, the moment I became a mom. When I laid eyes on my Eliana for...
Posted by Love What Matters on Saturday, April 9, 2016
“Nothing prepared me for the downs. The exhaustion, the sleep deprivation. The constant struggle of working full-time outside of the home. The teething, the fevers, the doctors’ visits and co-pays. The guilt, doubt, fear, tears, frustration, confusion and everything else in between, and for me and my journey, the anxiety and depression that I still walk with. The long days and nights with a colicky baby who hated sleep and a sore mama who couldn't walk,” she wrote.
We’re sure that many of you can relate to this mother’s struggles and her admission that, after years of trying for a baby, she was terrified of facing into “the fight to love motherhood”.
Thankfully, however, she got through it, and now she wants to share her experience with other women, so that they never have to feel bad or alone.
She added: “To all the other mamas out there, I celebrate your journey today too, whatever it may be. The good, the bad, and the ugly. You are amazing, you are more than enough, you are MAMA, and even on your messy days your baby is loving you through it and whispering to your heart whether you realise it or not. Just listen.”
