TL;DR: Motherhood is hard as shit.
I feel like moms so often don’t wanna talk about this part of having a baby cause we don’t want people to think we don’t love our baby or think that we’re a bad mom. But I STRUGGLED after my daughter was born, and I struggled silently for all those reasons I listed above, despite KNOWING I had people I could turn to. I was embarrassed cause I felt like I didn’t have any reason to be struggling. Everybody was telling me how great of a mom I was, and how easily I adapted to motherhood and I legit felt like I was drowning every damn day. I had PPA, PPD, PP damn everything LOL. I was using a schedule and being super rigid about when she slept, when she ate, etc to make me feel like I was in control of something. And none of it was working, I was just going through the motions.
Motherhood is life changing in so many ways even before the baby arrives. Your body changes, your brain changes, your sense of self changes, your whole identity changes— sudden...
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