I remember after I had my first daughter I was stressing majorly, worried every single day about every single thing from how I was doing as a mom, to make sure I was breastfeeding and feeding her enough, to all the minimal problems that arise as a mom. To think now six years later, I have a whole toddler (can you imagine lil ole me, a mom to a full grown toddler chillayyy lol) I have done a pretty decent job in raising her and guess what I haven’t broken her and I even have another one and we are surviving just fine. One of the biggest struggles that pretty much all new mom’s face is being too hard on ourselves, we all have this sometimes very unrealistic idea of what motherhood should look like and when things don’t pan out that way we worry, and then that worry makes us doubt ourselves and our capabilities to be the best moms to our babies. Well I am here to tell you ease off yourself and give yourself a BREAK!!!
- Guess what that little baby is going to be just fine I can promise your that. Except if you are just pure evil and doing every wrong thing in the book (well that is a different conversation) but as long as you have good intentions, and you are making smart decisions for your child then that’s all that matters. We really can’t control it all and you most certainly can’t predict what will come up, but you can prepare as best as you can and then just be ready to learn along the way.
- You are human, you are bound to make mistakes, you won’t do it all right but that is fine and actually I think motherhood was meant for us to make mistakes. If the people before us didn’t make mistakes, how would we know what is considered right and wrong today.
- All the little freak outs and little things you think are big deals, won’t matter. There are so many things I freaked out about with Simi, I was so worried I was being a horrible mom cause I had to go back to work FT and take her to daycare in the middle of winter in Colorado. But guess what she is 6 years old now, doesn’t remember any of that and honestly the fun family memories far out weigh all the minimal things I ever worried about.
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