They always say it… I don’t know who “they” are but you hear it. You lose yourself in motherhood. It’s true. It happened. But on the other hand, you hear them say, “don’t lose yourself in mother hood” or “Find time for you.” That’s not possible. The early mornings, the late nights and all the chaos in the middle. You find yourself counting the hours till bed time and dreading the break of dawn. You stay up late just to find time to do something of your choice, without getting up ever 2 minutes to appease one of the little humans. You’ve become the snack bitch. The maid. The butler.…
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New Mom Must Have Apps
New mom veteran or not these are some MUST HAVE apps that will help guide you through the journey. If this is your first, seconded or fifth baby the journey will be different…it’ll be new territory that you’ll have to find your way through… and these are some of the apps I absolutely LOVE! They have helped calm my worries and give me hope, guide me through the hard times and remind me when I forget. So here are my all-time favourite New Mom Must Have Apps 1.What to Expect What to expect is a GREAT App. It’s modelled after the very popular book “What to expect when your expecting”…
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Postpartum Recovery
The Truth About Postpartum Recovery How to survive your postpartum recovery. There’s a lot of general knowledge about postpartum recovery BUT there’s also A LOT that “They” don’t tell you. I had a basic idea of what postpartum was going to be like. There would be a constant “period” for weeks and going to the bathroom would probably hurt you know the common knowledge. But oh boy was I in for a shock! There’s so much other stuff that they don’t tell you! So let ME tell you the postpartum recovery truth! 1. The Bathroom. The bathroom will become a scary place where you won’t want to go. You’ll…
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10 Things That Change When Becoming a Mom.
Everything Changed When I Became a Mom. Once I became a mom the obvious changed, you were now caring for a life that was above your own. What I didn’t think would happen was my outlook on pretty much the whole world. Watching movies I used to love changed. Commercials became blubber fest and the way I now deal with situations is completely different. I didn’t know that my whole self would change in a second. My husband and I were talking the other day about how our lives have drastically changed since the birth of our son. It got me thinking… How much has really changed? What changed? Is it…
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Bonding with baby
Bonding with Baby. My Story about bonding with my son. I didn’t think it would be hard… I didn’t think I would have to THINK about it… I thought when you have a baby that you automatically have a bond with them and I guess you do in a way but not the way I was expecting. My husband and I found out we were expecting while we were planning our wedding, not the most conventional way but we rolled with it. We were planning on having kids quickly anyway. So we decided to move the wedding up, like a year and a half up. The wedding was planned in…
