Not keeping mum 🤫
When I was very pregnant everyone was determined to make sure I knew how terrible it would be to have a new baby. Forget swollen feet and heartburn, morning sicknesss that made me vomit, they all swore I didn’t know how bad it was going to be until I had a newborn around to ruin my life. As if it were a secret, they told me I would never truly sleep again, would age overnight and lose my identity, my body would sag, I would hate my partner, life would transform into drudgery and red wine, with everything covered in poop. The relentless low-grade negativity sent me running to the internet to search “best things about parenting a newborn.” The discouraging results warned me of Top Things You’ll do Wrong as a New Parent, How to Survive Having a Newborn, and Biggest Mistakes New Parents Make. Not a single one was positive, and I really needed some reassurance around then. So here I am, safely on the other side of the first twelve weeks of newborn parenting and I can proclaim tha...