'People always ask how the baby is doing, but they rarely ask how you are doing.'
“It Can Be Quite Unnerving": New Parents Are Sharing The Things They Wish They'd Been More Prepared ForWe all know that becoming a parent doesn't come with one straightforward manual, and there are a whole lot of experiences no one can prepare you for. I recently"Breastfeeding is hard! It feels like it should be such a natural process, where mom produces milk and baby is born knowing how to latch and feed. But no, just no.
"I was truly surprised by so much, like how lonely, exhausting, and difficult postpartum is. It's one thing to prepare yourself for it and another to actually experience it. No matter how much help you have, you're going to be sleep-deprived. Your hormones are raging, and you are bleeding for roughly six weeks. There is a reason why maternity leave is 12 weeks, because that's how long it takes for your body tohealing, even though full recovery takes much longer.
"I didn't know that baby boys frequently pee as soon as you remove their diaper! I think it’s a reflex to the cold air when you take the diaper off or something? One tip is to put a washcloth or something as a little cover so it doesn’t accidentally hit you in the face." "That breastfeeding wouldn't be an option for me. I thought my son would just know how to latch and that my instincts would magically kick in to help him. Neither happened, and I ended up becoming an exclusive pumper, which was grueling and not at all what I wanted my first months of motherhood to be. I have overwhelming guilt and shame that I couldn't feed my son naturally.
"It was an adjustment for my husband, especially, to realize we can't just leave the house anymore. We have to pack all the stuff the baby needs, make sure she is fed/rested, and time our departure right for all of us to go somewhere as a family. My husband has definitely adjusted, but for the first month or two, he was thrown off by the amount of prep it took just to go out."
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