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Preparedformotherhood There’s nothing that can truly prepare you for motherhood.
No one tells you exactly what will happen or what you’ll need to do — not your mom, not your sister… no one.
I still remember my first day in the hospital. After they checked everything, they handed me my baby and told me to feed her. I did. And when she finished, I looked at my husband and said, “Okay what do we do now
I actually called the nurse and told her, “I don’t know what to do
She laughed and said, Just put her in her bed. That’s it
And that was it. Just like that… we were parents.
Then we came home. The first day at home with my baby and my husband — thank God my mom was there too. But even with everyone around me, I kept asking my self and my mom
Am I a good mom?Am I doing this right?Is this normal?She woke up every 30 minutes to an hour every single night. Everyone told me, “Don’t worry, after 40 days she’ll sleep through the night. That was not true.
Seventeen months later she still wakes up every hour or so. And no one prepared me for that either.
But somehow, day by day… night by night… I learned.
I figured it out.
I grew with her.
And great. Thank God 