The Honest Mum

What did you expect motherhood would be like when you were pregnant? Did you think it was going to be hard? Easy? Are you a go with the flow kind of gal?  I was expecting sunshine and rainbows, and for the most part it is. Until I was covered in spit up 24/7,  not showered for 5 days and I had forgotten how to use a hair brush. Those first few weeks with my son we’re crazy. I did lose my shit at 3am more than once trying to get him to latch, which I now know what cluster feeding. Which is totally normal. You see I thought I was prepared, I asked so many different questions to so many different people and I read numerous breastfeeding books but not one mentioned the fucking cluster feeds. I nearly said fuck it let’s just do formula but I knew I’d regret it the next day. I have nothing again formula before those keyboard mums come out screaming I’m mum shaming. *biggest eye roll I can muster*. I don’t agree with fed is best, I agree with informed is best. We should know what ...

Well ladies and gentlemen, everyone needs to talk about afterbirth more! WAY more. I was so unprepared on what to expect about the afterbirth and that's kind of difficult when you're a control freak. (I'm working on not being so bad). Blood, guts, weird flubber like placenta, and mini contractions. All the things no fucker told me about. All I was told was I could chose to have the injection to get it out quicker, yes please I said, sign me up get that shit out of me faster than I can say placenta. Honestly the feeling of 'giving birth' to my placenta made me want to vomit. Painful from my 2nd degree tear and graze I had from pushing my chunky baby out. I was in pure heaven skin to skin with my little boy snuggling him, then the midwife is like right love time to get this placenta out. Pushing on my belly which was squishy already, uncomfortable as I was still having mini contractions. I didn't need the injection which I'm glad, less drugs in me th...