These influencers are just pissing me off now with their unrealistic portrayal of the early days of motherhood… I had a really shit time as a first time mother, third degree tears, a baby that never slept and screamed 24/7 for the first year, colic, reflux, absolute torture! That baby is now 3 years old and it’s only now that I’m starting to feel like myself again… I know my experience was probably on the extreme end of difficult but these women are doing a total disservice to their following by portraying everything as “perfect, wonderful, a dream, so in love, my life finally makes sense” etc. etc.
Sometimes being a new mother is a fucking shitshow and you know what, thats’s ok!! It doesn’t mean I love my child any less than someone who had an easy time of it. I felt totally robbed of the lovely newborn stage everyone talks about, there was no love at first sight instant bond, it was hell! I have an amazing bond with my child now but that experience will never be repeated and I’m firmly one and done because I can’t see myself going through that ever again…
I already unfollowed Joanne Larby and Terrie McEvoy because they made me feel shit about myself when compared with their “wonderful” experiences and now I’ll be hitting unfollow on this eejit too… I never comment on these threads but she has seriously triggered me in the last few days!!
Sometimes being a new mother is a fucking shitshow and you know what, thats’s ok!! It doesn’t mean I love my child any less than someone who had an easy time of it. I felt totally robbed of the lovely newborn stage everyone talks about, there was no love at first sight instant bond, it was hell! I have an amazing bond with my child now but that experience will never be repeated and I’m firmly one and done because I can’t see myself going through that ever again…
I already unfollowed Joanne Larby and Terrie McEvoy because they made me feel shit about myself when compared with their “wonderful” experiences and now I’ll be hitting unfollow on this eejit too… I never comment on these threads but she has seriously triggered me in the last few days!!