“Someday you too shall realize the pains of being a mother” said every mother
to their daughter only a little too late, when the ‘someday’ is now.
While the miracle of birth and being a mom for the first time has all its
excitements and merrymaking, the morning sickness and food cravings
included, but the moment of truth, having your newborn in your arms and
suckling is an emotion quite priceless. Ye right!
Here are ten things most new moms wish their mothers had warned them
about, before conceiving! Read on and we bet you would sigh and say “Yes,
that’s so my life”!
1. Forget the ‘me time’
Unless of course you are Gotti from Growing Up Gotti, with a billion dollar
mansion and plenty of nannies around to care for the kids, your life and its
rules makes no sense to the toddler that burps and belches away in its crib!
Buy cozy furnishings by going on Kohls.com, which would keep your angel
snoozing away comfortably. To boost your saving benefits, you can avail
Kohls
coupon or promo code and flaunt your smarty mommy hats in style! And to top
it all, your much needed ‘me time’ guaranteed too. Doubly whammy!
2. Sleep is luxury
Not a necessity but luxury. Yes, you have read that right and we aren’t scaring
you to bits, but just prepping you up for the real deal when hubby leaves for
work and the baby watches every move you make. Try catching up on a
power nap post lunch, and we would take a bow. Babies have their own
schedules to adhere to, each to their own in most cases. When they need
mommy, they NEED MOMMY, period! Sleep? What is that! Mommy tip
try using baby sleep music to aotthe your litte one to bed faster!
3. Gal pals are a thing of the past
You don’t have time for them, they don’t have time for you, it’s that simple. Not
that they are ignoring you, but your BFF’s who threw you a baby shower party
a few months back, now know how important it is for you as a new mom to
manage your home and your baby too. They may drop by for a moment to
visit mommy and baby, but it is exactly at that time when the baby smiles and
stays quiet. The moment they leave, the mood swings are back with the
baby’s tantrums once again. Try explaining this to the friend, and she’d say
“You are kidding me”!
4. Hungry mouth to be fed
Not round the clock, thankfully, but babies need their nutrition on a timely
basis. Try keeping up with the schedule, and worse still, try having a baby
gulp it all down without a spill. You’d know what we new moms are talking
about!
5. A change almost every two hours
With their verbal senses not yet developed, how would a baby say he needs
to take a leak? By wetting their clothes, diapers and the crib of course,
catching you unaware and without a warning in most cases! Should you be in
the shower for a five minute scrub, your baby would yell out an alarm. It is now
time for the cleanup act!
6. As they grow
Now that they have begun talking and walking, exploring and being the Lara
Crofts and Indiana Jones around the house, mommies have to be extra alert
and sometimes round the clock supervising the little ‘angels’ deeds. You
wouldn’t want to wake up for evening tea to walls in the room full of frescoes
from stray crayons or Lassie your pooch all dolled up with your makeup, right?
7. The innumerable questions
“Why is the sun round and yellow”, “Why is the moon so white and bright”,
“Where does daddy go every morning”, “Why does the dog not wear pants”
and the many more innocent yet a bagful of questions from our pocketful of
sunshine try answering them all and without having a migraine at the end of
it.
8. Growing kids shorter clothes
You just bought those cute onesies and rompers for her, and she just doesn’t
fit in them. Kids grow and they grow pretty fast. What did fit her today and
made her look cute, wouldn’t do so when Fall arrives. She’s either put on
weight or lost some, gained a few inches maybe or her feet have grown.
9. Fights, fights and more fights
If not with their siblings, its with the neighbors children or maybe your pets.
As kids grow and turn more than just a year old, they start marking their
territories in their own ways. From nasty kiddy brawls (serious for them) to
hand blows and fights, get ready for the doorbell to ring with a double in anger
mommy from next door wanting to have a word with you!
10. What happened to my hair and face?
We aren’t talking about signs of stress, but if you do leave your makeup and
vanity box unattended and catch forty winks; get prepared for the burlesque
saga to manifest later on. Your face is their canvas, period.
Ask moms who have come out victorious and they would tell you a different
tale altogether. From changing nappies at wee hours of the morning to waking
up a billion times to the shrill cries of the little one in their cribs, life can be a
rollercoaster ride if the husband (partner in crime) doesn’t help! Sigh, it’s a
moms life!
I love my babies more than anything but life as you know it before motherhood is no more. A whole new life with a stronger bond than you have ever known begins the love for a child is so strong!
