When I became a mother at 19, I was fortunate to have my mother to help me learn how to became one. Without her support I don’t know how I would have survived those first months.
No one ever tells an expectant mother how demanding motherhood will be. Maybe women deliberately don’t remember labor or those first months of life with infants. Because if we did, no one would ever get pregnant.
All expectant mothers should receive a copy of Anne Lamott’s Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year. It is a honest, hysterical look at dealing with an infant. It has been more than 10 years since I've read it but I am smiling remembering how she thought of putting her infant son outside in the winter so she could get some sleep.
But, somehow, we and our infants not only survive those months of exhaustion and insanity but forge a bond that cannot be broken.
I Don't Feel Older
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