We don’t know a single mother out there who hasn’t been knocked for a loop at one time or another by motherhood. No matter how many books you’ve read, or how knowledgeable and forthright your doctor may be, or what a good example your own mother set for you, motherhood is full of surprises. Some make us laugh, others make us cry, and some drive us to the brink of insanity.
While the daily grind of motherhood may often make us feel as if we’re losing our minds, it’s our girlfriends who keep us sane. We live by the advice of our doctors, but we survive with the advice of our friends.
This week, we’re collaborating with Discovery Health to introduce their new docu-drama “Deliver Me” which follows three women - best friends, working mothers and physicians - as they balance delivering babies together in their OB/GYN practice with their lives outside the delivery room.
We want to hear your truth: What is it about pregnancy, parenting, and motherhood in general that only a girlfriend will tell you? Tell us what you wished you knew before becoming a mom.
Here’s how to participate:
Write a post on the truth about motherhood on your blog anytime this weekend - Friday, March 28 to Sunday, March 30 and include links to: http://discoveryhealth.clinicahealth.com/comments.pl?sid=08/03/25/1130242 and http://blog.parentbloggers.com.
Then send your blog post link to parentbloggers@gmail.com and we’ll round them up right here - all weekend long!
What can you win?
A Discovery Health black diaper bag filled with exclusive Discovery Health premium goodies, including “feed me”/”change me”/”soothe me” inserts, a food journal, babysitting chart, tee shirt, and much more!
So join in and tell us your truth and read about the truths that others have shared below. Then send a link to this page to all of your friends who haven’t yet had kids - and don’t forget to tune in to “Deliver Me” on Tuesday at 10pm on Discovery Health!
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1979 Called: It Wants Its Parenting Style Back
Borderline: The Truth About Motherhood
Constantly Doubting Myself: The Truth in My Motherhood
Give Me a Parenting Manual, and I’ll Throw It Away
Had You Said Something, I Still Wouldn’t Have Believed It
How Can You Be Lonely When You Have Kids?
Insanity Is Hereditary…You Get It From Your Kids
Motherhood Is Not a Pastel Teacup with Scrolly Letters
Motherhood, Or How to Accessorize Your Pee Stains
Motherhood: The Land of Indigenous Assvice
My Best “Girlfriend” Advice on How to Be the Best Mom You Can Be
The Irrationality of Motherhood
The Truth About Motherhood: Girlfriend Style
The Truth About Motherhood? To Thine Own Self Be True, but to Those Small Selves Be Truer
The Truth, in Twelve Words or Less
There’ll Be Days Like This My Mama Never Said
Things I Have Learned Since Having a Baby
Things I Wished I Knew Before Becoming a Mom Are Many
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[...] written and erased this post so many times. At first I wanted to be witty and snarky about motherhood, to make my readers laugh. But it felt irreverent and I erased it. Then I wanted to talk about the [...]
My sisters and Girlfriends were great sources of little tips such as
- take the baby’s socks off before changing a poopy diaper
- when you’re putting a change of clothes for baby in the diaper bag, put a clean shirt in for yourself
- strap the baby in the car seat, THEN get dressed for work
- there is no shame in not showering when you have a newborn
- however far you think a newborn can projectile vomit, add five feet
- forget anything you think you know about how things are “supposed” to be done- if that baby will nap in a high chair, leave her there!
I wish my Girlfriends had been able to convey to me what I’ve only been able to learn through experience- exactly HOW tired I would be, but how much I would love her….
Wow, read through these great posts and still reeling from the truth - it ain’t easy - Motherhood is NOT as easy, as I once thought it would be.
Thanks for sharing!
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Worry about them never ends, the older they get the more you pray- you know what’s out there. How tired tired is. When you are raising them it seems like forever, when they are grown- where did time go- I am not ready for it to end.