MyMummyBlog

  I feel pregnancy is a different experience for everyone, even though you may seem similar to someones situation, the emotions will always be different throughout the experience. Some of us hate pregnancy and some of us love it. But the ones that do hate it (myself included) I have noticed feel some guilt around that subject and that’s what I’d like to touch on today   You see pregnancy is a whirlwind of changes. A new baby, new feelings, your body is used up and has the nutrients sucked right out of it in my case. This regards both my pregnancy’s where my first child gave me morning sickness and hospital trips throughout and my second well… she nearly killed me several times. Now as scary as that may sound, thankfully I was okay and so was she. But the trauma still follows me even after they were born, leaving me terrified of getting pregnant again.  Now as much as I absolutely adore my children it did leave me asking myself; can I go through another pregnancy? Knowing ...

We always hear about post-partum depression but never just about the general mental health struggles that mothers face. The days where we just feel as though nothing is in our favour. The thoughts that surround and torment us during waking hours, feelings we just can’t shake no matter how hard we try. That pit of loneliness and jealousy we find ourselves falling into as familiar faces turn into acquaintances over time.  We don’t talk about the day to day lives of mothers struggling just to even go to the toilet in peace, something we once took for granted before having children. A box of chocolates that we try to indulge ourselves in until we hear the pitter patter of little feet coming to interrupt our treat, the one thing we had looked forward to at the end of a tiring day.  Our daily routines work us on auto-pilot, functioning us to become robot-like as we list all the to-do’s to make it run smoothly. Wake up, breakfast, clean, play, lunch… etc. Then as the children go to b...

Perfect adjective /ˈpəːfɪkt/  Having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be. The perfect parent is something every mother/father strives to be and what most of us fail at overtime, realising we’re never going to meet this unrealistic expectation that society has thrown at us.  The pressure created by staged Instagram posts and lies that are publicised through Facebook posts fill out feeds everyday, leading to insecurities within ourselves that can’t be fixed. But even though we know these posts are lies, why do we listen to them? We know that they’re posing for a pat on the back and yet we still let them affect us? This is (in my experience) due to our own self-doubt and negative surroundings.  You see these posts make us feel inadequate due to the fact we want to be these perfectly staged parents but when we look in the mirror we are everything but. We would love to feel full of energy and excitement beaming...