8 Things No One Told You About Motherhood

What did you know about motherhood before you became a mum? Where do we even begin. Is it the cries of your newborn that keeps you awake at night, or the tantrums of a toddler that makes you wonder what deity you have offended? Or is it the tenacious nature of your teenager that makes you furious or proud, only to have that rewarding hug some years later, or be told those four words that melts every mother’s heart, ‘I love you mum‘.

Here are 10 thing that no one tells you about motherhood:

1. You’ll Become a Song and Dance Woman

Mothers do not give this heads-up to each other, you will become a human song machine. You’re going to make songs out of everything to soothe your baby, even your own name will not escape this routine.

2. You may always have a scattered living room/bedroom

When you have toddlers running around, they enjoy putting things out of place right after you arrange them. This may be the pattern for sometime, even if you are super-mum.

3. You have a new found appreciation for other parents and their children

Before you became a mother, you could care little for a baby crying on a bus, or a mother walking under the hot sun with her baby, or the mother grinding beans in the market with her toddler sitting on the floor beside her. Now, everything tugs at the strings of your heart, even if its just for a few minutes, the little things matter more to you.

4. You constantly worry

Maybe it is your hormones that never stop acting up, but all through your life as a mother, you will constantly worry. In a good way and bad way. It becomes something you know how to do well, until you learn that no matter how much you love your children, there are some things you just cannot control. But you worry still.

5. Your priorities completely change.

You might be surprised how much your priorities will change once your little one arrives. If you are planning to go back to work quickly after your baby is born, you might change your mind as you realize that there is more to life than your next pay check. If you were a social person, for sometime you may just want to enjoy the company of your baby and exclude the world.

6. You’ll gain and lose friends

You may loose your non-mum friends, because they feel like you have nothing’fun‘ to offer anymore. In the same light, you’ll be adding newer people to your clique, mothers, with whom you have common ground.

7. You will begin to love your husband in a different way

He will annoy you, so much so that you may not even want to speak or be around him. Then, all of a sudden, you are watching him play with your children or child, run around, sing songs, dance with them, that whatever he did that made you upset doesn’t even come close at all to the joy he is bringing to your heart at that moment.

8. You will never find motherhood boring

The best advice of all: try to stay in the moment and enjoy both the sunshine and the squalls ahead. No matter what your child is like, or your motherhood journey is like, it is going to be filled with so many interesting events and hurdles, that you will never have the opportunity to be bored