What I hate about Motherhood
Depression. There have been times in my life where I have felt depression. -My mom moving out when I was 10 -Heartbreak in the teen years -Job hunting after college But never have I been 6 feet under in depression until motherhood. The 48 hours following birth are a blur of nurses giving you instructions that you will likely forget, hoping you smell or look alright even though you haven't brushed your teeth in days , and really important legal documents they make you fill out when you are extremely fatigued and sleep deprived. But then you go home and the meals eventually stop coming in and people start expecting you to keep moving with life. How in the world do you keep moving with life whenever you are physically healing from the most traumatizing thing that your body has ever experienced and you have a living human being that you are responsible for keeping alive... without a manual ? I had babysat, read all of the books, and even hav...