The First Post

Six months in to motherhood I am finally starting this blog. If you have kids you'll understand why it's taken six months. If you haven't and you don't, it's best you don't ask.

They have been the most amazing, exhausting, challenging and rewarding six months of my life. I have grown so much, literally as well as metaphorically thanks to all the cake, and really discovered where my strengths and weaknesses lie. Parenthood has left me so exposed, so vulnerable, but I have discovered strength I didn't even know I had.



It's also been a very steep learning curve. I thought I'd prepared well, but it turned out I knew diddly squat about what I actually needed to know and I've had to muddle through, learning most stuff the hard way. But in doing so I have learned so much, about the big things and the little things, and it seems a shame not to share this new-found knowledge. It would be wonderful to think even one mum's life became a little easier because of something she'd read on here. And even if no one ever reads any of it, I want to record all this so that if we are lucky enough to have another baby, future me, with her tired, fuzzy baby-brain, can have a look and remember what to do.

Because I've noticed that all parents are fully immersed in the stage they are in, with no headspace for the rest. My own mum, who has been an amazing mum for 37 years and is doing a great job of supporting a new parent, looks at me blankly when I ask her what she did with us when we were newborn. I feel like I will never forget any of this, but maybe I will. When walking, talking, schooling and all those other unimaginable milestones happen I guess these baby daze will be hazy.

So here we go; this blog, like many other parenting blogs out there, will record the highs and lows, triumphs and disasters, questions, problems and solutions I deal with in this big adventure I am on. I waited a long time to be a mummy and this is how it's going.