Becoming a Mum was quite a shock. OK I had 9 months to prepare myself. But even 10 years would not have prepared me for motherhood!  Mums tend to keep quiet about certain aspects of motherhood, or maybe they just forget… These are just a few of the issues I really should tell my mum she should have warned me about! 

1. Sleepless nights with a crying baby are not the same as sleepless nights because you are dancing the night away in the local night club.

2. After baby is born going to the shops with unidentifiable goo on your shoulder becomes your new fashion accessory and you don’t even care what it looks like.

3. Gone are the days when you can have a wee:

a, in private,
b, without discussing the merits of Bob the Builder at the same time
c, without being congratulated for actually ‘going’
d, without being awarded a sticker for the aforementioned success in using the toilet for it’s proper purpose

4. Coffee is meant to be drank hot.

5. Baby things you look at in the shop, like pushchairs, look lightweight, simple to fold and very movable. But they are never that light, movable and certainly not easy to fold up and put in the car once you have your baby.

6. If you have something very important to do, this is the time your offspring will demand your attention by sticking himself to your left leg and not letting go.

7. You stop having a 1st name and your own identity over night, and become someone’s Mummy.

Of course my mum neglected to mention other parts of motherhood as well:

It is the single most important, wonderful and incredible thing I could ever have done in my life.

I am not quite sure that I am responsible enough for the task of motherhood.

My youngster reminds me time and time again that I am rubbish at easy things like: jumping up and down, remembering the all the words to Old MacDonald IN THE RIGHT ORDER, and remembering imaginary friends names.

However my youngster will forget all that and remember how I held them all night when they felt poorly. How I am are the one they ran to when they scraped their knee. How I am the 1st person they will tell something exciting to.

I guess mums don’t warn us about how hard a job motherhood can be, but at the same time we don’t tell our mums  what a wonderful job they have done either.