advice for new parents
Turns out new parents don't handle change all that well.
When you're a new parent, you believe a self-created hype: Your kid is the brightest, most beautiful, wonderful child in the world. Yeah... That bubble pops as the kid grows.
From lettuce baths to "baby bird feeding."
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Your house will never be clean again.
I never thought I could experience so many emotions, and I never could have anticipated the ways life would change.
We seem to ignore, or to overlook, that several aspects of the experience of motherhood place a new mother in a state of great loneliness.
I think this kind of talk about babies and motherhood doesn't do new parents any favors.