What is Motherhood Like?

Motherhood in my perspective is challenging, joyful, trying, and full of lots of different experiences. I as a mother never expected it to be this way. I never thought it would be easy, but I never thought it would this hard. I really love watching my daughter grow and develop into a beautiful girl. She is very alert and happy.

I had a very hard time in the beginning because she couldn't latch on to breastfeed and the hospital did not show me how to use a breast pump. I had a friend show me and that was a big help. I still have a hard time because my daughter still wants to wake up twice a night when she should be sleeping all through the night. It is very frustrating for me, I feel like I did in the beginning, tired all the time. So I have a few things I am going to try that I hope will help.

My daughter wants to get into everything and anything. She is very curious. She can pull herself up on a table and stand up. She tries to get up on other things too. Sometimes it is hard chasing her all over the place, but it can be fun. I like that she has interest in everything. When we go for a walk in her stroller, she reaches her hand out to try and touch things like flowers and plants.

Motherhood can be rewarding even if it feels challenging. The thing to remember is they are only a baby once and it will never happen again. So enjoy that time while you can. Find patience and tolerance. It can be hard, very hard at times, but think about how you can positively help your little one and the happier you are when you do something with them, the easier it will be on your child. They feel your stress and that makes it harder even when they already are upset. you don't get the same feelings of being a mother as you do if you babysit a child. There's an unexplainable love you feel for your own. Being a mother is the best thing that has even happened to me.