5 Things I Learned: New Mom Revelations

Guilt and Feelings of Inadequacy: I had boat-loads of it as a new mom. Take comfort ladies, if you can. These were some of my hard-learned realizations and lessons:

1) Your experience will be unique - and you're justified in however "easy" or "hard" you feel being a mom is.

I had a "hard" first baby - preterm, couldn't latch on, trouble staying awake to eat at all, reflux, very colicky, etc. - and I desperately felt it must have been me "doing things wrong". "Everyone else" seemed to have no trouble at all!

Lessons, Affirmations, and Wandering Thoughts from a First-Time Lone Traveler

1.  Leave Early. Ridiculously Early. You could get all the way to the airport without incident,
misread a sign there, accidentally exit the airport roadway and get dumped back onto a highway...
Well, some simpleton might do something like that.