What didnt you expect when you became a Mother?

Okay ladies, I need some help. Im writing a paper on Wisdom. My specific topic is being a parent and gaining wisdom by experience. I have to site some opinions & I'd like some of you ladies to answera questionPLEASE!

What was the most overwhelming experience you had when you FIRST became a mother?

The answer can be a long as you like  
If I have any more questions, I will edit the post!
Thanks ladies!!

The crying.

It still overwhelms me. Makes me want to smash my head against a concrete wall.

i didnt expect it would be so hard to learn my baby! like his crys and what he wants and his schedule...etc...

The amount of sleep I need to function dramitically decreased

the most overwhelming experience of being a first time mom for me was the no me time. i am a cleaning nut and it was very hard for me to not have time, or to be too tired, to clean. it was also very hard, at first, for me to let my husband help while i napped. i know it sounds odd, but i felt like i was a bad mom at first if i was ever asleep while my son was awake.

Staying up all night every night with a colicky SCREAMING baby, and still having to get shit done during the day.

I always knew babies peed on you once you opened their diaper but mine poops. I never expected it and one time she got me.....she got me good!  

The crying or the lack of sleep. People always told me that I wouldnt sleep when he got here, but I really didn't listen. Boy was I in for a suprise.

I didn't realize how sacred sleep actually was. It was so overwhelming going through labor and delievery, being tired as hell from that, and then being sleep deprived for the next 8 weeks til she started sleeping through the night. Sleep is definitely a beautiful thing  

Quoting [ISAIAH'S] MOMMY. *BBM:“ The crying or the lack of sleep. People always told me that I wouldnt sleep when he got here, but I really didn't listen. Boy was I in for a suprise.”

I totally agree.

The night I had Drake, I couldn't sleep a wink. I just laid in the hospital bed all night, crying, holding him in my arms because I had never loved something so much in my life. Something so precious. And I didn't ever want him to feel pain and I was afraid to share him with the cruel world....

The second I held my daughter was the most emotionally overwhelming experience for me. I never knew I could feel something so strongly for something so tiny.

The most physically overwhelming experience was when she was itty bitty, pooped EVERYWHERE, all over me, the couch, herself up to her ears in yellow-gooey poop. I was recovering from a c-section as a single mom, and I was alone. I literally didn't even know where to begin to clean up. I started crying so hard, I had never felt so alone in my life.

I didn't know how I was going to clean her and myself if I couldn't even get her in a tub by myself. I thought if I couldn't clean up my kid's own shit I'd NEVER be a good Mom. It took me over an hour to clean up everything, but I got it done, and 30 minutes later she pooped again lmao.

i didn't expect to be so overcome with emotion every time i look at him. everything he does just amazes me....
i didn't expect i'd be so excited over poop. or laugh when i got pee in the face...
i didn't expect to be so worried about the flu...
i didn't expect that the word mama(or mamamamamamama as chan says) would make me cry tears of joy...
and i definitely didn't expect that i could love someone as much as i love my son....

It was that I wished that her dad was there and actually cared. I sat at home and cried for weeks and weeks because he was never there for her and flat out told me he didn't care.

How much I would be needed....It's the best feeling in the world, and I never expected it.
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