Super Mammy Diaries

Hi Mamas, Ever since I was hospitalised in May and was diagnosed with chronic migraines (the medicines made me wean my daughter overnight which many may have read in my post on the ways to wean ), something that has been trigged by interrupted sleep of all things. I realised that I can no longer go on ignoring myself and my own needs endlessly. This has not changed the way I parent in any way, I am just as hands-on, working as many hours (maybe more, thanks to Instagram's stories feature that requires more content from my end, and some more exciting surprises that I have in store for all my regular social media followers), but I've learned a lot about my limits too, and I've learned to prioritise myself a little more. One of the things I decided to prioritize on the journey to getting healthier was my fitness. In order to feel better I knew that I needed to work on my self-esteem to and the weight I was at, was not working for me. Whether it looked like that to the outside ...

Nobody tells you that you will probably go home in diapers too. I often hear moms discussing their labor experiences, and even telling moms to be about how wonderful (yes, somehow I have heard a few - okay,  only one-  person say this), or over rated or even horrific their labor experience has been. However, I rarely, if ever, hear anyone discuss their post partum experience. We like to focus on the positives - the baby, and on what we are doing for the baby, but we dismiss the most important component: ourselves and our amazing bodies that have literally created and brought those babies into the world (and yes, that's valid no matter which way your child came out). I recently read that it takes 2 years for our bodies to completely recover from pregnancy and child birth, and some of us have multiple pregnancies within a 2 year span, so it is a long road to recovery and one that should not be so easily dismissed or forgotten. The immediate aftermath is particularly stressful as...