motherhood

Motherhood is: Having mixed emotions about your baby starting kindergarten

You'd think I wouldn't need to blink an eye about today, but you're wrong.

Once we became parents, we had to throw our old version of ‘normal’ out the window

My family was complete and perfect, and very far from what we first considered "normal."

What happens to a woman’s brain when she becomes a mother

Motherhood changes our brains and writer Chelsea Conaboy wants us to know that.

Motherhood is: Trying to remember what I came into this room for…

Pregnancy brain is so real.

To the mama who wonders if she’ll ever figure out this whole ‘motherhood’ thing

Because motherhood is a lot of things. It's messy. It's exhausting. It's joyful. It's rewarding. And it's unpredictable.

You are slaying the mental load of motherhood every single day, mama

Even on the days when it feels like you got "nothing" done.

True life: I wake up feeling exhausted every day

Sometimes I look at my husband and say, "I think if I could sleep for about five days, then I would feel rested again."

Dear Amazon Prime Day—are you the answer to my mental load or are you adding to it?

What would I do if I had five Echo Dots? I don't know, but let's find out because they're only $29! THESE DOTS ARE THE TICKET TO EFFICIENCY.

The weight of my mental load is heavy—but I don’t know how to fix it

I wish I could hand off my mental load—but if I didn't do it, who would?

I would never trade my life, but sometimes I’m jealous of moms who don’t have babies anymore

They weren't physical things I coveted. Oh no. What I coveted most were ease and freedom.

Motherhood is: Having no days off

You should know that every day no longer belongs to you. It belongs to your baby.

True life: Toddlers and ‘personal space’ don’t mix

To her, what's mine is hers and what's hers is hers. Where I am she is.

Motherhood is: Parenting with your heart, not your ego

I need to embrace the idea that nurturing, supporting, and loving my child has everything to do with encouraging them to be the best version of themselves and nothing to do with raising a miniature version of me.

The one gift all new mamas *really* need? Grace

Maybe it's letting them know that whether you do or don't fully understand, that you admire them and love them—No. Matter. What.

Instead of trying to ‘fix’ it for my kids, I’m going to listen instead

Be in that moment with them. Sit with them in that pain, without simply trying to get out of it.

To all the single moms who feel the intensity of being the only parent—I see you

My son and I remain a two-person squad, untouched by outside influence, interacting with each other on the most fundamental level.

Throwing away our stroller, I realized: I don’t have babies anymore

It was my faithful friend since the day my first baby was born.

To the mama whose mind and heart are feeling heavy this week

It may feel like we are worlds apart, but we all share something in common: our all-consuming love for our children.

After having a second baby, I needed to rediscover my parenting confidence

With only a few places where I still felt capable of taking my children, our world seemed to shrink for a few solid months.

8 phrases that will change your thinking when your child acts out, mama

Phrases like "terrible twos" aren't harmless, cute words. They profoundly impact what we expect and, therefore, what we see.