By Janet Nsikan
When you get to that cycle in motherhood where your baby starts walking, and you look back at the photos you took when they were tiny ,you are amazed at how you took care of your precious baby till they got so big. That period of total commitment, mentally, physically and spiritually has made a huge impact on my life as a mother and a person.
Let me share with you five things I learned during my first year of motherhood:
1. To trust my instincts. `zI learnt to have more confidence in myself.
I know my baby best.
2. To relax! That it is more important to enjoy things than to constantly
worry about getting things right.
3. I can survive without a lot less sleep than I ever thought!
4. Not to compare myself to other moms as motherhood is not a competition.
5.That I didn’t know what love was until I held my baby for the first time.
What about you African Mommy, what did you learn from your first year of motherhood?
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I learned that you need all the help you can get. Honestly. Thought not all advices are right due to the ancient ways of doing stuff, you definitely need all the help you can get.
I learnt that when you become a mother,u are a mother for life….I thought I had seen and felt love when I got married…This love blew me away when I had my child.A mother’s love for her child is pure
So true
Before and during pregnancy, my man was my world to the extent that I Cando anything, go extra mile to keep the love burning. Little did I know it was only but stages. immediately I put to bed, all the love and care was automatically transferred to my son. Frankly I don’t know how it happened, but the truth was everything I do was my son first. I learnt that the bundle mother & child shares is beyond human comprehension.