I’m a 28-year-old first time mom born, raised, and currently living in South Texas. I’ve been married to my high school sweetheart for three years and we share an overly decorated house with our son, Blake, and our golden retriever, Daphne. I’m a former high school English teacher who, honestly, would rather read Harry Potter over Shakespeare any day. In my limited free time I enjoy reading, knitting, surfing Pinterest, and scrolling through Netflix for an hour only to end up rewatching Parks and Rec in its entirety for the fifth (maybe 6th?) time.

 

 

 

 

My road to motherhood was filled with hope, disappointment, and countless doctor appointments as I was diagnosed with Unexplained Infertility after a year of trying. Eventually, my husband and I underwent an Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) to conceive our beautiful son. My pregnancy and delivery were free of sickness, stress, and drama. After going through the nightmare of infertility, what followed was a complete dream. As a mother I am pro “do whatever you feel is best”. The judgement and guilt surrounding mother’s these days is outrageous and I refuse to participate in it. Personally, I have vaccinated, fed with a combination of breastfeeding, pumping, and formula, co-slept, baby wore, and try to be as gender neutral as possible.

 

 

Being a new mom is hard, which is why the instant I found out I would become one I turned to mom blogs and forums for advice and empathy. Now that I know everything there is to know about motherhood (that was deeply sarcastic, btw), I thought I would share my journey through this blog. I definitely have not mastered motherhood, and probably never will, but I have been pooped on, wept in pain while breastfeeding, and have survived on less than 2 hours of sleep a night for an entire month. And sometimes just knowing there is someone out there as frustrated, exhausted, and overwhelmed as you is all you need to keep going.