by Trisha Ashworth
This book is nothing like I thought it would be. I thought it was going to be about how women without kids judge women with kids until they have their own, when everything they once judged becomes their norm.
Instead, I’ve found wisdom in what I have been thinking and feeling. Sometimes I feel like I have certain expectations to live up to. Turns out, other moms have felt these high expectations. What a relief!
As I read this book, I got more and more confidence that I am doing a good job being a mom. I'm not the only one who stresses out because I'm stressing out over the baby. Many of the experiences I was having as a new mom, someone had gone before me and felt the same way I did through it. The smiles and giggles from my Emmett increase that confidence as well.
I will also say that since reading this book, either Emmett has gotten easier (let's be serious, he's super easy, so it must not be that he has gotten easier) or I have found myself less stressed out about things that used to bother me. I give myself freedom to not get stressed out, to take a breath when I need to.
I encourage women who are not moms yet to read this so they can set reasonable expectations and see what may happen later on to be prepared. I also encourage moms at any stage to read this and find out that you are, in fact, normal. What a freeing book.
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