It’s amazing the expectations we as mothers, and society in general, put on this thing called motherhood. With all the happy photos of mothers glowing at a belly that’s finally starting to show, the ideals of the working mother who “has it all”, and the crafty super-mothers who have figured out how to keep the house perfectly clean despite triplet toddlers, a moody teen, and a husband who’s gone all week while she’s successfully running an organic mini-farm which has its own top ranked YouTube channel (ok, that last one’s a bit of a sarcastic exaggeration), we all have these images in our heads of the kind of mom we will be.

How many of us honestly thought our husband would have a great nine-to-five job, that the children would be perfectly spaced, you would have time for a couple projects that kept you happy and active, and that you’d be able to keep the house tidy while making dinners from scratch and greet your husband at the door with a cup of coffee and a kiss, saying “Dinner will be ready in fifteen minutes.”

Not much room for reality in there, huh?

Yeah.

You’re not alone.

Meet Our Writers

Rose D’Andrea

As a survivor of hyperemesis gravidarum, mom to a NICU Graduate, and a mother who breastfed for a total of 7 years who had to overcome a couple challenges, she knows what it feels like to have motherhood thrown off script. She looks forward to sharing with you her tips, suggestions, and links to research and articles that just may help make this motherhood thing a little easier.

Rose also blogs at: https://rosedandrea.wordpress.com/

She’s also co-owner of IkeAndIndie.com

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Anna Fitch

Anna enjoyed being a special education teacher’s assistant for five and a half years, right up until her due date with her first child. She breastfed both of her children. And now balances life with two school aged kids, her writing, and her gluten free baking adventures.

She is the other co-owner of IkeAndIndie.com She writes the blog posts over there, too: https://rosedandreacom.wordpress.com/blogs/news/https://rosedandreacom.wordpress.com/blogs/news/

Kassy McGary

Kassy is a homemaker and mom of twins. She had slowly been working towards a Special Education Teaching degree online while being a mother when burnout forced her to focus on her personal life. Balancing helping two newly widowed women in her life and being in between houses has given her plenty to handle there. Her writing focuses on mothering through life change, managing motherhood with mental health and ADHD, and focusing on the beautiful while we make our way through this chaotic life.

Lucinda Sutherland

Motherhood went off-script for me when I was 21, at the end of my first pregnancy. Our baby was stillborn and I learned that I truly need God’s help to deal with all of life. We eventually had four healthy daughters and ten grandchildren. We homeschooled even as we lived on many different Air Force bases. While completing my BA degree I learned to assist my ADHD brain by knitting. I also enjoy reading, singing, and acting.