What we do not tell you about motherhood
At my first appointment monitoring of pregnancy, whereas I only had a single desire / need / interest: hearing of my heart baby Secretary of the place gave me a big brick of 738 pages to read titled Better to live with our child from pregnancy to two years.
Published by the Institute National Public Health of Quebec, this book talks about everything on everything. Everything you need to know to become an ace in the area of maternity. Allowing us to collect the gold medal at the Olympics with the knowledge of family life. Who will make us a candidate with outstanding All for one on installing a car seat and the introduction of solid foods in infants of six months.
For example, we learn in the pages strung a woman healthy weight can be expected to take between 25 to 35 pounds during her pregnancy and that breast milk contains a high amount of omega-3. We will learn to detect if our roseola infant is fighting is normal or if it is unable to say the sounds 'r' and 'l' for two and a half years.
Really, it's a great brick. Which I use all the time. She follows me from room Sam-Sam to the playroom. I have a doubt about the need to give vitamin D to my chick? I have the answer on page 462 of the manual. I wonder if my chick has colic, I go to page 227. I wonder about the fact that my new-born has yet to tears? My answer is found on page 169.
But nothing is perfect in this world, better living has its weaknesses. I quote this book, but it's the same in everything related to maternity. It chatters stuff without problem related to our new role as mom, but we forget a good amount. Yet the information vital to our mental health.
For example, it is essential that trumpets everywhere to take care of our marriage when a third person joins our duo. Need to communicate because "the arrival of a baby makes changes that require adaptation on the part of both parents" (p. 202). But it is nowhere mentioned as third-degree tear can bring a lot of disadvantages for the couple. That give life to a baby leads a flood of emotions that may not be the joy and happiness. That can be very sad face a delivery gone awry and left traces both physical and psychological.
When it comes to enlarge the family, all speak of the importance of preparing well for the sister or brother to his new role to avoid a return to bedwetting or relapse of a pacifier (p. 204). But who thinks to warn the mother that she will live the more difficult this step? Person. Nobody thinks to tell us all the guilt befall us when we will realize that we can no longer care as much with # 1 before. We are given
1001 tips to avoid that our baby has a flat head (p. 251), that he is interested in reading (p.262) or to assist in learning to speak ( p. 265), but not a chapter, not a page, not even a small sentence on the feeling of passing from a mother who is no longer able to endure her baby crying for too long and that has only one desire: to "tap" her mouth with Duct Tape, never to hear it.
Motherhood can be wonderful. It makes us discover the best of ourselves.
But cursed so that it can be shit too.
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