When Kellie from Three Li’l Princesses emailed me and told me she had written an e-book, I was excited.
Then, after reading Only Hearts Should Be Worn On Sleeves: The Snotty Truth About Motherhood, I was relieved.
Because as much as I love Kellie, no one wants to promote a dud.
This e-book is at the opposite end of the scale to dud.
To show you how far from dud Kellie is I have secured a coveted guest post by Kellie on the Only Hearts Should Be Worn On Sleeves: The Snotty Truth About Motherhood vitual book tour!
Enjoy!
A Mother’s Top 5 Concerns Pre-Baby
It’s funny how a garbage
truck load of pooey nappies and three milk tankers of boobie juice can change your perspective on parenting. In the days of being “up the duff’’, I never imagined how I was going to juggle the whole “being a mother thing’’. Sure, I could conduct an interview with some of the world’s brattiest celebrities and keep my cool, but taming a one-year-old? That sounded petrifying.
Somehow, I’ve survived – twice. With Princess Ella now aged four and Li’l Holly 18 months, life is that little bit easier as they become more independent. That’s not to say the post-baby years are easy. Just visit our house at 8.30am every morning.
With the baby stage gone, it’s given me cause to reflect on what my top 5 concerns were pre-baby:
- Dressing a baby. I kept having visions of a frantic octopus and me trying to get all eight arms through the eye of a needle.
- Breastfeeding and expressing. I imagined the “milking machine’’ would latch on too tightly, suck out of control and I’d be yelling for The Bloke In The Shed to come yank it off my chest.
- Never sleeping again. For someone whose version of a late night was usually 8.30pm and who could still manage to sleep in until 9am every day, getting up at all hours to feed and change Ella and Holly was like depriving Paris Hilton of boys.
- How on earth I have a shower. It’s amazing how clean you can get from 2½ baby wipes.
- Losing my perfect innie. I imagined my belly button would forever be an outie, complete with Angelina Jolie-looking lips, after popping out mid pregnancy. Instead, now it looks like the Grand Canyon.
Some days I still wonder how on earth Ella was able to be dressed and fed, while I managed miniscule moments of sleep, a shower and the return of my innie. But we mothers are pretty adaptable creatures. Even if it means gaining a head full of grey hairs in the process.
What were your biggest concerns pre-baby? What were the things you wished someone had told you about?
Kellie O’Brien is a journalist, funny mummy blogger, mum to two li’l princesses and a li’l princess herself, at just 150cms. OK, so that’s being a tad generous. At Three Li’l Princesses, she provides a look inside the life of Tasmania’s “other” princess – all minus Princess Mary’s style. She is also author of the new ebook Only Hearts Should Be Worn On Sleeves: The Snotty Truth About Motherhood.
Congratulations Kellie! How super exciting to finally have a book. I’m looking forward to reading it.
What I was worried about prebaby? Well, not much with my first. I didn’t worry until second time round when I was told I was having twins! That’s when the nightmares started. I’d wake up from a bad one and think, phew it was a dream but then realise it wasn’t a dream at all.
Luckily, I shouldn’t have been worried. They were such pros at being good babies that most of my nightmares and worries didn’t come true at all.
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Oh wow, Penny. I’ve always admired mums of multiples. I’m sure I’d cope if I were put into that situation, but when you’re having those tough days with ONE child, you start to wonder!!
Glad you got good bubbas though. It certainly makes life easier!
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Oh Man I was so much more worried with out twins than I was with Roo as well!
Mine weren’t as much pros at being good babies, but they’ve gotten better!
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What didn’t I worry about???!!!
Apparently, the genuine concerns – like surgeries on tiny little body parts and the medical merry-go-round that is designed to send you loopy.
I worried about breastfeeding – in particular the breast part….
My nipples just didn’t seem adequately equipped.
I worried about money. Or the lack thereof…
Somehow, we still have a legitimate address, so I could have chilled on that a tad.
I worried about the nursery…
Not realising that no matter what the room looks like, you do not want to spend days on end in there.
I worried that that cocktail/elephant ride/white water rafting/soft serve icecream/ dengue fever in Thailand had damged my tiny one when I was blissfully unaware…
I’ve seen junkies give birth to perfectly healthy children.
The e-book sounds terrific.
xx
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Oh my goodness! Now that’s a list!
Have to agree I had ALL these on my list too. But I am a worry wart by nature!
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And look at how well you are doing now! Sometimes I am sure worrying is as important as being excited! Prepares us for the worst, and most of the time the worst never happens!
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I was a nursery worry wart as well, Shar! The e-book IS terrific!
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You pretty much nailed the top five for me – except the one about the perfect innie. I never had one of those to start with! I also definitely worried about post baby relationship with hubby. Happy to say all is well there
(sadly, still no perfect innie).
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LOL Kylie. Oh, you poor thing. I bet you’ve got a lovely belly button. Well, as far as belly buttons go! (OK, that’s too much talk about belly buttons for me!)
The relationship with hubby was a big one on my list too. We actually had long chats about it, I remember. And all is good here too! x
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Our relationship wasn’t actually much of a concern for me, when it should have been! All is good now but we certainly had a rough trot the second year of Roo’s life (and the first of the twins’)!
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I want to get this book. It seems very helpful to me as a mother. As a mother I need to perform all those five ways for my baby. As a mother it is my responsibility to take good care of my child.
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It is really stressful taking a baby yet quite challenging. Even though it is stressful as long as you are happy what you are doing that is great. If ever I will be a mom I will make sure to follow all those responsibilities.
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