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Mom shares honest truth about the first 9 months post-partum

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(The Modern Mumma)

Mel Watts is a blogger and mother of two from Australia. On her blog, The Modern Mumma, she shares stories of her adventures in parenting, hoping other new moms will read them and realize they’re not alone.

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Recently, she shared a picture of herself on Facebook, wearing a bikini nine months after giving birth to her daughter.

“In the last 9 months I have never slept so little in my life,” she says. “In the last nine months I have suffered my worst anxiety I have ever experienced. Having a new baby is exhausting and life just doesn’t stop. The bills still need to be paid, Groceries still need to be purchased and the pressure you put on yourself is overwhelming.”

Being her second child, she figured she would know what to do but that wasn’t the case.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s your first or if it’s your third you’re still learning daily. The first 9 months of your babies life is filled with guessing, rocking, smiling and crying. The amount of pressure we put ourselves isn’t fair. We aren’t invincible.
We’re humans and we’re mothers.”

She then goes on to explain that being a new mom can be tough and that it’s okay to feel like you’re not “good enough” some days. She also advises new moms not to compare themselves to other mothers out there.

“Some women seem to have it all. Well so we think. Some women don’t. I don’t. I didn’t have the motivation to even get dressed for the first 9 months let alone get my pre baby body back. And that’s ok. If you do have the motivation good on you! Do everything in your own time, don’t rush because you think that’s what society excepts of you.”

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Despite everything she’s been through the last nine months, she ends her post on a positive note.

“Cheers to first 9 months of poop, spew and crappy sleep. We (I) survived and we smashed it.”

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