When you decide to become a Mother, you really don’t have a personal clue to what mothering is all about! Oh I know, you think you do, after all, you had a mother, you loved her (maybe even still do), but what that represented to you, was clean clothes, supper on the table, running you here and there, putting band aids on your skinned up knees, and someone who cried when you stood in front of the kindergarten class and said two words at the Christmas play!
Now you think mothering is something you want to try! Well, please be advised, when you try it, you had better do your best to get informed beforehand, some of what it entails.
I believe the first thing I can relate to being a mother, is the lack of sleep! Try waking every one and one half hours, to feed a newborn, every night and throughout the day!
Try walking a colicky baby back and forth across the kitchen floor, trying to keep him quiet so Dad can sleep to rise early and get to work! Try changing countless diapers during the day, mixing formula, cleaning house, with baby in a front pack, dozing off just to have baby nap time come to an abrupt end at that precise minute.
Mothering is not something we can fully explain, it is not something you can label then figure you have it all capsulized! It changes with every human being, what we consider a good mom in one household, may vary when entering the next.
In general, when you choose to become a Mother, make certain you choose to Mother for the love of Love! For that is your greatest reward, Love! No matter the style any Mother should adopt, her children will love her at the slightest provocation, just for the sake of love!
Try it, you will love it!