Unexpected things about motherhood:
1) I wash my hands.
I'm not a totally gross non-handwasher. But now that I'm dealing with a small person, I find myself just washing my hands more so I don't make her sick. I'm washing often enough that I need to moisturize my hands regularly. At least I'm starting to use all the many bottle of lotions I've had lying around for years.
2) It's not how much you sleep; it's how you sleep.
I probably get as much sleep now as I got before the mini arrived. Perhaps even more. But I was used to waking up whenever my body wanted to wake up. During pregnancy that was sometimes 3AM. Now I also wake up at 3AM regularly--not because my body is ready to, but the mini is ready for me to.
3) Breastfeeding is not natural.
We're definitely BF, but it's not intuitive on many, many levels. I find sticky, leaky, (squirty) breasts way grosser than getting peed or pooped on.
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re bf: ick.
awesome.
The first two pretty much go with work for me :).. the last one I found interesting. The advice I keep getting about BF is- have really really low expectations. But grosser than gooey poop? weird to imagine.