No one told me just how much poop, vomit, and other body fluids I would deal with as a parent, a lot of it with my bare hands and a few baby wipes.
No one told me that I would learn to survive on 3 hours of interrupted sleep and still get up and keep the kids alive the next day. And no one warned me that I would live like that for 6 months straight after my youngest child was born.
No one told me that the constant demands from four kids all needing something from me at the same time would be enough to make me want to hide, rocking, in a corner somewhere while my blood pressure skyrocketed.
No one told me that I would cry when my babies got shots or how much my heart would ache when my kindergartner tearfully told me that kids on the playground were making fun of her because of her hair.
No one told me that there would be days when I would sit down to eat supper with Hubby after the kids went to bed and realize that it was the first time I'd eaten or sat down all day.
And seriously...if someone had told me that I would have a baby with a feeding tube, a list of 12 diagnoses, and a possible genetic syndrome who screamed for his first 6 months of life, I would've run crying from the room.
When you read all of that, being a mom sounds awful.
But here's the secret...no one tells you how your heart nearly explodes with love when that tiny baby is placed in your arms. No one tells you that one ounce of the good stuff in parenting is so amazing that it cancels out 2 tons of the bad stuff. No one tells you that no matter how hard it gets, you'll just keep on going and know in your soul that it's worth it.
Honestly, no one could have told me because until I became a mom, there's no way I could've understood.
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