You’re really not.

It’s okay to feel clumsy and clueless. To pore over parenting books and blogs. ⠀
To ache when your baby cries, and cry when your baby aches.

Our society pitches us against each other. Criticises the nervous, raises up the confident.

Well I’m here to tell you that it’s nonsense. When you become a mother you really do just learn as you go along.

I jokingly referred to my 10 year old as my poor lab rat the other day. She thought that quite funny.

Examples? Well, when I first took her home from the hospital I thought I had to bath her. Goodness knows why, I probably saw it on television. Anyway, I put her in the bath and she freaked...hated it...yelled..and yelled.

I cried.

When I brought the twins home? I didn’t bath them for a couple of weeks. They were perfect and smelled gorgeous, just as they were.

When the oldest had a temperature I thought she was just teething, I didn’t want to make a fuss, be that type of mum. Turned out that she had an ear infection.

When my son had a temperature? Yup, I took him to the GP... ear infection and antibiotics.

When the oldest got croup... I didn’t know what it was, so I called an ambulance. I thought she was choking on something, I panicked. The paramedics were sweet (with a bit of eye-rolling), steroids were given at hospital and I was swiftly dispatched with an information leaflet.

When in turn each of the twins got croup? Well, we sat in the garden, wrapped in blankets until they felt more comfortable, then popped into A&E for some meds if it didn’t settle.

And the list goes on and on and on...from starting school to friendship groups through verrucas and picky eating to mobile phones and tech time.⠀
We are all just learning as we go along. There is no perfect mother... apart from you for your kids of course!

I promise, you’re really not meant to know it all 💗