A Better Way: Mother's Month & One Year Anniversary Contest Winner
My life forever changed two years ago. Sleepless, tired and overwhelmed, I searched internet for advice in the precious moments that I should of used to sleep. I thought there was a magic answer, a magic product that will solve it all: my confusion, depression, this shifted body and leaking boobs that were no longer mine. Advice was everywhere...how to swaddle, which swing is the best, teething pills, lullaby CDs. I bought into all of it. I tried everything. I had a spark of hope every time I swiped my credit card to buy the next “it” thing.
You see to me, the first year of my daughter’s life was like sailing against the wind. It was still a beautiful experience...and it was tough and exhausting and there were times I wanted to give up. But the wind changed. It always does. I found my rhythm and started enjoying the journey instead of trying to fix it.
If I can pick one thing, ONE thing that made a difference: it's the other moms saying it will get better, that she will sleep, that she will stop screaming one day and hug me for no reason at all, that she will say "mama," that she will kiss me when I feel sad and she will be kind to a random bug on the ground, that she will change my jaded world with her innocence and optimism.
No product in the world could of done that. So, thank you moms.
Author: Ilona Siller
