Initiation into Motherhood
There are certain things that others will warn you about when you're pregnant. "Get ready for your life to change!" they'll say. Or, be prepared to not get any sleep. But you'll find yourself totally unprepared really important or totally surprising parts of motherhood. The second time around, these little known (or easily forgotten) aspects have both taken me by surprise and totally caught me off guard. So here I am spilling the dirt on what first time moms really need to know headed into motherhood. 1. The first couple months after having a baby, your body goes haywire. Your emotions are all over the place (more on that later), you're exhausted, yet bored. And juust when things start to even out a little, the postpartum hair loss begins. It started for me when my baby was about three months old. For the past couple weeks, every time I wash my hair or even run my fingers through it, I lose huge chunks of it. While we're discussing hair loss... a lot of
