Raw Deal
Sometimes I think women get the raw deal when it comes to motherhood. You experience so much - pain of childbirth, you're breasts are swilling up and in pain so that you can nurse, the horrors of breastfeeding and pressure of being the main food provider for your baby in their first six months of life...and through all that haze of emotional turmoil, pain and misery, you are expected to have this "maternal bliss/ zen" and transition into motherhood at the same time? That's an insanely tall order. Like crazy insane. I sometimes envy fathers who still have some semblance of normalcy in their transition. But as with all other things in life, perhaps this is just one of those personal solitary journeys one have to go through.