Acceptance of yourself in your role of motherhood doesn’t come by reaching a certain number of check marks on the made-up script in your head that you made up of what a “good mother” does or doesn’t do.
Tag: take time
One of the ways I describe approaching the immediate post-partum period is to think of it as a “babymoon,” focused on connecting as a family and letting the normal minutiae fall away for a bit. I think maybe I can let myself be in a COVIDmoon for a little longer.