22 things you will only understand after you have a baby

It can also be overwhelming…and surprising at times 🙂. Here are some things that you probably did not expect to happen before you had your baby:

1. Giving birth was the easy bit.
2. You will become insanely sensitive to noise.
3. When your baby burps you will be happy.
4. When your baby poops you will be even happier.
5. You actually CAN sing. Nursery rhymes mostly.
6. If someone sick gets close to your baby, you have to use all your strength not to slap him REALLY hard.
7. You will not drink an entire hot cup of tea, for at least three years.
8. No matter how strong your relationship with your spouse is, you will fight. A lot.
9. Waking up at 8am is sleeping in.
10. Eating will not be something you do for fun anymore.
11. When your baby is crying you will give him your expensive phone to play with just to make him happy :-/.
12. You will be THAT mother at the supermarket with a crying baby. The one who you judged only a few months ago for not controlling her child.
13. You will miss your baby on your first outing alone and leave early to be back with him.
14. Breastfeeding is really really really difficuilt and painful.
15. Your baby’s favourite toys will be your keys, the TV control and the phone.
16. Whilst showering you will constantly hear your baby crying, even if he is not.
17. Getting out of the house with your baby will take at least 2 hours.
18. Those who have the strongest opinions about parenting are usually those that do not have children.
19. A moment alone feels like a vacation.
20. You never knew there existed a love so strong and deep like the one you feel for your baby.
21. “Sleep like a baby” is a stupid phrase that was invented by a stupid person who never cared for a baby for more than 30 seconds
22. “Sleep when baby sleeps” was invented by the same stupid  person.

What do you think? Is there something else that surprised you about motherhood? Let us know in the comments below x