Every time I speak to a new parent I feel frustrated because they tell me all the hard things not the nice things about parent hood- does anyone feel the same?

I’ve spoken to a few new parents over the past couple of months.

When I saw new- they all have toddlers now (2-3 year olds)

I love to say stuff about how excited I am and they’ll shut it down with these exact things I’ve heard.

“I’m just being honest it’s going to be so hard, you’re going to be so, so tired you don’t understand until you go through it”

“You and your husband will never have time to do things you love anymore”

“I didn’t feel connected straight away and the first couple of weeks felt regret”

“I had post natal depression straight away and I had really bad thoughts”

Now, I don’t expect people to sugar coat parent hood. I’m also not expecting people not to vent!

But this isn’t a conversation about them venting. This is always me saying how excited I am and then they come up with this stuff.

I know parenthood will be hard, I don’t think anyone expects it to be easy?

If you want to say something bad, also say something good.

Because now it’s starting to feel my mind with scary thoughts and doubt. With things like- “Am I going to enjoy it”

Feel free to share the beautiful things in motherhood/ parent hood too:

Etc..

Sorry just having a vent.

If anyone wants to share their happy moments here I’d love to read them.

Edit: Thank you to everyone who has commented, your words have made me feel much better and are so enjoyable to read.

I may not be able to reply to all of you but I’m appreciative of every single one of your comments and I’m reading all of them!

Thank you 🙏