It has been said that women just have those 'mommy instincts' but I've never understood what that means, exactly. I laugh at this stuff because it conjures up images of women just drop a baby and then, instinctively, know how to take care of their newborns. Like we , as women, have been born with mommy genes and I suppose men have truck genes, carpentry genes,plumbing genes.
What about when you are a single mom? What about when the wonderful daddy doesn't stick around to help you?Worse yet,what about when wonderful daddy cannot be nailed down for any child support?
When you get home with baby is it always a big blessed event? What if it's not? Does this make you, mommy, a bad person if you aren't sure you are caring for baby right? Are you bad if all you want is sleep after nights of being up with crying child? Are you simply awful if you don't feel this huge bond with baby and wonder if you're cut out to be a good mommy?
We may have come a long way, Baby. But society has a lot of catching up to do. Society still hold mommy responsible in oh so many ways.
Well, I was a first mom, single mom, and the first time I was home alone with baby, he cried, I cried and I hated daddy at the same time. You aren't alone. Let's explore the fact,together, that mommy genes are bull shit.
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