{"id":1394,"date":"2013-07-18T08:45:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T14:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/2013\/07\/18\/rhood-is-not-glamorous\/"},"modified":"2013-07-18T08:45:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T14:45:23","slug":"rhood-is-not-glamorous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/rhood-is-not-glamorous\/","title":{"rendered":"Motherhood is Not Glamorous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Hello, Dearest\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While watching a TV special on the impending royal birth, I was amused when a bookie spoke about the odds of Duchess Kate having a vaginal delivery versus a caesarean section.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s too posh to push,\u201d claimed the man. <em>Too posh to push?<\/em> That was a new one for me. I don\u2019t know if this man is a father but he clearly has the wrong idea about parenthood. Coming from someone who has had a c-section, let me tell you, there is nothing posh about it. In fact, I have yet to experience <em>anything<\/em> glamorous about being a mom.<\/p>\n<p>The hours are long \u2026 <em>really<\/em> long as evidenced by the dark circles under my eyes. Even when you get back to your pre-pregnancy weight {<em>if<\/em> you get back to your pre-pregnancy weight}, nothing pre-pregnancy seems to fit right. My stomach looks like it\u2019s been used as a scratching post for a wild tiger, not to mention my <em>not-so-very-posh<\/em> c-section scar. And daily showers are a luxury of the past \u2013 even with the constant barrage of spit-up, drool and messy diapers I come in contact with.<\/p>\n<p>But I didn\u2019t sign on to become a mom to up my glamour rating {and I highly doubt Duchess Kate thought her severe morning sickness was oh-so-posh}. Being a mom is about opening up your heart and your life to another person. It\u2019s about loving a little one <em>so much<\/em> that the thought of them not being in your life steals the air from your lungs.<\/p>\n<p>When I look at my daughter\u2019s face {even in the wee morning hours through tired eyes}, I know there is nothing I\u2019d rather do and be than her mother. Her laugh is music to my heart. Her tiny baby toes bring joy to my soul. Being a mother has expanded me \u2013 both literally and figuratively \u2013 and changed me for the better.<\/p>\n<p>And so, I mother on \u2013 amidst spit-up stains and shirts that don\u2019t fit quite right. Glamour? Not a high priority. <em>But it would be nice to take a shower.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"center\">\u201cThe days are long, but the years are short.\u201d<br \/>\nGretchen Rubin<\/p>\n<p class=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mops.org\/hello-darling-bloggers\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more about Rachel and the rest of the<em>Hello, Darling<\/em>bloggers now.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Dearest\u2026 While watching a TV special on the impending royal birth, I was amused when a bookie spoke about the odds of Duchess Kate having a vaginal delivery versus a caesarean section. \u201cShe\u2019s too posh to push,\u201d claimed the man. Too posh to push? That was a new one for me. I don\u2019t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":12118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[30,33,35,122],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellness","tag-beauty","tag-identity","tag-perfection","tag-rachel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}