She definitely gets it 🤦🏼‍♀️ #skits #momlife #newmom

[maggieedelfelt]

It's a constant state of contradictions. You miss them but you need a break. You want them to thrive and grow up, but grieve the stages that are gone...

[SandraGrauschopf]

This is why it's so hard to talk about being a parent to people who aren't. When you talk about the hard parts, it sounds like something no one should ever want to do. And it's really really hard to describe how fantastic it is at the same time.

[eglev]

I love that the friend in this skit doesn't get weirded out, doesn't feel confused, she just happily embraces the weirdness and contradictions cause why not.

[becky]

It always make me think of that scene in one of the Harry Potter movies where they’re reading tea leaves and Ron is like “you’re going to suffer, but you’ll be happy about it?” 😂

[a.person]

Coming back from the hospital, colors were different. Every time I hold my baby, it’s like I’m reunited with a phantom limb.

[nanabanana]

my mother in law took my son for his first walk alone without me so i could shower and eat and i just cried for 30 minutes because i wanted my son back😅

[aerialcrowley]

Basically you NEED break but you don't WANT one. I think it also has something to do with knowing you are their safest place. And especially in those first months it's extremely important for mom and baby to be physically connected.

[NootalieWalf]

Moms are freakin hardcore dude… mega props

[chrissyy]

This so perfectly depicts my bestie with her youngest son, lol. She was floating on a cloud for almost the first full year and we were all like, “aren’t you tired?” She’d always say something like, “no! Not at all. I actually got around 3hrs of sleep last night so it was a great night! I just couldn’t put him down, you know? He’s all smiles and he just- ugh!” lol.

[Dogbeachmem]

True and also ok if it’s not true. Some people don’t get that feeling and it’s absolutely normal to not be instantly in love with your baby when they are born. I was so glad that someone told me this beforehand. So sharing for those of you don’t get the “seeing things in color” thing.
And it also doesn’t mean you have depression (although you could). But it just could be that we are all different. And different pregnancies are different, etc. And if your love builds through experience, that’s ok too.

[lulumoon]

Never had children, but these shorts help me understand better than anything else has, THANKS SHAWNA! 👍🙏🕊️

[jenergy]

My baby is 19 and I miss her constantly. I remember holding her so close my little newborn pumpkin loaf 😢

[rocks-a-lot]

When my first son was a couple weeks old, my parents intercepted. My dad gently grabbed my baby, told me to brush my hair and get dressed. He said "you haven't stopped staring at that kid for 2 weeks, grandma will hold him, we're going to go play a couple of games of pool! You need to get out for a minute" haha he's Great Grandpa now and is the best 🥰

[Noir_is_my_name]

I felt that too. I didn't know what true unconditional love meant until my daughter was born. I knew my life was forever changed. I would freak when anyone touched her. Not becuase I was afraid but because my body was like WHERE IS MY BABY!!

[Vaggie]

It's so strange, my kid is a toddler now, but it feels like just yesterday I held her for the first time, I wish she was still as little as she was when she was a newborn, but I love her more and more every single day that I see her grow.

[annabuckner]

I am not a parent - I always imagined parenthood as a lot of stressors/bad things with the occasional highlight, but never envisioned it as being all kind of mixed together into one hugely intense emotional experience. So interesting!

[D-Dollie]

Yes, yes and yes!! This was me 😅. He’s three now and just started nursery. I miss him but I enjoyed sitting at a coffee shop reading a book.

[jasminsch.]

Omg i know how this feels ❤❤❤

Shawna, maybe you could do a skit about the love, that sometimes overcomes a mother, when she just watches her child (3 -4y/o), this feeling of pure Love, that you sometimes have - whenever i have that, I think ppl just have to see how much i love my little girl. I am all smiley, dreamy, little weepy maybe...and I just need to absolutely hug her and give her a small kiss on the head or upper arms or wherever I can reach her without disturbing her in her doings in this moment... am I the only one that gets like that? 😅

[sdc-grrb]

I can't describe the wave of pure love that washes over me when i hold my new grandson. Its just crazy.

[BCJadeite]

We just told our neighbor that we are and he gave us some great advice

He said as mom I'm going to be the center of that babies world, but one moment i won't be, and it will be really hard for me. So a reminder for me in the beginning to allow my hubby all the moments I'm not needed to bond, but then for my hubby to give me grace when I micromanage or get defensive once he moves on to bonding with my husband more.
And it was just nice to get advice that isnt the generic "sleep while u can" lol