Being a new mom is hard.

There, I said it. Now once we get past that everyone-knows-it-but-sometimes-won’t-admit-it statement, we can acknowledge that being a new mom is also joyful, wonderful, enlightening, and pretty dang awesome! Becoming a mother has simultaneously been the most exciting yet most daunting thing I have ever done in my entire life. It hasn’t come without blunder, anxiety, and fear; or any shortness of laughter and happiness for that matter.

When you are thrown into an entirely new world that centers around your very own tiny person, there is a lot to learn very quickly and that can become overwhelming at times, especially in today’s day and age where everyone loves to give unsolicited advice on any topic regarding children. Everyone has a different opinion on what is best for children; let me say right now, you do you, honey! I’m here to hopefully give some hope to a struggling mama that is completely sleep deprived, and at her wit’s end with a colicky, exhausted, hungry, newborn baby.

Breastfeeding didn’t work for me and that’s okay.

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