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24.01.2022 Sometimes it looks like I know what I am doing. Brigid here Guess how my early motherhood looked?... Awkward and Double guessing ALL the time. Stressed, anxious, angry SOME of the time. Instinctively getting it? crickets I picked up some things fast. I can proudly say my babies all could sleep for Australia. But trying to parent a baby, make sure everyone still had clean clothes, maintain a house, a connection with my husband, some friendships - as well as be a mama who remembered how to smile... ....whilst trying to figure out WHO THE HELL I WAS NOW... Not so much. Honestly, I ‘strongly disliked’ my early days of motherhood. One of our biggest motivations for the GrowMyBaby program is to help a whole generation of women to come into motherhood READY. And this really bloody excites us. https://www.growmybaby.com.au/the-program The place this BEING READY starts is in pregnancy. Layering knowledge each month of pregnancy, feeling supported, growing from overwhelm into calm. What a way to springboard into motherhood. I think how we leave mamas to figure it out alone means that as a society we assume mothering is instinct. IF your ‘feeling in your gut’ is more gas than answers, please know that you will learn bit by bit until the overlay of instinct kicks in. For some this will be months for others longer. I’d say for me I became an instinctual parent about 2.5 years in to mothering. A whole heap of learning in between and adoption of terms like ‘acceptance’ and ‘surrender’. I am still on a learning curve. I think I always will be. But I’m pretty proud of the mother I have finally become. That took me forever to write that sentence. I may have cried. But there it is. Tell me did you think you ‘becoming mama’ would be like this?

16.01.2022 For those who are processing a traumatic birth hope is often a very thin flame. Brigid here My first birth impacted me in ways that I didn’t recognise for years.... The ebb and flow of grief I carried into my motherhood always lapped at the joy of moments. It took until my third birth for me to carry hope into motherhood. We want to show you that there are steps to take to fan that thin flame of hope ...that the pain won’t always be the same. To pick you up and place you down at a place where you are READY to consider having another baby... ...ready for your next birth ...ready to trust again ...ready to put your hand up for help. What did it take for me? Knowledge (and not the Google kind). Practical medical help. Self-love. Examination of beliefs. Recognition of my deep biases. Acceptance. Surrender. Brigid Version 2.0 We are warriors us women. Mama... are you here now? Wondering if you are ready? #Tellsomeonewhocares @PANDAnational sourced from canva

06.01.2022 What have you found today that has been really bloody hard? We get it - relentless nausea, pelvic pain, feeling unsupported so many things. Even though this baby you are growing is the very thing you have hope and dreamed about. There are moments when it is hard. ... Pregnancy (in general...), the two week wait, childbirth, feeling overwhelmed, coping with who you are now. A baby that Just. Won’t. Stop. Crying. All of this is REALLY difficult. Is there some spark you could search for that can let that first crack of light in? The first glint of joy? Even the act of searching for that glint helps. Tell us, what have you been doing today that has been your joy?

03.01.2022 What's your biggest tip? My biggest tips are to break your prenatal tablet in half or try a different brand?