“It takes a village to raise a baby”
I cannot beleive how true this saying is and how much we have fucked it up in these modern countries (maybe not all families but I feel like it is most!). I pretty much bring up my baby alone at home and it’s fucking hard work. I have come abroad to my husbands family home for a 3 week holiday and fuck me the difference here. It was a hard transition of different beliefs of what to do and what not to do etc but once I got used to it they have been amazing. All the neighbours come over to help out, we go to theirs, they take baby if they are fussing for a walk round their house. It’s just insanely different. My baby has never been happier (and kept busy) and I’m no where near as stressed. I’m dreading the reality of going back home now :(
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It takes a village yet you’re expected to go back to work at 9 months pp to manage a career, baby, the household .. and the mental load😵💫. Take me back to before women could work & you could live off a man’s income alone… sorry suffragettes.
Certainly noticed that (in my experience) most people are only interested when they’re tiny tiny & everyone obsesses over the baby (which is perfectly fine) rather than giving the mum support. I think nurture the mum not the baby is the phrase 😵💫
so true… unpopular controversial opinion but us women fucked it up for ourselves with all this right to vote shit😆 I could be chilling at home with my family living comfortably with just my husbands wage. 😆😆
Evidently yet to make life & the household truly equal for (what appears to be) most women.
😆 have you watched Ali Wongs hard knock wife?
I have not! I’ve just seen that it’s on Netflix, I shall watch!
I'm cursing us women for fighting women's rights 🤣 I want to stay home and raise my baby not sending her off to daycare for someone else to raise her, these first years are so important, so many milestones and developments, we could possibly miss our baby's taking first steps whilst at work and it hurts my heart, I'm so old fashioned and would love to be in the 50's my man working and me looking after the children and the home, if we could do that now and survive it would be wonderful
If Alice hasn't walked before she's off to nursery I'm going to ask them to not tell me if she takes her first steps / words there! Going to pretend that she's only doing that for me 😭🙃 true denial!
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