I knew it! I knew it, I knew it, I knew it! I knew new moms lie. And now there's a survey to prove it.
In this case, at least a third of the more than 11,000 moms who talked to Netmums admitted they will lie about how well their babies are sleeping. It seems they feel so much pressure to put on the face of being a good mom with a wonderful baby, so they fake it.
Now, I'm going to be completely truthful here: I'm glad to hear moms admit they make stuff up. No one wants to feel like they're the only one who isn't having a perfect time being a mom. It's easier knowing moms like about how great it is.
And just in case you aren't sure what I'm talking about, let's look at some of the other lies moms tell (that I don't believe for a second):
1. Of course I shower every day: Yeah, sure you do. If by shower you mean "grabs some extra baby wipes and rubs them over the armpits then applies extra deodorant." It's OK to skip a shower now and then. Heck, I have a 7-year-old, and I am still sometimes just so busy it doesn't happen.
2. My baby never, ever cries, unless he's hungry: Never? Ever? Don't you worry about him?
3. I love absolutely everything about being a mother: Even the projectile vomit and the poop under your fingernails? Because I didn't love them.
4. I didn't have to work out or diet. The baby weight just melted away: Uh huh. And I have magical fairies who live in my dresser drawer and fart rose petals so that everything will smell better.
5. I wash everything the baby throws on the floor before she gets it back because of the germs: Wow. What a way to waste water.
6. My baby has never sat in a soiled diaper for more than a few seconds: Daaaang, you must have some amazing spidey senses. You can sense a wet diaper from your room in a dead sleep in the middle of the night before your baby has even noticed.
What do you hear other moms say that makes you roll your eyes and think, "Yeah, right!"?
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Although I just had a really good laugh, I don't see what the problem would be for a mom to shower everyday, SPECIALLY if you are breastfeeding, man, you can smell, plus it is not good for your boobs to be all damp and humid from the day before..... put the baby in the car seat and place her in the bathroom, if enough space or just outside the bathroom and leave the door open. You can take a quick shower in about 5-10 minutes.
Baby number one allowed me a shower. However with baby number two and three, some weeks I am happy to have showered twice.
I was not blessed to have the weight come right off - in fact on the way out the door of the hospital, I weighed more than when I walked in because my body wouldn't release all the fluids they piled on (I couldn't even wear slippers to leave with DS2 my feet were so swollen). But I know that some women have the ability to drop weight quickly and I am not going to say they lied about it to make myself feel better.
My babies weren't big criers, they saved that for the terrible 2's LOL
And you know with baby number 1, he generally didn't have time to sit in a funk diaper because I was bored out of my gourd. Can't necessarily same for the other kids that came along though I have been known to change a perfectly dry diaper thinking I had the child that had the funk..
I made the mistake of admitting (on this board, actually) that I didn't enjoy some aspects of motherhood, that some days I downright hated some parts of it, and man, oh MAN, did I get trashed!! Holy cow!! People actually told me I should have my son taken away from me, and that I should be committed.
So, no, I didn't/don't lie about being a mom. Take the bad, 'cause that makes the good that much sweeter.
And I never skipped a shower. Showers keep me sane.
With my son, I gained almost 70 lbs, and I'm still trying to lose that weight. With my daughter, I only gained about 15, and I left the hospital weighing less than I did before I got pregnant with her, still +about 35 preDS... so I see both sides of #4. My kids are 16 months apart, and while I don't normally shower every day, unless I need to of course, I do shower every other, and that didn't change much when I had kids. That first week home after my son was born, I was super paranoid, but day 3 alone, I decided to park him in the bouncy seat in the doorway, and showered, peaking out the whole time. It was heavenly... and the first time I'd shaved my own legs in about 3 months (DH had used my electric razor thankfully)
my son is 2 and I'm still lucky if I get a shower every day! I won't lie about that! Also, I have a crazy super metabolism and I gained 42 lbs while pregnant and only kept about 7lbs of it. Which was fine because I was super skinny before and 7lbs was ok lol. and I never lied about my son sleeping through the night, he was always up every 2 hours at first and then it went to every 3 hours. He didn't sleep through the night till he was 9 months old!
pretty sure i never skipped a shower (eww) and i never had poop under my nails. do people really NOT shower everyday? i totally understand not washing your hair everyday if you don't workout or break a sweat all day, but really? people don't wash their bodies everyday? i couldn't do it.
I lost all the weight from my twins before I left the hospital. I had only gained 19 lbs total. And I wasn't working out in the hospital with c-section stitches across my belly, that's for sure :D