While I was pregnant, my colleague asks me if I would breastfeed and for how long. I was 100% confident I will breastfeed, but I also thought I would only do it max for 2 months and then give it up after that. My colleague then asked me to at least try for 6 months and pump at work. Initially, I thought that was too much work, I couldn’t imagine having the trouble of pumping numerous times at work and all the hassle of breastfeeding. However, when Josiah was born, you can say it was a process of falling in love all over again and just wanting the very best…

Parenting is definitely not just about motherhood, but fatherhood too. I thank God for my husband who has played a huge role in parenting thus far… 1) The father does the morning baths Bathing a new born baby is not easy. Although we had the CL to bath Josiah for one month, after that we had to do it on our own. Well, since Josiah is a boy, I leave my husband to do the bathing as part of a bonding process as well…he’s getting totally pro at it. He bathes Josiah every morning before leaving for work, causing him to be a little late nowadays. Well, he says he…

Certainly there are thousands of things I couldn’t have known until I face motherhood in the face myself, however, there are just some things I thought were impossible to have known through reading online etc. Mostly, I was flabbergasted when when I found these out. 1) Babies store milk in their nipples. I was shocked when my CL showed me, she even squeezed my baby’s nipples and milk squirted out. Later, I found out you should be squeezing them, and they are also caused my hormones from the mother while in the final stages of pregnancy. They eventually will not have it anymore… 2) Breastfed babies don’t poo daily In…