Why being a mum is the best job in the world
1) Experiencing unconditional love
Loving your children is one of the most powerful emotions you will ever feel. Some women love their babies as soon as they see them (and in some cases, even before they are born!) and for others it will take longer, but most women will feel an incredibly powerful feeling of falling in love and the strongest urge to protect their babies in the first few weeks. There aren’t many adult relationships that are built on unconditional love, many are complicated and change as time goes on, but the love you feel for your children has absolutely no limits. Not only will you feel you would die for your children, you also love them no matter what. This feeling is not only amazing, but also overwhelming. New mums often find themselves getting teary in the first few days, largely to do with the hormones running through their systems, but also because they realise their capacity to love another human being! If you are worrying that your heart can only manage this sort of love once – don’t worry, when baby number two (and three and four arrive) you will love them just as much with this same unconditional love reserved especially for your children.
2) Your children will make you smile!
If you are a working mum who has had a hard day in the office, there’s no better medicine than coming home and playing peekaboo with your baby, or dancing around the living room with your toddler. In fact, just having your children’s photo’s on your desk at work, can bring a smile to your face at even the dullest moments at the office! Whatever your situation, whether you are a working or stay-at-home mum, your children’s ability to make you smile is like having free therapy. Even if you are tired, emotional and in need of a lie in, hearing your toddler laugh can lift your spirits in an instant.
3) Your life has a new purpose and your social life is jam-packed
Before you had children you might have felt yourself drifting aimlessly along, possibly in a job you didn’t like! Once children appear on the scene it gives you a whole new sense of purpose. Suddenly, your job is to bring this little person up, to mold them, teach them, protect them and most of all love them – what could be more fulfilling? And if you ever had a boring Saturday before you had children, think again post-baby! Now your Saturdays will be filled with birthday parties, football practise, mum and baby coffee mornings and the occasional (yep sorry, occasional) lie-in. You may not be able to go out in the evenings as much as you did before, but at least you have less hangovers affecting fairy-cake-making with a two-year-old!
4) You can be a kid again!
Being a mum means you have the best excuse to act like a kid again, and the best bit of all – no one cares! You can jumps in puddles, never step on the cracks in the pavement and have fairy tea parties. You can swing really high on the swings in the playground and use your toddler’s scooter in the garden! Why stop at activities? Being a mum means you can get away with just about anything, so if you fancy dressing from head to toe in bright red – do it!
5) You belong to the best club
Forget working for a big organisation, once you become a mum you belong to the best club of all – the mum’s club! The initiation of the mum’s club is getting your baby out, from then on you are welcomed with open arms. When you were pregnant you probably wondered how you’d make friends and if you’d ever be lonely. The advantage of being in the mum’s club is that you can make friends with mums everywhere, it starts in the maternity ward, but you’ll strike up conversation with mums in lots of different places, the doctors, in the park, on the train and while you get your hair cut! The greatest thing of all is that all the members of this club have been through everything you’ve been through; swollen ankles, morning sickness, third degree tears, piles… And as long as you don’t discuss too much outside the mum’s club, pretty much anything goes in the way of conversation. You’ll be surprised at how easy it is to talk about leaky boobs with a mum you’ve only just met! Unlike a job that changes or you move on, once you are a mum, you’re always a mum and therefore always part of the mums club! The point is, be proud! You may not get rewarded for doing a fantastic job, but at least all other mums can recognise what a hard yet rewarding job being a mum is!
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