Being a father for the first time, I realized something that I don't hesitate to explain now: Being a father is not as easy as it seems or how they want to make us believe. The difference between expectations and reality is sometimes so great that there are parents who have a really bad time and that is why whenever I can, in the preparatory talks I give as a nurse, I explain that the most likely change is that they will live It is brutal.
Something like that, but with a lot of humor, is what Lucy Scott wanted to show, an illustrator who was a mother in 2012 and realized that nothing she was living in appeared in the baby manuals. That is why he decided to create a book, entitled "Doodle diary of a new mom" with many of the situations that mothers suffer daily and then, over time, make us laugh.
The cover, which you have below, is already a declaration of intent. Those days when you wonder how the hell others will do it, because every time you give him the food you end up this beautiful and clean. That yes, that is worth it, that with that of letting him eat alone they stain a lot and you have to take it into account, but your energies do not give for much more.
In Babies and more 11 illustrations that reflect the real, beautiful, difficult and funny of breastfeedingCar rides
And who has not enjoyed going by car with his son, bellowing that bellow? They say they fall asleep, but you don't know why yours is not, that what he does is cry, who does not want to be sitting there with those belts so tight, and you no longer know whether to put music, sing, lay your hand back or just cry and try to disconnect the brain so as not to alter driving.
New habilities
Who says that when you are older you don't learn anything anymore? When you are a mother you learn a lot! Suddenly you see that you are able to type with one hand, read through the pages with one hand, eat with one hand, even with the left, and develop a new and impressive ability: take things with your feet.
In Babies and moreMaternity summarized in 23 fun and sincere illustrationsBreastfeeding moment
Did you think that breastfeeding was going to be super nice and that as long as you did you would hear birds and in the sky they would open clear that they would illuminate what art painting? Well, not always, because sometimes you find yourself in situations that you would not want even your worst enemy.
You just read in a magazine that you could gain a few hours of sleep if you give your baby a stuffed animal. "Transitional object", they have said that it is called, and apparently if you give it to the baby it will begin to have affection for him and when he wakes up at night, if he is with him, he will feel good and will not cry so much. Well, that says the theory ... what happens when you give it seems a little different.
In Babies and more17 fun illustrations that show the differences between the first and second childParent Appointment
"Honey, tonight when the child falls asleep we could watch TV together for a while, as we did before," you say. You both agree that this will be the case, and see that you both try, but it is not known by the influence of what strange extraterrestrial force when you are about to touch you, when you are going to articulate the first words, you faint or something and end up like in the picture.
And what about the inconvenient visits? "Hey, we were passing by and we have thought about seeing you", and you with the house upside down, you almost want to tell them "if that comes within a month, maybe by then I will be able to see the floor tiles of my house. "
New image
Some of the changes that motherhood produces are the ones you have up here. "Nothing from the other world," we could say ironically. And then they go to the magazines and they tell you that in one or two months you can be as before, and the famous ones come out that it seems that instead of giving birth to a child they have adopted it.
A true story
And there is always a day, or more than one, when you think you have everything already controlled and it turns out that Poop reaches everywhere. And not only that, it seems that it reproduces ... and the minutes and hours pass and you still smell like poop and you realize that you have stained, you do not know how, and that you have spent hours with that stain there, at which time You do a quick review of the people you have been with, in case they could have detected something.
When the baby finally falls asleep
Finally, although it is not the last one because there are more in the book (it has 128 pages), one that tells the end of the days very well. When the child falls asleep, the remaining hours are for you, to do what you want. Although if you end up like the one in the photo it seems that the day is ending at the same time for the mother and the baby.
