When a baby is born, a mother is too.

Mom Shame
Parenting, Post Partum, Mindfulness, Anxiety, Community Bethany Foster Parenting, Post Partum, Mindfulness, Anxiety, Community Bethany Foster

Mom Shame

While I want to acknowledge and validate the experience of feeling Just Not Good Enough, I also want to say that it is not a requirement of motherhood that we harbor a constant sense of inadequacy. It is not essential that we second-guess all of our decisions. We are not failing our kids if we end the day with a hot-and-ready pizza and a juice box and say, You know what, I did my best today, and I’m proud of that.

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Eighteen Summers
Parenting, Aging, Growing Up, Mindfulness, Anxiety, Grief, Secondary Infertility Bethany Foster Parenting, Aging, Growing Up, Mindfulness, Anxiety, Grief, Secondary Infertility Bethany Foster

Eighteen Summers

I saw a Facebook post the other day that really set me off. It wasn’t political. Or a veiled guilt trip at working moms. (The algorithms have definitely figured me out on that front.) It wasn’t even a recipe that made my taste buds leap out of my mouth, only to climb back in when my brain reminded them it doesn’t have the attention span to make it past the 6th step. It was that infamous “You only have eighteen summers with your kid” post.

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