EARLY YEARS
Business
&Babies Mary Poppins
to Mother Nature
Now more than ever, parents are needing to fit work around their children. Cee Rainey shares how her move into Motherhood prompted her to write a book based on her experiences navigating the challenges of being a parent.
Words: Cee Rainey
I
wrote ‘All the Small Things, Everything I picked up as a Nanny & a New Mummy’ about the struggles of surviving and thriving the first year of parenthood. Motherhood is really lovely and lonely all at the same time. From my days as a professional career nanny, I had the practical things down, and knew what was coming on the physical side of things. But what threw me, once I had my own baby, was the emotional and mental side of Motherhood, especially the havoc hormones play with daily events and mental health.
to feel this way or that sometimes and it shall pass. We all just need a boost from others who have gone before us , even if its to know that it’s not always smooth sailing with your baby. As well as practical tips I touch on taboo subjects of motherhood, like, expectations, judgements and pressures we all feel but don’t talk about. Emotions I too have found myself battling.
I’ve designed my book, so “ Every mum has a story, parents can dip in and dip The book came about of it, to read when they through conversations, and I’m just sharing mine, out need. It’s not meant to be observations, frustrations, hoping someone can learn read chronologically. It’s and jubilations of being more of a conversation than a mother. It occurred to something from it.” a guide or manual. me, ‘ I can help with what others are struggling with, Every mum has a story, and I’m just sharing mine, be it calming and reading a crying baby, as I hoping someone can learn something from it. know what to do. To Post Natal Depression and Anxiety, as I know what thats like! Mums can find me and many other blogs that didn’t make I started to write blogs, while my baby slept. the book on my website, It was my self love time as I enjoy sharing my allthesmallthingsbook.com experience and experiences, hoping that it could or buy the ebook and paperback help out another mum who might be feeling on Amazon worldwide. overwhelmed as I was at times. To reassure them that , they’re doing a good job, it is normal Year Two to follow ….
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