It’s the most challenging job known to woman – but it can also bring positive changes to your life. So, when you have a pang of longing for your old, pre-baby self, take a look at our checklist to reassure yourself…
By Fiona Gibson
You have your own mini personal trainer
You might think you have no time for a fitness routine.
You’re hyper-efficient at work
Remember those long, tiresome days when you’d still be at work two hours after everyone else had gone home?
It’s a chance to spring-clean your friendship circle
While new friendships blossom when you have a young child, you’re also aware that time’s at a
You’re an expert multi-tasker…
…Not to mention more adaptable and better at planning ahead. These are attributes which benefit all areas of your
Your child can bring you closer to your partner
Raising a family creates enormous pressures - and it’s hard to feel amorous when you’re clearing up a trashed h
Nothing is more special than baby’s first steps…
…Or any of those developmental milestones
You become closer to your mum
Having a child of your own often changes your relationship with your own
Parenting is ever-changing
It may be a tiring, and even repetitive sometimes - but, on the plus side, no two days are the same when you’re a mum.
You rediscover your inner child
Remember the games you loved, and the picture books you knew by heart?
Your child loves you to bits
She not be able to tell you yet, but right from birth she’ll instinctively turn towards you.
