I’m not talking about the childbirth bit. Both of my childbirths were positive and the first completely painless (epidural), so I can offer plenty of reassurance about that.
Now my kids are 2 and 4, I am constantly aching and bruised to the point where my husband genuinely worries that people will question his character! I do suffer with anaemia, but I can’t be the only one in physical pain!
I am regularly:
- kicked by my children in swimming pools (why do they insist on jumping off your thighs?)
- head butted/ chin butted when a bedtime story becomes just that bit too exciting for the child sat on my lap
- forced to lift my children awkwardly into cots, onto swings, and out from the tangled mound of hair and limbs that results when both of my girls want the same toy
- clambering around on my hands and knees in chase of a toddler who got one leg into their PJs before being distracted by...well, anything is apparently more interesting than putting on her PJs.
Nobody warned me about this! When does it stop?!