Surprises in parenthood
Aug 16, 2010 | under Parenting Tips | Comments 5
After the arrival of a baby in a family, we go through lots of changes physically, emotionally and mentally and babies are the only important entities that are to be treated with due care and importance. As much as babies bring in loads of joys and excitement, they bring along equal amount of tears and challenges that shatters your life. You will forget your daily chores and the things that were urgently supposed to be done, your life seems to become more complicated even if there are no complications. Parenthood is something that you cannot ignore and you surely cannot escape the excitement too. Here are some of the parenthood surprising changes in your life:
- The relationships change – many parents experience relationship constraints after having a baby. Partners cannot give time to each other physically and emotionally and as a results spouses feel neglected and frustration. The research states that the satisfaction of having in a relationship drops by 66 percent in couples. People find a need to reconnect even when they have so many things to share.
Time just flies by – Babies will occupy your whole day and even nights, even if you had planned some outing there may be issues relating to baby that could not allow you to move out of the house. Couples are said to run out of time even when they are with their babies for whole day.- Change in looks – parenthood would obviously strain your physical muscles and you will be drained out of energy at the end of the day so it is going to show some weak marks on your face.
- Change in life – being in a parenthood brings lots of changes like suddenly you see people appreciating you, smiling at your. Your boss checks if everything is okay with your baby. You will be more secured to be in a relationship.
- Mental strength – Babies make you do lots of body exercises from changing their nappies, playing with them, run to bathroom to clean them, etc. but along with lot of these physical exercises. You tend to mentally become strong and sound.
- Mistakes happen – your whole mind, body and soul are after your baby to give them the best feeling of goodness and satisfaction in the food, play and entertainment. In all of these, your mind is already diverted so you are bound to make mistakes.
- There are changes in the friendship, you might not be going as often out with your friends as you used to go earlier. You are more prone to become friends with other same age moms and most of the time you discuss babies.
- Parenting brings in lots of responsibilities, suddenly you may see yourself tied up with all the baby commitments and no time for personal things. This might get you frustrated and for time being you might hate parenting.
- You might see sudden changes in your emotional and mental behavior, your whole life revolves round your baby. You just want to do everything and anything possible to make your baby happy and feel comfortable.
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I went through the same phases two years back,when i had my first baby. This blog may scare you, but it is an eye opener. Life is all about adjustments but if done for the right reason, it will become way of life.And your adorable baby will make you fall in love the new life..so all new-bees out there be patient and enjoy the new role..
The article is exhaustive and does cover all the challenges that a baby comes along with…but then there are lot more good parts as well that the child comes along with..well the key to make sure most of the part is good is that you plan your baby well and make sure both your partner and you are ready for one..
Ohh!! the article is missing out on one important point the money part..well yes it comes in picture here as well..i agree with both previous post, patience and planning is the way to go..and as far as finance is concerned you should at least have future planned in a way that both baby and your basics can be taken care of..specially if you are a single mother…
@jane: so true one should have a well planned future..after all you don’t wanna miss out on baby shopping…one more reason to shop ehhh???
Parenthood is one of the most shocking and stunning phase for the first time baby holders. This phase offers different stages and new themes of lives that can make the lives more dynamic and dashing. These are some of the tips that can work like precaution providing measures for the parents and they can keep their selves ready for the unseen situations of lives. Enjoy parenthood and pull out the best of the lives.