Charlene White Instagram – “The days, weeks and months after I gave birth to my first child, Alfie, are still a blur,” writes Charlene White. “The memories I have still feel quite painful, almost eight years after he was born.”
“I always knew I wanted to be a mum: I don’t think there was ever a time in my life where I thought I would be anything but. Having helped my dad raise my two younger siblings, I was in some ways prepared for what raising little ones entails and a few friends from school had kids before me, so I had a vague idea of the rollercoaster that is parenting.
“But what I wasn’t prepared for was the sheer exhaustion that runs through every single inch of your body. From your brain through to the ends of your fingertips, and down to the soles of your feet. Exhaustion of a kind that I had never experienced in my whole life.
“I thought I knew tiredness – in my twenties, I practically raved every night and held down a full-time job. But this? It felt like torture.”
⬆️ At the link in @theipaper’s bio, @charlenewhite shares the things she wish she’d have known as a new mum.
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