You always hear about mom-shaming, BECAUSE of a mother taking care of herself or time out for herself, but I have lived the very opposite and it’s difficult as well.
I didn’t expect to have an out of the ordinary first time parenting experience, but when my daughter was born with a cleft palate, hearing loss, feeding difficulties, severe apnea, required oxygen and later was diagnosed with sensory processing disorder and autism…I felt like what she needed from me in that time in our lives, far outweighed anything I would need or want to do for myself.