First blog post

So here it is…my first ‘blog’ have been getting aggy with the entire thing already after an hour trying to figure out how to save my about page ( simply had to verify my email address, after i moodily asked my boyfriend to help me)

So I’ve decided to do my ‘online diary’ to share my thoughts and experiences throughout my first pregnancy and hopefully continuing as a mum! Social media these days often paints a perfect picture of what we think our lives should be and what the next door neighbours perfect families life is like. Where we should be by a certain point in life, how much money we should be earning, the holidays we should be having and then creating the perfect family. When in reality…. its bullshit. I’ve been guilty of it as i think everyone at some point has, wanting everyone to think you’re handling life and whatever it throws at you like a breeze, when really you’re just as clueless as everyone else and winging it which I’ve done my entire life.

I feel writing down whats on my mind has always helped me have some sort of release. In any emotion, whether its happy, sad, angry…when its wrote down its off my chest. I’ve always been open and honest, sometimes too much so I’m sure my mother would say….. I like the fact I’m like that to be honest, i feel it makes people more open with me and I’m lucky i have some amazing family and friends around me that i can go to and talk to about literally anything and id like to think that feeling is mutual with them. I’m the first one out of my close friends to have a baby… we have no babies in our immediate family either, my sister is also pregnant and due 3 months before me. So I’m going into this pretty blind. Am i scared? yes. Am i excited? yes. Am i apprehensive… most certainly. But I’m gonna do this like i do everything… with an open mind and wanting to give people happiness. especially the little human I have currently growing inside of me.

I guess what i want to achieve from this is not only ranting about some of my emotions and feeling sorry for myself, but also sharing the good parts and being able to relate to other first time mums who are also going into this without too much of a clue to what the hell is happening to our bodies and our lives. i don’t think anything can really prepare me for how my life going to change. I sit there and think ill take it in my stride but I’m also a realist who knows to expect the unexpected.

So here it is… my first blog, ill be giving a bit more background info on myself in the weeks to come, and some very honest accounts of how I’ve so far found pregnancy….

Happy reading..

Lisa xx