This was a beautiful memoir. The authors vulnerability and frankness are exactly what new mothers need to hear in order to not feel so alone in their journey. Motherhood is the most transformative experience a female can go through. Too often moms do not talk about the struggles in fear that they will seem like a “bad mom”. This book helps so much with that stigma. I will be buying copies for all my mom friends!

This was so incredibly validating and relatable without being overdone and came across as honest and raw rather than narcissistic.

This will be something I recommend to moms especially struggling in postpartum!

The narrator unfortunately sounded a bit robotic. I do speed it up to 1.5-2 but don’t usually feel this way

3.5 stars rounded down
I feel mixed about this one because there were some good and useful parts to it and some parts that seemed bad. I really enjoyed the first half. It felt a lot like memoir and less about momming issues. Thank you to the author for being so vulnerable and sharing her personal experiences.
Overall the big message is everyone is doing the best they can and stop judging other moms. Stop judging yourself too. Kids are kids and when they act like kids that’s ok. It’s important to give ourselves grace. There’s also a great section about boundaries. It’s important to put your family and your kids needs first and you shouldn’t feel guilty about it. Definitely valuable information! The author makes a point that everyone is someone’s child so after becoming a parent, you’re more compassionate towards others and extend more grace even with other adults.

The worst parts about this were about her husband. When she’s totally overwhelmed and needs a little break she just pushes through and does everything anyway. In the book, her husband is not supportive at all. (I believe that isn’t as much the case in real life after reading her acknowledgements). But she has to beg him for 10 minutes in the morning to get a shower by herself-when he finally agrees, he can’t handle breakfast with the kids and all the hot water has already been used-so she can’t even get her 10 minutes. He considers things he does as “helping”-this is triggering to me.. any man who thinks he’s helping his wife with his own kids. And when she is completely sick with strep and 102 temp, he’s too busy at work to show much care. And he can’t take a sick day from work because he needs to save those for when he is sick. She powers through when she feels horrible because “that’s what moms do.” This is a terrible message for moms. When you’re sick, get support when you can and demand more of a partnership. She’s constantly left with a pile of dishes and loads of laundry and cleaning always it’s overwhelming and the message that we need to just do it because we’d “do anything for our kids” is not healthy. Of course we would do anything for our kids. That doesn’t mean you should have to just power through and do everything yourself instead of getting the support you need and deserve.


The audio was great, loved the narrator and I would listen to more of her work.
Thanks so much to NetGalley for the advanced copy of this book! I don’t know if I could recommend this unless there’s a mom who is confident enough to take the good with the bad and know the difference.