From Rock And Roll To Rocking The Cradle: Yummy Mummy's Erica Ehm

Motherhood is the toughest job in the world because it’s non-stop and totally out of your control.

You make supper, your kids spit it out and say, “I don’t like this.” After supper you have to clean up the mess, and by the way, there’s also the laundry that’s been piling up. Don’t forget to make them a lunch or to help them with their homework too. If they do badly at their exams, then of course you’re a bad mother.

You just never achieve your goals.

Before Babies

Before I had babies, I had no idea what I was in for. I had been a career woman most of my life, and I’d never really had the full responsibility of caring for a helpless, little baby.

Add to that the incredible toll the pregnancy and delivery had on my body – sleep deprivation and sense of complete lack of control – and I was in shock after I gave birth.

I think the transformation from pre-baby to post-baby is the biggest transformation a woman will go through in her life - even bigger than puberty. You have the same hormonal insanity, but you’re older, so you’ve gotten used to being a certain person for 20, 30 or 40 years and suddenly your life turns completely upside down.

I noticed that while I was floundering in motherhood, other mothers were as well. Everybody was just too ashamed to say anything. I started to confess to women in the park or in the supermarket, and they would start confessing their motherly sins as well.

I Told You So

You cannot imagine what it’s like to be a mother until you become one. I make a point of telling every pregnant woman that I meet what they’re in for.