I have been thinking about this for a while.

For me, parenting has been an amazing journey, but it has been darned rough at times, and I have cried a lot and questioned my own self worth more than once.

I am coming to terms with this sense of disappointment that its not the huggies commercial I thought it would be but...I find it hard to know how to respond to those questions "how are you going? Are you loving it?"

Am I loving it? Um..I love DD. And I love DH and I feel I want more babies, but...being a mum sucks sometimes, and I feel kinda crap that this is my reality.

The thing is I am not sure if it actually helps anyone to say this. I have posted elsewhere about the lack of honesty and openness I have found amongst other women, and I am wondering if I need to start prescribing to that code.

Do pregnant women and mummies need to hear about my crap? Does it actually help anyone?

The reason I ask is I am having lunch with a pregnant friend this week, and seeing another colleague who has a similar aged baby (who I haven't met yet), and I am starting to 'prepare' in my mind how to tackle it.

Has anyone else encountered this before? Am I just trying to control their perception of me too much?

WWYD?????