Like PZ said the small negatives are GREATLY outweighed by the positives. The downsides for me are definitely never feeling like you have time to yourself, these days i am lucky if i can pee by myself but mostly DD is in there with me talking to me, getting into the toilet paper! the never being able to do what you want to do thing does sometimes bother me but before my DD i never did anything and now if we want to go out to dinner we take her and make it a family thing. I don't like going to the movies so we watch them at home.

There is nothing like the feeling of seeing your baby for the first time, being the ONLY person your baby wants when they fall over and hurt themselves, when they are sick and just want cuddles all day or the first time they say "mumma". After a stressful day of nothing but tantys when they smile at you when you put them to bed just makes it all worthwhile.