Found on the Internet (I totally agree). What is it like to be a mom. We were sitting at the table when my daughter casually mentioned that she and her husband were thinking about "starting a full-fledged family." “We're doing an opinion poll here,” she said jokingly. - What do you think, maybe I should already have a baby? “It will change your life,” I said, trying not to show my emotions in any way. “I know,” she said. - And you can't sleep on weekends, and you can't really go on vacation. But that was not at all what I had in mind. I looked at my daughter, trying to articulate my words more clearly. I wanted her to understand what she would not be taught in any prenatal course. I wanted to tell her that the physical wounds from childbirth will heal very quickly, but motherhood will give her such a bleeding emotional wound that it will never heal. I wanted to warn her that henceforth she will never be able to read the newspaper without an inner question: "...