I love my children and I love being able to
spend time with them but sometimes being
a mum can be lonely and isolating.
When I was pregnant with my 2nd baby I
found that I was very emotional and had
times where I was quite low. It felt like no
one truly understood what I was going
through. I am sure that they did but at
the time, loaded with hormones and with
a very busy toddler, I couldn’t see that. I
just wanted someone to tell me that they
knew what it was like and felt exactly the
same or if not exactly the same they could
empathise with what I was going through. I
wanted to find someone like me that I could
talk to or that would understand.
Someone to say “it will be ok.”
And so the seed of The Mother Hood was
planted!
When you have your first baby there is a
lot of support – your midwife, plunket, your
coffee group and all manner of family and
friends who offer to help. But second time
around (and I imagine third and forth time)
is completely different. You are expected
to just get on with it and you do know so
much more but it amazing how much you
forget (or maybe blank out)!
So as the juggle of being a mum of two
began. I had this little bud of an idea in the
back of my mind wondering how I could
reach out to other mums and help them
and how they could in turn help me.
I was following other groups online and
watching the support and encouragement
that women were giving too each other.
Asking and answering each others
questions, encouraging each other and
building up online communities.
Here I was stuck at home trying to
remember when was the right time to give
my baby a piece of toast and that is when
it hit me!
Jane Frazerhurst is a woman with many hats.She is one of the faces
behind the Collective Marketplace (proudly sponsored by Creative
Junction), a recently certified Sleep Consultant and mother-unsuperior to
the thousands of women who flock to her blog site ‘The Motherhood’ for
advice from their peers. Here she discusses how the Motherhood came
about.