My fascination with blogs at the moment is providing me with some interesting insights and is also eating away at any spare time the I have. I love the way that you can discover new morsels of information that you may not otherwise stumble across, or catch intensely personal insights about individuals out there in the digital realm.
Anyway i guess i should get to the point of my entry, a few weeks ago my work held a conference called the "The Human Centred Design Revolution Workshop", Jesse James Garret was one of the key speakers of the event his wife Rebecca Blood who is one of the fist femail bloggers in the world was also speaking at a conference a few days later. I stumbled upon her blog earlier today and found an interesting entry about 'The Motherhood Study', being a mother of two I was quickly drawn to click on the link and find out more. Although it is US centric study, the commonalities between how mothers feel about motherhood is pretty much the same I suppose with most Western societies and possibly even the entire world. One of the points that i found quite beautiful was the overwhelming love that mothers feel towards their children. It cannot be described or even imagined by anyone who hasn't had a child. The other point that was conforting to read was that we also learn a lot from our children. Its not just a one way learning channel.
I have learnt so much from my little ones, even in only three years of being a mother. My Pablo hadn't even turned three months when I had already learnt to prioritise my life in a totally different way. I have an enormous responsiblity to protect and nurture this human being that i have created and although it is an enormous challenge, i have never been overwhelmed by it. Instead it fuels me has made me love life in a way that i had never realised was possible. I should probably also make a note that its not just mothers who feel like this, its also dads, perhaps not all, but I know that my beautiful husband feels the same way. We are both intoxicated by the love and the overwhelming happiness that our little boy and girl bring into our lives. The study is also available for download- http://www.motherhoodproject.org/study/executive_summary.php
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