I had my baby on March 1st and since then I feel like I’ve been slowly fluctuating from feeling like I could do it all to I am insanely overwhelmed. My husband has went from being horrible at helping me with the baby in the beginning since the hospital to now being such a perfect new dad who does things better than me. I’m grateful that he has turned around but now I find myself constantly feeling like maybe I’m not as good as a parent like him.

I try and I try with the baby and everyone praises him and his ability to calm him down and be a natural dad. Whereas I just look like I am struggling to them.

I had a csection so I’m always limited in what I can do at times and husband always chimes in to grab baby from me when he thinks I’m in pain but honestly the more he does it the more I feel inadequate as a new mother.

I feel like I don’t have this down, like I’m missing the secret baby code that he figured out. Tonight was a low point for me and it’s kind of silly but I just broke down crying from being overwhelmed because I couldn’t calm baby down and the second my husband got him he calmed down.

For some reason I thought when I gave birth I would instantly turn into this super mom that got everything instantly and the baby would be calm with me but I now feel guilty for not even being able to be half the parent that my husband already managed to be.

As everyone around us continues to praise him I can’t help but feel like I’ll never be good mom. I feel like I’m the only one who cried being overwhelmed with my baby, who just didn’t naturally fit the mom picture right off birth.....I