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[quote=Anonymous]Man, I remember when I was a new mom for the first time, didn't know what I was doing, didn't seem to have any natural instinct for it, and sort of couldn't believe they were letting us take this helpless creature home from the hospital without someone else who knew what they were doing coming along. Then I had trouble breastfeeding, and that was hard emotionally because you can feel like you don't even deserve to be a mother if you can't even make enough or the right kind of milk to sustain your child. And you're not really sleeping.

I am sure that I have read other prime advising new moms to ask for help with food and housework whenever there is a visitor, and even to set limits on who comes and how long they stay. I guess you ladies don't do it (I didn't either, but then again nobody visited me without an explicit invite so it wasn't a problem), but it's not exactly unheard of these days.  I don't think this email is that crazy given the advice I have read on other fora. Maybe you ladies think it is rude, but I wonder if you might be a little out of touch.

Finally, when I read this email I am mostly thinking that being a new mom can be hard, and we should all be generous to one another, and not catty bitches who spread venom behind the scenes like the pretty-on-the-outside-but-ugly-on-the-inside-and-dead-behind-the-eyes soulless husks that we watch on TV now. JMHO. [/quote]

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