u/charm59801

As I wait, and want, I am trying to temper my expectations and excitement. I want it all so badly and I'm deeply jealous of other parents and moms around me. But I do worry I'm romantasizing it all. So then I try to think of all the horror stories I've heard, and remembering the reality of screaming babies, kiddos not listening, all the ways I could be a bad mom. But then I just oscillate into fear. I understand the reality will be somewhere in the middle.

So idk guess I'm just curious if others perspectives and realities. For those graduated, is parenthood as amazing as you imagined? As terrible as you feared?