01of 20ON THE REALITIES OF POSTPARTUM LIFE …Cardi B/Instagram"Let me tell you all something, no matter how many books y’all read or advice y’all get you will never be ready for mommy mode," she said in an Instagram story. “I’m so busy, so tired, in like a different world, a different dimension. My eyes are so dark and puffy, like I’m wild pale …”
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“Let me tell you all something, no matter how many books y’all read or advice y’all get you will never be ready for mommy mode,” she said in an Instagram story. “I’m so busy, so tired, in like a different world, a different dimension. My eyes are so dark and puffy, like I’m wild pale …”
02of 20ON ONE OF THE MORE SATISFYING NEW MOM HABITS …Cardi B/Twitter
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ON ONE OF THE MORE SATISFYING NEW MOM HABITS …
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03of 20ON ‘OMG WHY WON’T SHE SLEEP?!’ …Cardi B/Instagram
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04of 20ON BABIES IN GENERAL …Cardi B/Twitter
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05of 20ON MAKING EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE STAY SILENT …Cardi B/Twitter
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ON NOT HAVING A NANNY …
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“I just want to learn how to be a mom. I want to enjoy every single second of it since I’m going back to work,” she said on an Instagram story.
“My mom has not left my sight, not one time. This is her first grandkid … So this is all new to her again, just as it is new to me,” she continued in the video. “My sister has not left my sight at all. She’s such a good helping hand, and my dad, he’s just running errands for me in New York.”
07of 20ON JUST KNOWING WHAT TO DO …Cardi B/Twitter
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08of 20ON THE MAMA TRIBE …Offset/Instagram"I respect mothers more than ever now," she said in an Instagram story. “I see moms differently — especially the young ones [who] barely have experience, they barely have money. It’s like, ‘Wow, I don’t know how they could do it.’ "
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ON THE MAMA TRIBE …
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“I respect mothers more than ever now,” she said in an Instagram story. “I see moms differently — especially the young ones [who] barely have experience, they barely have money. It’s like, ‘Wow, I don’t know how they could do it.’ "
09of 20ON THE OVERWHELMING FEELINGS OF LOVE …Cardi B/Twitter
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ON THE OVERWHELMING FEELINGS OF LOVE …
10of 20EVEN MORE …Cardi B/Twitter
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EVEN MORE …
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ON A BABY’S DEMANDS …
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12of 20ON THE SERIOUS EXHAUSTION …Cardi B/Twitter
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13of 20ON HOW MUCH WORK MATERNITY LEAVE IS …Cardi B/Instagram"This mommy job requires full day, all day, all night attention,” she wrote on Instagram.
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“This mommy job requires full day, all day, all night attention,” she wrote on Instagram.
14of 20ON THE HAPPINESS IN YOUR HEART …Cardi B/Twitter
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“And my mind is so weird,” she continued. “Postpartum s—, it’s real. It’s really real, y’all.”
16of 20ON LOVING THEM DESPITE GETTING FRUSTRATED SOMETIMES …Cardi B/Twitter
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17of 20ON THE REALITIES OF GOING BACK TO WORK POST-BABY …Cardi B/Twitter
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ON BALANCING WORK AND MOTHERHOOD …
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19of 20ON WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU ABOUT DELIVERY …Jimmy Kimmel Live/Youtube“It was totally harder,” she said onJimmy KimmelLivein Brooklyn about deliveringdaughter Kulture Kiariin July. “She broke my vagina. Why nobody tells you about those things? Nobody told me they were gonna stitch my vagina. People just be like, ‘Oh, you know, when you give birth, it’s gonna hurt.’ But nobody tells you [that].”
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“It was totally harder,” she said onJimmy KimmelLivein Brooklyn about deliveringdaughter Kulture Kiariin July. “She broke my vagina. Why nobody tells you about those things? Nobody told me they were gonna stitch my vagina. People just be like, ‘Oh, you know, when you give birth, it’s gonna hurt.’ But nobody tells you [that].”
20of 20ON POSTPARTUM PAIN …BACKGRID“People don’t really talk about what you go through after pregnancy,”she toldW. “They don’t tell you that you get stitches down there or that your first two weeks you’re constipated. Or that you get contractions because of breastfeeding. I wasn’t expecting that. When Kulture was born, I felt like I was a kid again; everything was making me cry, and I needed a lot of love.”
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“People don’t really talk about what you go through after pregnancy,”she toldW. “They don’t tell you that you get stitches down there or that your first two weeks you’re constipated. Or that you get contractions because of breastfeeding. I wasn’t expecting that. When Kulture was born, I felt like I was a kid again; everything was making me cry, and I needed a lot of love.”
source: people.com
