The Need for Good Moms: Why Our Role is So Crucial

I have always wanted to be a mom.

When I found out I was pregnant with Eleanor in July 2021, I was on Cloud 9. It was a beautiful feeling. It was gratitude and excitement and love for Brigham and new baby; it was euphoria. It was heart-pounding joy.

After my first trimester, being pregnant became my new normal. But as this new normal became routine, I started really thinking about the realities facing us as Baby Girl’s due date drew nearer.

“What Will My Future Be, I Wonder.”
– The Sound of Music

I was so excited to be a mom and I was so thankful for my healthy pregnancy. But it began to really hit me how much my life was going to change in March 2022 when Baby Girl made her debut.

How was I supposed to live up to the high standard of motherhood around me? How would I ever pursue my own goals and aspirations after having kids?

If being a mom was all that I had ever wanted, was I now set up to resent the life I had chosen? Would motherhood be fulfilling at all?

And I panicked.

Six quotes about Motherhood to live by

After a lot (and I mean a lot) of tears and confused pregnancy panic attacks, I worked up enough “courage” to take to the internet and do something about how I was feeling.

Millions of women in the history of the world had done this whole motherhood thing, and I knew there had to be at least one woman in all of existence who had felt like I did.

And I was right. Why do you think there so many mom blogs (guilty!) out there? Because being a mom is TOUGH. But it is also SO WONDERFUL.

I was so thrilled to find some answers that wrote about it for my internship in back in 2021.

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As I approached this new chapter in my life, I found myself drawn to quotes about motherhood that gave me hope for the the future.

“The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.”

Jeffrey R. Holland

“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”

Jill Churchill

“No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.”

Ezra Taft Benson

“A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It’s unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle indeed. Such an incredible blessing.”

Jennie Finch

“Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in, it is what God gave you time for.”

Rachel JanKovic

“Motherhood is a choice you make every day to put someone else’s happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you’re not sure what the right thing is, … and to forgive yourself over and over again for doing everything wrong.”

Donna Ball

These six quotes in particular gave me a lot of comfort in a time when I didn’t know what my life would look like after having a baby.

And these quotes still help me on days when I want to lock myself in my room and cry. Each day that I am a mom does not get easier; rather, each day as mom makes me stronger to face the next day. And the next day. And the next day.

Because I would do anything for Eleanor. I would do anything to give her the life she needs. Motherhood is about shaping the lives of our children. Besides fatherhood, nothing else compares to the role of a mother.

Remember this: your role as a mom is so important. You are so important.

Love, Molly
Go Forth. Go North.

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