When Motherhood Breaks You

"Nobody warns you about the washroom.Not the pregnancy books. Not your mother. Not your best friend.Nobody tells you that one day you will be standing at a sink, tap running so nobody hears you, crying in a way you didn't know your body was capable of.Not because anything is wrong.But because loving someone this much has no outlet big enough for it.This book is not a parenting guide.There are no tips here. No routines. No five step plans.This is something else entirely.This is the book about the things mothers feel at midnight. The blank that descends without warning. The Rs.200 in the account and the sleeping child who deserves everything. The husband who puts clothes in the washing machine and somehow saves you. The smile that fixes what nothing else can. The things you will teach your daughter but never the tears behind them.This is the book written from a washroom floor at midnight by a mother who was exhausted and broke and completely in love and didn't know how to say any of it out loud.Until now.If you have ever cried where your child couldn't see you, This was written for you.You are not alone.You are not broken.You are just - completely, devastatingly, beautifully - a mother."