Mum Shares Hilarious Account Of What She Wishes She’d Known Before Parenthood
The blogger is a mum to two adorable twin boys, Luca and Leo. [Photo: Instagram/Millie Di Maio]
We all get told the basics before we enter parenthood, but not everything gets covered. Such as the delightful fact that babies have more than one neck roll, which, as mum blogger Millie Di Maio shared on her blog Two No More, can get smell suspiciously like cottage cheese if it isn’t cleaned.
And it’s not the only brutally (yet hilariously) honest parenting “truth” she’s happy to discuss. At length.
No, Di Maio, who has identical twin boys, has a whole lot to share about life with young kids. And boy, does she say it like it is.
“Supply and demand is the backbone of market economics… and breastfeeding,” the mum, who lives in Australia, wrote in a recent post. “If you pump 300ml of milk with an electric breast pump every 3 hours, chances are your supply won’t meet babies’ demand. The consequence? Dolly Parton boobs and raging mastitis.”
Di Maio uses her blog to share parenting advice and life at her motherhood mishaps - something that we should probably all do more. [Photo: Instagram/Millie Di Maio]
She also shares pics of her adorable tots on her Instagram account. [Photo: Instagram/Millie Di Maio]
It’s become something of a hit because it’s so frank, serving up an honesty that a lot of parents find refreshing - and easy to relate to.
Another gem that Di Maio was never told that she shared with her readers was about sleep: The issue that parents probably discuss, plan and mull over the most.
“NEVER claim that your baby now sleeps through the night. Guaranteed they won’t the next night,” she wrote. “And even if your miracle child does sleep through from 2 weeks old… please spare the rest of us who were up 6 times last night. It does make us want to poke our eyes out with a fork.”
Life with twins isn’t all fun and games, as Di Maio explains. [Photo: Instagram/Millie Di Maio]
Anything else?
“Your baby is smarter than you. They know when they’re full or ready for a nap. The real question is do you? Approaching my tiny, screaming humans with this attitude helped me realise my role wasn’t to know what was wrong, but do my best to figure it out. And if they cried for a bit, it was just their way of telling me to hurry up. Now I know how my husband has felt for all these years,” she added.
We reckon we could be seeing the next Constance Hall in action here. And that can only be a good thing. More frankness on parenting topics is exactly what we need. Don’t you agree?
