Motherhood, Robinhood

I am writing this with full conscious that following lines are absolutely unnecessary. It is not meant as a personal confession. Neither as a theoretical bla-bla. It is here to fill the empty space on this page and save many souls from free time spent properly.
Some would call it procrastination. Mothers should either hang the laundry or write their dissertation. Possibly both. Better simultaneously.
Before you become a mother, you observe from a save distance Facebook talks of your friends about their kids, fevers, teeth, diapers, swaddling and who knows what. In pregnancy, you read a lot about childcare, and are sure that with all this knowledge you are still not prepared. During the first days after the birth, still in the hospital, you are quite relaxed, have your morning coffee, eat properly and often, shower two times daily, are very self-confident and sure you take care of your baby the best way you can (80 percent of the care is done by the nurses, far, far away from your room).
When you are about to leave the hospital, you unfortunately forget to take all these things with you back home, nurses inclusive. Instead, you take absolutely unrealistic flyer with some after-birth exercises, release letter signed by a doctor you have never met and a feeling that two hundred years passed since arriving at the hospital.
Landed. Your home seems like after returning from a very long vacation. You have to find your place here again.
I wanted to write about how all the negative feelings are normal, how you should not resist any help, how you should be patient with getting some routine back, how normal it is that you don't have time to eat properly, take rest etc. But these words would be redundant, banal, garbage.
So instead I shall say: Many expectations will be fulfilled. Many will not. Be ready to get diverse opinions on what is bothering you. All that is confusing and irritating. You probably will come to two or three conclusions at the end of your postpartum period, namely:
1. Everything that I have read and heard, did not help much.
2. Everything that I have read and heard, was right.
3. Everything that I have read and heard, contradicted each other, and is the very proof of the fact, that nobody really know how it works.

I should really rather work on my dissertation.