Nobody tells you that becoming a mom feels like starting a job you weren’t trained for — while sleep-deprived, hormonal, and emotionally responsible for a whole human. They don’t tell you what it feels like when love doesn’t arrive on schedule. Or how shame creeps in when bonding feels harder than expected. You can love your child deeply and still feel overwhelmed. You can be grateful and grieving at the same time. And if motherhood cracked open grief you thought you alrea