It can be exhausting if you do all the chores, like cooking, laundry, picking up toys, washing the dishes, helping kids, cleaning, etc., at the same time.

You track your baby’s sleep as if it were sacred. Every nap, every wake-up, every restless hour. But when was the last time someone asked how many times you woke up last night? 

The mental load definition is not as complicated as it may seem to be. It’s the unnoticed and continual mental labour of maintaining a household and children. Not the chores, but noticing, planning, remembering, and deciding that come before them.

Many women expect motherhood to be filled only with happiness and love. But after childbirth, many new mothers are surprised by an emotion they never expected—loneliness.

You were busy packing the lunch boxes, dropping the kids at school, answering work messages before 8 AM, and smiling your way through it all. Everything looked fine.