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Preparing for motherhoodKaren Plomp, a mother of six, believed she had accomplished all the mommy-to-be prerequisites. Turns out she wasn't as prepared to become a mother as she thought.

"I was totally unprepared for motherhood," says Plomp, a resident or Lebanon, N.H. "I had a vague picture in my mind of how the baby would sleep almost all day, waking up once in a while to eat and to play. Boy, reality was very different from that!"

Nothing is going to prepare you for the emotional highs and lows that are a part of motherhood.

Plomp says that things were much easier with her later children because she had an idea of what to expect, but the first baby was a difficult adjustment.

But can you really prepare for motherhood? The experts say yes – to a certain extent. Nothing is going to prepare you for the emotional highs and lows that are a part of the job description, but you can prepare yourself for the physical demands of motherhood and figure out the logistics of becoming a parent.


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