Of Motherhood by Ruby Yeh

Resilience

yehceramics — 2024-01-05 01:56:20 UTC

Mum gave birth unexpectedly in a foreign land alone to my little brother the third day she arrived in Australia, my brother was 2 months premature.

2024-01-05 05:07:01 UTC

I want to be a mum but I don’t think I’m ready

2024-01-05 05:51:14 UTC

Just because I don’t have children doesn’t mean I didn’t want kids

2024-01-05 06:04:23 UTC

Motherhood is both joy and guilt. Selfless and often selfish.

While I’m saddened by my 98 year old mother’s struggles as she ages, I’m privileged to witness her life with all her frailties alongside all her strengths. She’s remarkable!

2024-01-05 06:44:56 UTC

幸運的我是被您用愛泡大的孩子，感謝您❤️

2024-01-05 07:08:28 UTC

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In awe of the way my body is changing to create your home, little one. Can't wait to meet you

2024-01-05 08:17:54 UTC

mama. i know you don’t mean to hurt. still, i promise to make sure you do know that you are loved.

2024-01-05 08:25:09 UTC

through you, my little one, beauty and fear, the joy and the worry, the peace and the turmoil have been magnified - as only a great love can do.

It is okay to ask for help

2024-01-05 08:38:57 UTC

You cannot pour from an empty cup; self care is not selfish, it is essential.

2024-01-05 08:40:28 UTC

2024-01-05 09:01:09 UTC

Merged with the memories of my mother, the lines become blurred; she lives in me as much as I exist in her. There is no distinction, just a continuous flow of being.

2024-01-05 09:25:07 UTC

my grandmother raised me. her aunties raised her. my friends helped me raise my daughter. in many ways, for many reasons, motherhood does not always come from mothers.

Mum

2024-01-05 10:24:13 UTC

Thank you for your sacrifice, that I now understand as I grow old with you.

2024-01-05 10:44:58 UTC

I miss you Mum. I hope and pray that I too, can be a Mum one day. That day will be bittersweet as I will be wishing you were by my side to guide and support me on my journey through motherhood. I know you will be watching over us from afar with your angel wings. I love you Mum.

Mum

2024-01-05 14:54:54 UTC

The woman with an invisible cape. The selfless sacrifices you continue to make. This wellspring of love, nurturing and acceptance.

2024-01-05 15:21:48 UTC

Thank you.

2024-01-06 00:45:41 UTC

Life has various flavours, including bitterness and spicyness, but also sweetness; human nature is diverse, and besides evil, there is more goodness. On the road of life, it is impossible for everything to go smoothly and everyone to be satisfied. Life is a process of convincing oneself. May your heart and mine both be born toward the sun!🌞

I think of you often. It's my birthday today and if you were here today, you would have made me a red hard-boiled egg. I'm sorry I didn't make an effort to understand you and now it's too late.

2024-01-06 01:09:26 UTC

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

2024-01-06 01:41:36 UTC

2024-01-06 02:49:33 UTC

I don’t like being a mother. It’s a terrible job and I think I shock other women when I recommend not having any kids. Being a Dad looks like an awesome job though. Thanks patriarchy.

2024-01-06 04:14:34 UTC

I was reborn the day my baby boy was born. He gave me life, as much as I gave him life. I am so incredibly grateful.

2024-01-06 04:22:06 UTC

I have doubted many things in my life, but never my mother’s love. She is the epitome of it, unconditionally. I can feel her warmth in my heart and running through my veins whenever I think of her. I am so lucky to be her daughter.

2024-01-06 04:24:17 UTC

To my friends who are mothers; I wish you could see yourselves the way I see you. You would never doubt yourselves again.

2024-01-06 05:44:42 UTC

You make the everyday extraordinary.

2024-01-06 06:26:37 UTC

Although I absolutely adore children, I do wonder why I never had that primal urge to have children of my own. Maybe it’s a fear of my own childhood trauma repeating, but I still can’t help to feel I missed something inherent in being born a woman.

Unconditional x

2024-01-06 08:37:39 UTC

yehceramics — 2024-01-07 02:05:25 UTC

I didn't have the best time growing up and I am afraid to be a mum and pass down my trauma to the next generation. It would be unfair, right?

2024-01-07 03:23:54 UTC

I will spend my lifetime trying to put these feelings into words. The immense love and vulnerability of it all. I didn’t need completing when you joined our family, but now the thought of ever losing you would be the greatest loss. How would I cope? I was afraid of this feeling. I love you so much.

2024-01-07 03:25:18 UTC

Mum, I’m sorry. I wish you had the mother you have been for us. I love you.

2024-01-07 08:16:39 UTC

Motherhood to me means boundless forgiveness and deep love forever. I always knew my mother and mother in law loved me till they passed at 95 and 97. Forever greatful and I can only hope I’ve imparted this endless love on my 4 children as I too race towards my mother’s later years

2024-01-08 10:34:36 UTC

While I love my son, I don’t enjoy being a mother. The physical and mental toll on your body is incredible. There are times where you really question your sanity. Long gone are the days when I was independent- I rely on others so much. It really takes a village to raise a child! Saying that, when baby smiles, everything somehow feels ok.

With every new baby , a new mother is born. All different kinds.. The happy, the sad, the fearful, the weak , the strong ...etc . It takes time , patience , effort ,experience , sacrifice and dedication to raise a child in this world.

2024-01-10 23:17:50 UTC

I would like to appreciate all the mothers especially my mother and my mother in law for being patient throughout the whole process of raising us as kids. Mothers hold the key in bringing up good citizens of the world. After all they go through , they choose to appreciate and protect life ❤️

Mothers deserve the ultimate form of respect everyday and in every form possible . Nothing better than a smile on my mother's face 😇

2024-01-16 05:38:27 UTC

母愛如花，溫馨芬芳

母愛如海，寬廣無私

浩瀚綿延，縷縷不絕。

Anticipation

2024-01-17 06:34:08 UTC

When I first began writing an entry for this, I titled it ‘Longing vs Fear’, and began by writing something along the lines of, “There is nothing I want more in life right now than to find out that I’m pregnant with my partner’s child.”

But I got distracted and did not complete and submit my entry. Then a few days later I found out I’m pregnant.

Initially, I thought my happiness was rooted i. having a child with the person I love. Then I learned of the fragility and impermanence of romantic love. I think the road ahead will be one of discovering a profound, lasting, and life-altering love for my child, quite apart from my romantic love for their father; and learning how to re-parent and heal myself while parenting my child and giving them a wonderful life, in parallel.

2024-02-14 06:53:59 UTC

I’m already missing my Mum

The Gift

2024-02-14 19:33:14 UTC

As I got older and my time I had to spend with you, Mum become less, I always thought how incredible selfless you were and how much you gave to me and how I took you for granted. Every day you cared, gave yourself and put yourself last. Yes, I bought your beautiful things on birthdays and Mothersday, Christmas etc and loved you with all my heart but I readily accepted everything you gave of yourself without a thought of whether you may be tired from your busy day or rarely returning your generosity.

Until.... I had my first child, that is when it dawned on me. The gift of being a Mum who cares and nurtures is not done with a value placed upon it nor an expectation of the same in return. Its done with pure love and the love in return is the greatest gift amongst it all. Thank you my beautiful Mum for teaching me to be the Mum who I am today, for that is a gift from you to me that I will hand on to my children to pass on to their babies too.

2024-02-15 12:42:34 UTC

i always wanted to be a mother. i think. now i am beyond child baring years i wonder if i did, or imagined i did…. i know i have mourned not becoming a mother, tears at the most random of moments and for many years now. infertility isn’t just about not being able to carry and birth, it can be about not having a partner, for me a man, or the right partner at the right time, and knowing that it was not something i wanted to do solo. i have had love and i have have had a great love in my life but children weren’t part of it for reasons that society doesn’t acknowledge or see, and sometimes it is just luck and timing. i never got the chance to become a mother and the pressure of the words ‘you’ll never know real love until you become a parent’ has broken my heart so many times. it is cruel to say this to women. love comes in so many forms. it even comes in the grief of not being a mother. no one truly knows anyone else’s life’s path of what love is in their heart of hearts and the glory and the sadness there in. i am a mother somehow without ever being one. as i am a woman of this world and i have felt my life body bleed knowing it was at least possible.

媽媽是一份全職工作

2024-02-17 13:09:57 UTC

沒有加薪沒有升職全年無休全心為你

一生一輩子只為一家子

2024-02-17 13:13:14 UTC

伟大的母亲为了孕育孩子身材变得走样都是因为无私的爱

2024-05-11 12:54:43 UTC

I’m reflecting today on the raw depth of the love I feel for the person I created. It is a wordless love that is buried in my bone marrow, in my cells, pervading in every aspect of my mind, providing context for all I experience… I feel like it must be unfathomable for those who have not fully opened themselves to parenting’s enormity - not in a “you can’t know” kind of way but in a true sense of awe for how much it shocked me, and continues to feel unfathomable yet real to me. I remember thinking, on my way to the hospital, that it was the last day of life as I had always known it and in the next day my life and I would be forever changed. I would be a mother. I don’t think I could ever have imagined how deeply I would feel it from that moment forward. I would run into flames and burn to save this person. I would give up anything for her. I would literally give her my life, if I needed to, as I gave her her life… it is a love that is way beyond anything about her except that she is my child.

2024-05-11 12:55:37 UTC

when i think of what i am grateful for, my mother’s emotional labor comes first. she worked so hard to raise herself in order to raise me, and even though i won’t be able to have children, i think they would grow to be beautiful people because of all the love mum taught me with.

2024-05-12 00:49:50 UTC

In 3 generations life as a woman and mother has changed - an early settler cooking for the working men, caring for the whole family (cooking on a wooden stove, washing with a board, cloth nappies, buying food for at least a month), not speaking too much when in mixed company and no birth control to a female property owner who had to perform at 100%+ to be recognised yet still do the girlie stuff after spending days in the saddle working the business to a much more relaxed pressure (except by my own expectations ) as a single full time working mother while dealing with Family Court matters for 10 years and dealing with discrimination in the workplace and now to my own daughter who has the luxury of having time off (some paid) to care for her children after achieving high accolades at a high pressure job. My love for all 4 individuals for pushing the boundaries so the next generation can benefit - physically and emotionally - in this constantly changing world. Who had the best life? All of us - with the love of our family anything is possible if we want it!!!

Mother

2024-05-12 06:25:24 UTC

I didn’t become a mother. The timing wasn’t right; not the right partner at the right time; no opportunity at the time to be a mother on my own. But as a young child I always imagined I’d be a mum and have a daughter with curly blond hair like mine! I’d imagined I’d see her clothes and tell her how to lead a good life. Instead I’ve been a godmother to several boys. I’ve been an aunt - a fun, cool and loving one I hope. Now I’m also a stepmum to some beautiful young adult women.

2024-05-16 13:10:32 UTC

Nem sempre sabemos como ser mãe, mas com cada dia que passa ao lado da minha filha, continuo aprendendo, não só ser uma mãe melhor do que ontem, mas uma pessoa melhor no mundo. Esse amor, tão profundo, ao lado das falhas em ser um ser humano, continua me ensinando humildade, compaixão e força pra enfrentar tudo, só pra ver a minha filha sorrir.

Written with wonder

2024-05-24 12:15:43 UTC

I have a daughter, who I have only seen once in eighteen years and she now has a daughter too, meet her once.... My daughter's mother seems to have brought her up well...

2024-08-15 20:25:22 UTC

Now you are in our home and I continue to be in awe. I love watching your chest rise and fall, your eyes lock with mine and your grin lights up my heart.

婚后离乡在新的国家生活。曾经的光环停留在自己国土。选择婚姻，从新开始。感恩有一个疼爱自己的老公。家庭主妇生活就从此开始……多年的内容只有小孩和琐事上。慢慢自己也找不到自己。

2024-10-10 12:02:41 UTC

10年半婚姻，经历了健康问题。产后忧郁症，脊椎跑位，压到坐骨神经，一年时间没办法平躺睡觉。医生严重警告。不是考虑怀二宝，而是顾好自己。因为还没40岁，就有机会躺床一辈子的危机。

隔了5年多，决定要怀老二。没想到，严重孕吐。整个孕期都在吐血。躺床5个月。真的体会到，电影情节上的画面。日子很难熬……时常在崩溃中……因为吐到感觉身体不是自己，又想保护肚里的孩子……只能和时间在拼命

终于熬到宝宝要出生了。感恩小孩一切健康。自己面临和死神会一面。经历大血崩，被20几个医生抢救回来。宝宝出生几个月，我又再次面临车祸。

只能说…………大难不死，必有后福🙏感恩

所以我决定，不在适宜圈，决定再次成长。

没人支持我决定。因为没人理解，为何要那么辛苦？小孩才几个月。要从新开始学习。

短短的2年8个月时间，熬过，苦过，终于看到不一样的自己。

妈妈角色不好当。因为妈妈这个角色做久了，会把自己忽略。会不懂得疼爱自己。认为自己是个超人。

妈妈角色我没放弃，只是选择和小孩再一次一起成长。过程中，关注自己，在繁忙的家务和甜蜜的亲子时光之外，挤出时间来追求我的职业梦想

我知道路上会有挑战，但那又怎样？因为每一步的成长，都会让我更加坚强，也会让我的孩子学会坚持和努力

我在这条创业的道路上，可能会跌倒，但我绝不会放弃，我要用我的故事，告诉所有的妈妈们：

我们不只是某人的母亲，我们是独立的个体，我们有权利追求自己的幸福和成功，我们可以给予孩子最好的爱，同时也不忘了爱自己

所以，让我们一起，为自己的梦想加油，为我们的生活喝彩

遊子吟（孟郊）

yehceramics — 2024-10-30 12:27:45 UTC

慈母手中線，遊子身上衣；臨行密密縫，意恐遲遲歸。誰言寸草心，報得三春暉。

女媧

yehceramics — 2024-10-30 12:32:16 UTC

俗說，天地開闢，未有人民，女媧摶黃土作人，劇務，力不暇供，乃引絙於泥中，舉以為人。

My journey

2026-03-24 08:18:35 UTC

Motherhood is love and exhaustion tangled together, hands and tears, fierce protection and quiet loss of self, laughter echoing through chaos, guilt that lingers, pride that swells, and a heart stretched beyond limits, breaking and healing in the same breath.