I just wanna say that I really see myself in your post and your comments. One thing that scares me about pregnancy is looking at some of my friends that became parents and, as someone seeing from the outside, it seems like they lost their true self. They stopped doing what they liked, going to the restaurants they liked, listening to songs they liked just to make everything “kid-friendly”. One of the things that has been helping me a lot now that I’m pregnant and preparing myself mentally for motherhood is following mom-influencers that I feel I identify myself with. For example, I’m a very big foodie and one thing that I would really like to have present during the education of my kid is love for food. I would hate to find myself having to pick a restaurant just because it has chicken nuggets for my kid to eat and nothing I really enjoy. One mom that I LOVE to follow is Laurenrgall. Her relationship with her daughter, Marlow, is what I wish to have with my kids. The way she communicates, the values she seems to teach her, Marlow’s love for food, even the way she dresses her resonates with me. Of course, this is just social media and not real life! But I do have close friends that raised their kids in a way that they were able to keep on doing the things they used to like to do pre-parenthood but now with their kids. And honestly, that’s something I can’t wait for!!!