Nicole Ampi

Blindsided by Motherhood Nicole Ampi

After five years of motherhood, and with a four-month old baby boy, Nicole Ampi still felt moments of pure uncertainty and surprise. A confident mother of 3, she found herself stumped by many new mom scenarios, overwhelmed by the daily tasks of parenting, and up the crazy creek of sleep deprivation. Now a mother of 5, Nicole shares some good, mostly bad, and all her ugly attempts at training her kids to eat, sleep and poop as expected. Having a special needs child, Nicole also provides insight into behavior, illness, and feeding struggles beyond the typical realms of parenting and gives valuable tools for supporting kids needing extra. In this ultra-real account of motherhood at it's messiest, Nicole shares all the little things that seem too small to talk about, but that add up to a whole lot! With her humorous potty fouls, totally relatable discipline disasters, and play-by-play toddler tantrums (okay, and hers too!), Blindsided by Motherhood serves as a valuable resource for new moms and moms-to-be. It provides the nitty and often gritty details of early infant care, breastfeeding, postpartum depression, sleep, and all things newborn, baby and toddler. Included in the pages of Blindsided by Motherhood and following each chapter, is a notes section. Life's precious moments are often lost to memory, and for this reason space has been added for referencing feelings, thoughts and specific mommy memoirs for mothers to write their good, bad and ugly moments of parenting. The hope is that their own stories can be passed down to their children and their children's children, and so on. The adventures of motherhood are priceless, and are worth noting. Blindsided by Motherhood offers an uncensored glimpse of Nicole's motherhood moments, seen through the eyes of a veteran, in an informative, fun and interesting story of her early motherhood journey. Her story will fill the void of useful motherhood and parenting tips, and is sure to entertain and arm the reader with options.