I was going to lie and say I had a successful pram trip so I deserve one of the these, but, well, then I’d be lying. And I don’t want to be an #Instamum that makes it look easy and perfect and pretty all the time, because for some of us, it’s not. I mean, yeah, we got home in one piece, but not without a #meltdown from the two of us. And on this particular pram trip, it was so bad that not just one stranger, but three, asked me if I needed help. It’s wasn’t that she didn’t like being in the #pram, because this @silvercross_australia pram is the Mercedes of prams. It drives like a dream and I can fit the kitchen sink in it. It wasn’t a wet bum or an empty tummy or cold feet, because I made sure every possible thing was ticked off before we left. On this particular day, it wasn’t any of that. Some days, she just gets upset, and when she gets upset like she does, all red faced and tears and spit going everywhere, I feel it physically in my body. I get hot. I get sweaty. I get nervous. My chest gets tight. And then I cry too. And so that happened, out the front of a coffee shop. I hadn’t quite ordered yet, because getting 800m from home was a win let alone tying up Luna and ordering, sheesh. I’d gone from loving myself sick, swishing my hair and high-fiving myself for showering and leaving the house with my newborn and my dog, to a hot, sweaty, teary mess. As hard as I tried to keep my cool and swallow my tears, they just kept coming back up and streaming down my face. I couldn’t get Floss to calm down, not in the pram, not in the carrier, not in my arms, anywhere. So when a stranger asked if I needed help, I took it. She was a mother too, and she’d clearly ‘been there done that’, and while I felt like a mess, it was perfectly normal for her. She walked Luna and the pram across the road for me, and us girls cried our way over, Floss clinging to me, me clinging to Floss. I sat and fed her, sniffling and sweating in the spring sun, on the side of the road at a bus stop. As Floss nuzzled in and fed herself off to sleep again, I cried it out, and all was well in the world again. Then I ordered and ate four of these. (at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CU2BNuAN8Ii/?utm_medium=tumblr