You are not alone!

 How many of you out there are completely alone? I don’t have parents who live close to help, I have one friend I trust with my son, and the father isn’t involved. I just want everyone to know you can feel free to vent and express your feelings! Every mom needs to talk things out because otherwise you’ll just have a breakdown and get depressed. At times it’s overwhelming but it is one of the most rewarding experiences. Just think we will have the most amazing bond with our child. I know what it’s like to wish you had someone to get up in the middle of the night, or someone to wake up with the baby so you can get a little more sleep since you got up so many times at night. I know what it’s like to barely eat or find time to take care of yourself because you’re so busy taking care of your child. You would think it gets easier as they get older... NOPE! They just become mobile and nap less and they become miserable gremlins when they teeth! A man will never understand the strength a single mom has. We not only carried our child for 10 months, delivered the baby, we now get no sleep and function every day taking care of someone else all by ourselves. Not to mention we clean the house a million times and it still manages to get messy! We never have time for ourselves. It’s not always fair that we change our lives and deadbeats are out doing whatever they want, but our child will realize the way things are as they get older. My concern is if I stay dating my boyfriend (we started dating when I was pregnant) my son will think he’s daddy. Graig has only seen his father a few times and thats because his parents forced him to be at their house when I took Graig to visit. Never has he on his own asked to see his son. For Christmas he didn’t even buy his son anything, his mom bought everything and put his name on it. Pathetic. I am a strong believer that there is a difference between a father and a dad. Everyone has a biological father but it takes a special man to be a dad. I would love for my son to have a good role model like my boyfriend to look up too. I never want my son to be like his father. I just dread having to explain everything later on. I need advice from you guys! Help me out here! I know the time hasn’t come but soon he will be saying “dada” and I don’t know who he’ll be calling dada and I don’t know if I’m supposed to correct him until later on.