Total different experience. Did just about everything including being the main bread winner for most of my thirty years of imprisonment. Was a home dad for years. And at times working two jobs or extremely long hours still did all the washing, shopping and most of the other household tasks. Putting up with constant unsolicited advice (nagging). Did all this for my kids as much of the time they would not have had a parent if it was not for me. So I am a little annoyed with the poor working mother cartoons.

SOO true, LOL!

Except in my case. I treated my kids more like an animal or indigenous mother-I put them in snugglies on my back and rode off on my Arabian horse as usual.

I took them everywhere..camping, biking..just put them in backpacks and snugglies.

I nursed them for two years (by the eighth month the nursing was sporadic and every couple of days), which made my figure rapidly return to normal and kept me slender.

When they were babies I chewed their organic food for them from my plate (animal and indigenous mothers do this, as the saliva partially digests the food for the babies and gives them protective stomach bacteria). My kids slept through the night, never fussed, and were never sick
Ever.

I used disposable snuggly diapers. I bought their baby clothes at high end yard sales and made the rest.

I really didn't care much about the apartment or cleaning, etc. - just did it when I felt like it. Luckily, I often did.