The Amazon #1 Bestseller and Los Angeles Book Festival 2017 Honoree Feel like you are the only one not loving every minute of new motherhood? You are not alone! Maybe you've heard this from other parents: "Treasure these years, they go by so fast.""You'll miss these precious times.""I would give anything to go back and be where you are." When you're so groggy from sleeplessness, so frustrated by the challenges of soothing a baby, so isolated from your pre-baby life, so frightened by the immensity of this new responsibility for a helpless life.... how does it help to hear that these are the best days of your life? Answer: It does not. Through the difficult days of three consecutive babies, Chelle Landers wished for candid talk about the challenges of new motherhood. She wished everyone wasn't guarding the image of post partum bliss. She wanted it to be safe to say, "This is painful," without it sounding like a rejection of her babies. As time finally passed and she found some light and peace again, she wanted to reach out to other moms, to console them in the way she would have loved to be consoled. To tell them that from pregnancy and infant care, to the postpartum marriage, to mommy groups and siblings, having a baby is lonely, humbling, exhausting, terrifying... and worth it.