Weathering the Parenting Storms September 2019 Becoming a parent was the most joyful moment of my life.  It's hard to put into words, the love, awe, joy, happiness that I felt in the moments after giving birth. I was also filled with anxiety, trepidation, worry and a kind of sadness that I couldn't explain then, and still find difficult to understand nearly 11 years later. Being a parent is filled in equal measure with wonder, love, admiration, joy and fear, anger, and slight