'So Tired': Everything Cardi B Has Said About Motherhood that New Moms Totally Get

The rapper welcomed daughter Kulture on July 10, and has been learning something new every day since
By Kate Hogan
October 18, 2018 01:15 PM

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ON THE REALITIES OF POSTPARTUM LIFE ...

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"Let me tell you all something, no matter how many books y'all read or advice y'all get you will never be ready for mommy mode," she said in an Instagram story. "I'm so busy, so tired, in like a different world, a different dimension. My eyes are so dark and puffy, like I'm wild pale ..."

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ON ONE OF THE MORE SATISFYING NEW MOM HABITS ... 

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ON 'OMG WHY WON'T SHE SLEEP?!' ...

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ON BABIES IN GENERAL ... 

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ON MAKING EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE STAY SILENT ... 

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ON NOT HAVING A NANNY ... 

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"I just want to learn how to be a mom. I want to enjoy every single second of it since I’m going back to work," she said on an Instagram story.

"My mom has not left my sight, not one time. This is her first grandkid … So this is all new to her again, just as it is new to me," she continued in the video. "My sister has not left my sight at all. She's such a good helping hand, and my dad, he's just running errands for me in New York."

She expanded in another Instagram story. "There's this feeling that, as soon as my baby came out, that I have that is just like … I can't leave my baby at night, not for one second. A lot of people keep telling me, 'You need to find a nanny because you gotta start working soon,' and it's so hard because I want to be with my baby every second. I don't feel like nobody could tend [to] my baby like me."

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ON JUST KNOWING WHAT TO DO ...

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ON THE MAMA TRIBE ... 

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"I respect mothers more than ever now," she said in an Instagram story. "I see moms differently — especially the young ones [who] barely have experience, they barely have money. It's like, 'Wow, I don't know how they could do it.' "

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ON THE OVERWHELMING FEELINGS OF LOVE ... 

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EVEN MORE ... 

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ON A BABY'S DEMANDS ... 

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"I met my match," she shared in an Instagram story. "She is very demanding. I can't believe I have a boss. I really have a boss. When my baby wanna eat, she wanna eat. It's not like, 'Oh, three minutes,' no. 'Gimme the milk now!' You gotta burp her right away — everything, everything, everything. She wants everything."

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ON THE SERIOUS EXHAUSTION ... 

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ON HOW MUCH WORK MATERNITY LEAVE IS ... 

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"This mommy job requires full day, all day, all night attention," she wrote on Instagram.

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ON THE HAPPINESS IN YOUR HEART ... 

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ON PHYSICAL AND MENTAL POSTPARTUM RECOVERY ...

"I didn't [think] that it would take so long for my body to heal," she said in an Instagram story. "I thought six weeks was going to be good enough — no, bro. My ass is broken. This baby broke my ass."

"And my mind is so weird," she continued. "Postpartum s—, it's real. It's really real, y'all."

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ON LOVING THEM DESPITE GETTING FRUSTRATED SOMETIMES ... 

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ON THE REALITIES OF GOING BACK TO WORK POST-BABY ... 

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ON BALANCING WORK AND MOTHERHOOD ...

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"It just really bothers me and it disgusts me because I see a lot of women online like, 'Oh I feel sorry for you, oh your career is over,' " she said in a pre-baby interview with The Breakfast Club. "As a woman, why can't I have both? Why do I gotta choose a career or a baby? Like, why can't I have both? I want both."

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ON WHAT THEY DON'T TELL YOU ABOUT DELIVERY ... 

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“It was totally harder,” she said on Jimmy Kimmel Live in Brooklyn about delivering daughter Kulture Kiari in July. “She broke my vagina. Why nobody tells you about those things? Nobody told me they were gonna stitch my vagina. People just be like, ‘Oh, you know, when you give birth, it’s gonna hurt.’ But nobody tells you [that].”

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ON POSTPARTUM PAIN ...

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“People don’t really talk about what you go through after pregnancy,” she told W. “They don’t tell you that you get stitches down there or that your first two weeks you’re constipated. Or that you get contractions because of breastfeeding. I wasn’t expecting that. When Kulture was born, I felt like I was a kid again; everything was making me cry, and I needed a lot of love.”

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