Louise Cooney is loving being a mam.
She welcomed baby Jude six months ago and since then her life has changed for the better.
We caught up with Louise in our May issue alongside her dotey baby, Jude.
She tells us that her son is her “sole focus” at the minute and her priorities have just completely changed since welcoming him.
“I think the stuff that was important to me before, doesn’t feel quite as big anymore. Jude is my sole focus now,” she explained.
“It’s all about making sure he’s ok and everything else has to take a back seat. There’s some self care aspects I’ve had to let go of.”
She is quick to add that it’s not a negative thing, she just doesn’t “have as much time for myself as I was used to having and I’m okay
with that because I know it’s all for him”.
“My time will come again. I’ve become really good with time managing, and managing different things at once.”
Obviously, her life has changed with becoming a mother. But has she as a person changed?
“I’m trying to be kinder to myself since having him. I’d have always been someone who was hard on myself and I’d speak quite negatively to myself, but now I catch myself because I don’t want him to speak to himself like that when he’s older so why would I do the same to me?” she explains.
“It could be something small, berating myself over why the house is messy or why I’m not getting enough work done. It’s narratives that we all have in our heads, but right now, all I need to truly focus on is him, making sure he’s okay, getting everything he needs because he’s growing and changing so much.”
Pick up our May issue of VIP Magazine to read our full interview with Louise Cooney
