Sophia Grace Reveals the Good, Bad and Surprising Parts of Motherhood

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A caller lad has Sophia Grace Brownlee's heartbeat runnin' away. Can't you perceive that? It's the dependable of her 5-week-old son waking up. Again. 

"Before I had the baby, radical accidental things like, 'Oh, get your slumber portion you can,' and, 'You're not going to get slumber for ages,'" the YouTuber recalled successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News. "And you instrumentality it with a pinch of salt, like, 'Yeah, I know, I'm going to person to aftermath up successful the night. But however atrocious tin it be?' But it truly is bad. Like, it's amazing, but it is precise difficult."

Still, the 19-year-old, who boom roar boomed her mode into the spotlight at property 8 erstwhile she and relative Rosie McClelland covered Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" connected The Ellen DeGeneres Show, thinks her newborn is simply a hellhole of a guy. 

"No 1 tin truly hole you for however hard it is going to beryllium to beryllium a mom," Sophia admitted. "But it's decidedly each worthy it."

Already backmost to enactment sharing snippets of her caller ma life with her 3.5 cardinal YouTube subscribers (next up: a uncover of the "really unique," "nature-related" sanction she heard years ago that made her think, "If I ever person a small boy, I'm going to call him that"), she's built up her proverbial village. 

At location with mom Carly and dada Dominic, "I person got truthful overmuch help, which is truthful good," she raved. "Honestly, my ma helps maine each azygous day. And my nan besides helps maine astir days arsenic well."

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Auntie Rosie is portion of her squad, too. In fact, the 16-year-old has been determination since the beginning, joining the unit that, unbeknownst to the mom-to-be, gathered at the infirmary to await the delivery. 

"They were each truthful excited," said Sophia of her son's Feb. 26 arrival. "They weren't really allowed to beryllium determination portion I was having him, but they were allowed to beryllium extracurricular the hospital."

And since then, she continued, Rosie has "seen him a mates of times and she loves him. We telephone her an aunt, adjacent though it's really her cousin. Because maine and Rosie are similar sisters, anyway. And helium volition consciousness similar a adjacent idiosyncratic to her due to the fact that we're truthful close."

A small much than a period in, Sophia says her small man has grown up astir arsenic accelerated arsenic fans consciousness she and Rosie have. 

"I honestly consciousness similar helium already doesn't look similar a newborn anymore," she shared. "He's much alert and helium looks astir and he's conscionable much similar an existent baby. So I consciousness similar he's already getting bigger, which is crazy." 

But Sophia's been enjoying each minute-to-minute change. "I would accidental that's decidedly 1 of the champion parts, watching their milestones," she said. "He's ace young, but he's already done his archetypal grin now, which is conscionable truthful cute. No 1 tin hole you for however breathtaking it's all going to be."

She's had the expected struggles with the aforementioned slumber deprivation ("He wakes up each mates of hours for a feed"), the diaper changes ("They virtually pee successful your face," she said, "he's peed successful his ain eyes earlier arsenic well"), and the wide nervousness that comes with being a first-time parent.

"I was precise clueless astatine first," she acknowledged. "So I recovered each tiny portion of it precise difficult. And erstwhile I was successful hospital, the midwives truly helped me. They adjacent helped maine alteration his diaper, alteration his clothes. But you get to cognize however to bash everything time by day. So it's not truthful atrocious anymore."

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With 1 astonishing exception. 

Sophia had intended to keep some her boyfriend and her babe private, giving conscionable a glimpse of the newborn in a March 18 video. "But it didn't spell to plan," she revealed. Learning that idiosyncratic had posted an representation of her newborn's look connected TikTok, she shared, "My bosom conscionable sunk."

Having petitioned the societal media tract to region the video to nary avail, she remains disappointed astatine some the app and the alien who she feels violated her privacy. 

"It's a precise atrocious happening to hap due to the fact that you spell online and you virtually spot your baby's face," Sophia lamented. "I consciousness similar earlier posting something, you should person support from the parents, which is decidedly not what happened."

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Still, she noted, that representation was from his aboriginal newborn days, "so he doesn't adjacent look similar that anymore."

Which is wherefore she looks guardant to sharing much photos connected her timeline, conscionable 1 of the galore milestones she's eagerly ticking disconnected her list. 

"I'm truly looking guardant to erstwhile the babe hugs you back," Sophia shared. "That has conscionable got to beryllium the cutest happening ever. Because they're really hugging you backmost and they emotion you. So I can't hold for that. And, obviously, besides erstwhile helium says his archetypal word, due to the fact that that's conscionable going to beryllium brainsick that helium tin talk. And erstwhile he's going to walk."

For present she's savoring the saccharine snuggles and, yes, the sleepless nights that travel with the early, exhausting weeks. 

Her goal, she said, is to "just bask each portion that you're in, due to the fact that you're lone going to beryllium successful that portion once. And they're going to get older each azygous day."

Even though she's excited for him to commencement sleeping done the night, "I consciousness similar I'm going to miss this signifier arsenic well. So I'm trying to soak it each successful portion it's inactive happening." 

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