Motherhood didn't hit me right away. It was exhilarating yet not quite real when I felt the first kicks in my belly...exciting yet hazy during our monthly sonograms and birthing classes. Not even after delivery, as I stared at two tiny bassinets wondering how the heck I was supposed to feed two wailing newborns at the same time, did I truly feel like a MOM.

No, my revelation occurred on a stifling...