This Sunday we celebrate Mother’s Day-- the 24-hour period when restaurants give every mom first class service or their children serve them breakfast in bed. Mothers do not have it easy these days, and ironically the people who seem to be the toughest on mothers are the moms themselves!

We have a list of things moms really want for Mother's Day!

On the Japanese island of the Gto Archipelago new mothers stay in bed for one month after they deliver. A long postpartum recovery period is treated as normal in this culture. Grandmothers, aunts and other relatives take turns "mothering" both the newborn and mother until she feels comfortable caring for her own newborn. Mothers in the United States do not have that luxury. For most, the first weeks at home with a new baby are the hardest in their lives.

Excerpts taken from the papers of a third grade class.

Motherhood: If it was going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor!

Many new mothers may underestimate the toll giving birth and caring for a baby can take on their health, new research shows. At five weeks postpartum, a majority of new moms were fatigued and had breast discomfort the study found.

Here you will find 12 areas that you may be able to relate to and mull over in determining what is important to you as a mother.