Alanis Morissette: 'I was unprepared for motherhood'

Alanis Morissette has confessed that she was unprepared for motherhood.

The 'Ironic' singer and partner Mario 'Souleye' Treadway welcomed son Ever Imre Morissette-Treadway in December 2010, just months after announcing her "surprise" pregnancy.

Writing in a blog post for iVillage, Morissette revealed that she did not expect to deal with postpartum depression and found herself in a "blank state" over her newfound responsibilities.

"No one told me about postpartum. And when they did, their shared recollections were semi-hazy and greatest hits-esque. They made the after-the-baby-is-born era sound somewhat idyllic, if they remembered it at all," she wrote.

"So, as I was wont to do, I put their stories together, composite-style, into a fantasy that included bursting into blissful tears, buoyed by clouds and surrounded by cherub angels gushing how the lil' one's lips were his father's and his deep contemplative gaze mine. Cue record scratching sound."

However, Morissette went on to insist that she quickly adjusted to her new life post-pregnancy and immediately jumped to task on taking care of her new son.

"I quickly came to see that life, hormones and the stunning wrecking ball that is a new family member don't really wait for mum to wrap her head around much before they serve the new mind-boggling circumstance up," she explained.

"Biological and spiritual imperatives have their way of bowling over first, and asking questions later, if they ever circle back to ask 'em at all. There were no kid gloves here, pardon the pun. I had to buck up."

Morissette added: "Something greater than me had to take over. My go-to survival strategy of headiness combined with tomboyish charm and physicality was not going to serve me in this new postpartum terrain, because, well, these qualities had been kidnapped by my hormones.

"I was in the perineum-pain'd and hormonally swampy trenches with an instant family, a blank slate. No handbook. No helmet. Seemingly no mercy."

Morissette previously described motherhood as a "golden healing bomb" and said that having a child opened her world.