Edita Aradinovic on First Night Home: I Didn't Sleep a Wink

Edita Aradinovic posted a candid message on her Instagram on July 27 about her first night at home with her newborn daughter Zoja, whom she recently brought back from the maternity ward. The singer did not mince words as she described what it feels like to wake up in a mother’s role for the first time.

“I didn’t sleep a wink,” Edita wrote, describing a night of feeding, getting up and tending to the baby. Instead of the polished picture of perfect motherhood, she chose to show what few public figures share: exhaustion, the physical toll of childbirth, and moments when emotions take over.

What does a new mother’s first night look like?

Edita spoke plainly about what she is going through. She also mentioned the postpartum blues, a condition still discussed only quietly in Serbia, even though many women live through it in the first days after giving birth. Perhaps without meaning to, she opened a topic that weighs heavily on many new mothers yet is rarely spoken about out loud.

Her honesty quickly struck a chord. Messages of support piled up under her posts, and many women recognised their own experience in her words. Rather than filtered photographs, the singer offered an authentic moment, one in which the glamour of the stage gives way to the reality of a sleepless night.

There were no spotlights waiting for her at home, only her closest family. Her mother and sister were there from the first moment, and her sister posted the first photo with little Zoja on her own profile, marking the arrival of a new family member. The warm family welcome was, as the posts made clear, exactly what mattered most to Edita in those days.

What is Edita’s relationship with the child’s father like?

Although she is not in a romantic relationship with the child’s father, Nenad Stevic, Edita has stressed more than once that they are on excellent terms. She described the decision to become a mother as a conscious and considered one, even though she and the father do not share parenthood as a couple.

For a singer who built her career on stage, this is an entirely new role, one that cannot be rehearsed and is not measured in applause. The first nights, first fears and first joys arrive unannounced, and Edita chose not to hide them. In a world where motherhood is so often shown as flawless, her honesty feels like a small break from the polished image.

Did it surprise you how openly Edita spoke about the toll of childbirth, or is that kind of honesty exactly what new mothers today need most?