In Their Skin star Selma Blair was photographed with son Arthur, 3 1/2, in Studio City, Calif. last week. The Anger Management alum, 42, stopped to plant a smooch on her son after picking him up from preschool.

“It blows my mind to think about how intense the bond is that women have with their children, especially in the first few years of life. And it just blows my mind that everyone who has children feels this way, too,” Selma told The Glow in a recent interview. “If the world is capable of this much love, and patience, and understanding, I just can’t imagine what we’re all capable of together.”

While Selma loves motherhood, it sounds like her pregnancy was quite transformative as well.

“I was so blissed-out when I was pregnant,” she shared. “I had an amazing pregnancy—the hormones felt great, I was really active, I didn’t need a lot of sleep, I never had morning sickness after the first month. I was just a totally different person.”

She even stopped wearing black, her go color, because she’s “just too happy now.”

“When I first had Arthur, I knew it was going to be tough, and I’m not young so I looked pretty rough for a while, until I got the hang of figuring out a sleep pattern,” she dished. “And I just thought, well, that’s the way it goes. I’m a mom now.”

Although she split from Arthur’s dad, Jason Bleick, being a single mom has been a blessing.

“It takes a village, and it’s really hard to be the village on your own,” she said. “But it’s still amazingly rewarding.”

And she has no shame in the beautiful bond she has with her son.

“As a mom, there’s almost a shame in feeling too attached, like there’s something shameful in saying, ‘My kid is my life these days,’” she said. “There’s a time and a place, especially when they’re this young. Let yourself enjoy it. I wish people talked about the love more.”

“When I was pregnant, I had no idea how attached I’d be and that I’d want to be in every part of Arthur’s waking and sleeping life…No one really stays up with a baby the way a mom does,” Selma shared, noting that she fired the night nurse she hired before Arthur was born and went with just a doula on the baby’s first night at home. “Dads will try, but for the most part I say moms are the ones to really do it. But I have so many friends who, god bless them, hired someone and they got sleep, and it worked for them. Whatever works for you, it just wasn’t my path.”

She added: “I never thought I’d be one of those people who cherish every second. I don’t think any other miracle could have grounded me in this way—I appreciate every second I’m in his company.”

The proud mom recently Instagrammed an adorable image of her lil’ fisherman.

First fish. Proud.

A photo posted by Selma Blair (@therealselmablair) on Mar 20, 2015 at 1:06pm PDT

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