Having a baby is intense.
This is a severe understatement. It is more than intense; it is a mashing together of hundreds of emotions alongside huge physiological and psychological experiences all at the same time.
You’ve birthed a human being (whichever way you do this it’s tough), you’re more exhausted than you’ve ever been, a cocktail of hormones is coursing through your veins, you’re dealing with heavy postpartum bleeding, leaking breastmilk, and alternating back pain and wound pain.
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Simultaneously, you are also experiencing the most immense love and connection imaginable with a human being that you brought into the world. There is the deepest sense of responsibility and fragility you’ve ever known, and while all of this is going on – every one of your family and friends is begging to come and see the baby!
Maybe it’s not like this for every new mama, but this closely resembles my experience when I had my first child.
I was completely overwhelmed by love for my new little boy, and completely overwhelmed with baby blues and hormones and the new routine and hunger and exhaustion and my feelings of complete insufficiency as a new mother.
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