Postpartum & Recovery

You are three weeks in. The baby is finally asleep on your chest, and you shift your weight to reach […]

You find it in the shower drain first. Then on your pillow. Then in your hairbrush, in clumps that make

Sitting down is a whole event now. You lower yourself onto the donut pillow like you are defusing something, breathe

You go to laugh at something and instinctively press a hand against your incision first, bracing. Standing up from a

One minute you are crying at a diaper commercial. The next you are furious at your partner for breathing too

You are standing in the skincare aisle, phone out, trying to read ingredient lists you do not fully understand, googling

You sneeze at the grocery store and your body reacts in a way it never used to. You laugh too

Your lips are cracked. You have a headache that will not quit. You realize, sitting down to feed the baby

Dark patches show up across your cheeks that were not there before. Your skin, which used to behave predictably, breaks