http://goop.com/postnatal-depletion-even-10-years-later/
I hope this flies so you can read it. I'm thinking of all the young women I know who have baby after baby and wind up feeling inadequate and incompetent because they aren't feeling fabulous.
A lot of this is physical. We are bodies, not spirits. And if we've given birth, we also--not just the baby--need care and help.
Goodness! That explains why I felt so stupid during my pregnancies. I was a full-time student during the first six months of one pregnancy and during the whole term of my second - each time trying to complete the senior year of my university studies (in two different schools, with attendant loss of credit in the transfer, of course!) I had baby brain!
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The good thing is that the babies got so much of our good stuff!. I am still a wreck. combine baby brain with losing your hearing and having total anxiety as a side effect of polio....it's the perfect storm!
ReplyDeleteI know that you've written about your bout with polio. Scary, indeed!
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