“I’m just so bored,” I cried to my husband, saying the thing no new mother is supposed to say during the first few weeks of her new child's life. My brain couldn’t handle another hour of pointless TV and my body had hit its max capacity of rawness.
You are stripped down to a version of yourself that is completely unknown, one that aches and bleeds, one t…
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