12: I'm A Newborn Too

When a baby is born, so too is a mother. Everyone swoops in to care for, snuggle, nurture, and comfort the baby. But what about the mother? She also came out of that experience a new person. A stranger in her body and the world. I promise you she needs as much coddling, feeding, sleep, care, nurturing, and love as the baby. Honestly? More. Yet there is so much pressure to get back to everything. Work, your jeans, your activities, your old life. What is instead, we approached the first year postpartum honoring that we are new here too. That we are learning about ourselves, the world, and our place in it every single day. We are growing up together with our babies.

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