#Postpartum

Postpartum is the moment when the body, having just completed the great feat of childbirth, is ambushed by fatigue and responsibility. Sleep schedules collapse in deference to the baby's whims, rendering 'rest' a distant legend. Conversations shrink to diaper changes and feeding logs, as if brain cells evaporated at delivery. A new mother sees her worth only in the mirror of her former self, haunted by comparisons. True reprieve comes only with talk of the next due date—a festival of survival entwined with suffering.