My body was never perfect. But it was sufficient.
It wasn’t perfectly healthy but it didn’t get sick too often, at least after I grew out of the inevitable childhood colds and respiratory infections which, as I now read, build up the immunity that we enjoy as adults.
It wasn’t…
The day before my son’s first birthday, me and my husband had a huge fight. Proven fact: even if you have lived in perfect peace before having kids, you will find many, many reasons to fight after… and this was one of those times.
Long story short, my son was…
And no, I didn’t get it (yet). If I did, the title might have been different.
You know what else no one tells you about having a baby? How lonely you’ll feel.
Yet you’re never alone, one can think. You have a baby! A whole new person!
Yes, a baby…
A month after giving birth, I was lying in my bed, consumed by an all-powerful emotion.
Fear.
“Please don’t leave me alone”, I said to my husband for the hundredth time. “Please. Take another month. Stay with me longer. I can’t do it on my own. I can’t. I won’t.”
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