Finding Yourself After Motherhood: The Part No One Talks About

When you have a baby, everything shifts in an instant. Suddenly your entire heart exists outside your body, cradled in your arms. You’re terrified beyond words, protective like a wild animal, drowning in a love so fierce it physically hurts – and then you catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and think, “Who the hell is this person?”

I remember standing there, holding my baby, staring at this stranger looking back at me. Your body looks almost the same as when you were pregnant, except now the baby is out, and you’re left with this vessel that created life (which is incredible) but feels like it belongs to someone else. Someone you don’t know. Someone you’re not sure you want to know.

There’s no pause button. No moment to process the emotional earthquake. The first month is survival mode. You’re too busy keeping a tiny human alive to grieve the life you had before.

And that’s the part no one says out loud — love doesn’t erase the difficulty.

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