I’ve had this topic sort of bumping around in my brain for a while, and I think it’s finally time to talk about it. Obviously becoming a parent is a huge responsibility, but that’s not what I’m talking about when I say burden. The burden of parenting is not the responsibility that comes with becoming a parent. The burden of parenting is the burden of parenting yourself. Along with postpartum comes all kinds of banal horror. The things that a …
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I know now that I'm not a lemon. But I think I still need to talk about how bad things got, and how quickly after I gave birth. In the early, delirious, sleep-deprived days, there was …