Postpartum - Loving your baby while missing yourself

No one talks about how you can love your baby deeply…👶
and still miss the woman you were before.
You miss your body.
Your energy.
Your sense of control.

That doesn’t make you ungrateful.
It makes you honest 😮‍💨
Postpartum is holding joy and grief in the same hands and learning there’s room for both.

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