I didn’t expect postpartum to feel like I was losing myself
I didn’t really expect postpartum to feel this emotionally strange.
People talk about the baby the sleepless nights the recovery and everything that comes with it
But nobody really talks about that weird phase where you slowly stop feeling like yourself for a while
You’re still there for everyone else still doing what you’re supposed to do
but inside you feel kind of disconnected from yourself
And what surprised me most is how many women go through this quietly while still acting completely fine on the outside
For a while I thought I was just struggling with motherhood more than I should
But the more I started reading about postpartum and what women actually go through mentally after childbirth the more things started to make sense
I came across a really simple article that explained this in a very clear way
I feel like this is way more common than people talk about