Healing (weeks 1 to 6): what your body is doing when everyone just says “rest”
Your uterus is shrinking from the size of a watermelon to the size of a pear. You have a wound the size of a dinner plate healing internally. Here is what those first six weeks are actually made of, and why rest is a support problem, not a willpower one.
The six-week postpartum myth: what the research says the system got wrong
A study of more than 1,100 women found that fewer than half were fully recovered at six months. The median for full recovery across all four domains was fifteen weeks. Six weeks was never the finish line. It is the point where the system stopped looking.
Dismissed at your own birth: how to name it and what to do next
You were not being dramatic. You were being dismissed. There is a difference between a birth that was simply hard and a birth where your voice was taken from you, and naming it is the first repair.
The two-week wait and the mental load nobody prepares you for
On paper it is fourteen days. In your body it is something closer to a year lived in fast forward and slow motion at the same time. There is nothing left to do, and everything left to feel.
Perimenopause is a matrescence too: the change nobody names
We have a word for becoming a mother. There is another crossing just as big, just as physical, just as disorienting, and it has even less language around it. You are not declining. You are crossing over.
What the acetaminophen research says for pregnancy, and what it doesn’t
The loud claim is the one the best evidence does not support. The quieter question got almost no airtime. Here is the actual picture, both halves of it, so the choice stays yours.
Praying through the season you can’t fix
You have prayed the prayer. You have done the things. And the thing you are asking for has not come. Prayer in a season you cannot change is less like a machine you operate and more like being carried.
