How to lazy genius postpartum

#notesfromthetrenches

Spoiler alert: you can’t.

What I mean by that is that no matter what you do, how well you plan, how many tools you have in your belt, and how much support you have, you will at some point still find yourself crying in the bathroom, wondering what you did to your life and if the squalling human that you’ve been keeping alive with your body for three weeks has a return policy.

Spoiler: this does not make you a bad mom.

Postpartum is HARD.

I have a theory, and I’ve heard others say it too so it might not be my theory, that there are four phases of having a baby: getting pregnant, pregnancy, birth and postpartum. The theory is that most people are going to have at least one of those that threatens to take them out at the knees. For some it might be months of infertility treatments or repeated miscarriages. Perhaps for others it’s months of hyperemis gravidarum or a high risk pregnancy on bed…