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Missing your old life after having a baby

I had a baby eight months ago and I love her but I miss my old life and my old body and my old self and I feel like a monster for wanting anything other than this blessing.

Mira
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More people experience this than they realize.

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Motherhood can simultaneously be the greatest joy and the most complete obliteration of the self you used to know.

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