Somehow we made it to two months of breastfeeding. At first, it didn’t seem like we would last more than a couple of weeks. Even after putting my baby on the breast, on demand, for seven days, we found out that she lost more than 10% of her birth weight. We quickly supplemented and I …
When I had my first baby five years ago, getting good post-partum care was the last thing on my mind. My son was a preemie, born at 33 weeks and was in the NICU. So I spent the first 15 days post-birth commuting daily to the NICU, spending all day by the incubator, and pumping …
As hard as it was, there are a few things I miss about being pregnant, one was which was being visibly disabled. While my symptoms of being pregnant – nausea, heaviness, fatigue – are not as severe as my usual lupus symptoms, I was given much more consideration when I was in a public space. …
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