Molly Caro May shares a personal story about new motherhood and her unexpected postpartum difficulties . . .
EXCERPT: “Pregnancy may have knocked me over, but I had labored like Wonder Woman. If the upswing trajectory followed, postpartum would be manageable, maybe even a breeze.”
ABOUT MOLLY CARO MAY
Molly Caro May is a writer whose work explores body, place and the foreign. She leads writing workshops across the country and her work has appeared in Orion Magazine, Salon, and Fourth Genre, among others. Her memoir, The Map of Enough: One Woman’s Search For Place (Counterpoint Press) was published in 2014. She lives with her husband and daughter in Bozeman, Montana where she is co-founder of the Thunderhead Writers’ Collective. Her next book explores emotional inheritance through the matrilineal lineage.
Hey Molly. You dont have to live with this. I had similar problems after carrying and birthing my twins. I put up with it for YEARS because it seemed to me I wasn’t doing my exercises hard enough, I wasn’t doing anything hard enough…I thought! But it turned out nothing could fix it except modern medicine… and a small gynocological operation could sort it out. It has! Good luck with everything. Catherine