It wasn’t so much the fact of the cesarean-section itself that was traumatic — it was everything I didn’t know about it going in, and everything that happened immediately after.

For many women, it comes as  no surprise that sex feels “different” after having a vaginal delivery. Often, we expect to feel “loose” after delivering a baby vaginally, because of the stretching that the vagina goes through;

Depression, in some form, has dipped in and out of my adult life, like an old boyfriend who, every couple of years, sends you an email or a text that ends up derailing your entire day.

Oh, shit, here it comes: Another one in your inbox. A good friend has a baby, and their well-meaning partner has the nerve to send a breathlessly typed missive straight from the hospital . . .