I Thought I Was Struggling After Giving Birth Until My Grandmother Asked A Question That Changed Everything

she said, and for a second I thought I had misheard her, because I had been awake for nearly forty hours, drifting in and out of shallow sleep between nurse checks and feeding attempts and the tiny startled sounds my daughter made whenever the bassinet squeaked, and because the sentence made no sense inside the life I believed I was living.

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