No. 6, November-December 2000, pp. My sister and my friends have been so happy with their babies, and I wanted that happiness, too. Instead, ever since my baby has been born I've had the blues.
Little frustrations seem so overwhelming.
Being a mother seems harder to me than my former job as a corporate lawyer. My mother says it's just postpartum adjustment and things will get better. I hope she's right, but sometimes it's hard to believe things will ever change. This statement made me feel better, but also worse. This is seriously difficult.