These feelings can be engulfing and irresistible, with great power like the ocean itself. Nancy met such intensity when she held her third baby and felt a deep and unexpected connection with him. By 'pure' I mean it was untouched by human hands, if you will. No one 'made' this experience happen. There were no words or ideas involved, it was just its own wondrous happening.
Emotions tend to be fluid and changeable in the days after childbirth.
Not only do we shift easily from one mood to another, but we can feel simultaneous joy and sadness. It was a great relief to cry that one out of the deep place where I'd hidden it these past five days. With Nick's love to comfort me and Devin in my arms it was simultaneously bliss and sadness. The easy tears of new mothers are a well-known phenomenon. But I've also seen an emotionally reserved man burst into tears as he struggled to write a letter about his week-old baby.