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[quote=Anonymous]What has set me back in motherhood is having a traumatic childbirth and postpartum PTSD (just getting properly diagnosed took a year!), having permanent birth injuries that have badly impacted my quality of life and mean I can’t do impact exercise, wear tampons, or have good sex anymore, having children with unanticipated health issues and special needs, and having kids who don’t sleep so my sleep deprivation has lasted years, literally. And then the massive impact all of these things has had on our marriage.

It’s a painful experience to get together with other friends who  have more typical parenting experience without these challenges and for them to look at you cross eyed like, “oh parenting isn’t that hard.” Or who just cannot relate to you at all - like the girlfriends that don’t understand why I haven’t lost my baby weight and can’t just run a 10K with them. Like, sorry Karen, having kids broke my vagina and it’s falling out of my body - literally. They just don’t get it at all. [/quote]

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