HeyJaredThe Embodied Mother
Exploring life through the lens of a mother living her authentic curious life.
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Birth Doesn't Go To Plan (opens the original)
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For the birth story only, skip down to the second heading “The birth of my second daughter.”Preparing for birthIt is much more common to hear the stories of birth not going the way people have wanted than it is to hear of a birth going ‘to plan’.I was well aware of this during my second pregnancy, having experienced a completely unexpected, but welcomed series of events in my first birth: an unplanned home birth.So I decided that I wasn’t going to
They're not my thoughts. (opens the original)
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Welcome to entry #2. I’ve been keeping a list of all the things I want to write about in this series, but when it came to having a clear moment to write today I felt called to share the most real thing that I am experiencing today.The familiar voices of an eating disorder that have shown up during this postpartum period despite 10-years of relative and cumulative freedom and recovery.I have shared before on other social media platforms how much I enjoy pregnancy. Not all of it - everything is nu
Are we mistaking mum grief with mum guilt? (opens the original)
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Hello from the depths of postpartum. I am writing this one handed with a 9-day old baby asleep on my other. This is probably where some kind of voice dictation tool would come in handy but I like the felt process of thought to written word so I’ll stubbornly stick to this lopsided attempt.I didn’t need to make this a series: postpartum diaries, and doing so may well have destined it to its failure, as I am terrible when it comes to consistency of a series. But I feel compelled to write - a littl
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