Postpartum Poems - Poems about Postpartum

... so easy to fall, and so hard to break free somehow as a child I knew it was as if they knew my name before I had a clue at 10 reading books about orphans free from the church the dignity of......Read the rest...

...Everyone loves a new mother. We give her pampering gifts. Send her carnations and roses. Promise her candles, warm baths, chocolates. Tromp into the hospital bearing onesies with cute sayings. P......Read the rest...

...I would move mountains for all the working mothers: To untangle our communities and have someone see their true colors. To stop mothers from carrying the brunt of communal dysfunction, To guide a......Read the rest...

...Shared enthusiastic curiosity between two or more May also become felt as mutually assured active hope we might make it through dinner without seeking reparations while digging our way thr......Read the rest...

...Mommy, don't be upset When they say how you should stand, sit and eat While I munch on your blood and meat. Just don't be upset When they advise you on when I should be fed. You alone know wh......Read the rest...

...I have no time Melinda argues You need to take time for you, we tell her. I am way to busy! She shrieks. She is on her own last nerve. We see it. One aunt says she will watch the two-year-old ......Read the rest...

...Human history is difficult; hard pressed, discovering and rediscovering, connecting and reconnecting feelings about therapeutic needs and sacred wants for trauma-prevention peace trust joy ......Read the rest...

...Enjoying thinking about switching computer keep attention to the sink for postpartum poltergeist style 8:00 surcharge forum......Read the rest...

...As the Dime Store sirens flared bolts of irradiated invite, my query was denied. Their pimp-striped pilots only moaned, their lust fueled by encapsulated stench carried only by ......Read the rest...

...Like every divorced couple, we were transitioning into a platonic relationship as friends full of understanding. My former husband seems entirely decided to give life a fresh try. He is thinking of a......Read the rest...

...If a maturely individuated ego... Honey, you just left out most of us. Could you work on being more inclusive? is organically holistically SelfAware, co-redefining as Not some Other consc......Read the rest...

... America was born in protest violence, but Lady Liberty now has postpartum memento — A colonial, hypocritical condition called: Revoltee Protestation Amnesia Wavy umbilical vanished......Read the rest...

...for Charlotte: stuck in circles, bars, postpartum woes yellow wallpaper......Read the rest...

...Born into an ordinary, churchgoing family No one expected Satan to reign supreme Relapse and rehab and sobriety chips Postpartum vacations in the psych ward’s west wing Three decades of life, age......Read the rest...

...The woman was older, had black hair, angry brown eyes, and wore a perpetual frown on her face. Chel had heard the nurse on the floor refer to her as Nan. They had had no conversation in the twelve h......Read the rest...