the.com/postpartum
the plot twist after the plot twist, when the baby's out but your body hasn't gotten the memo.
means the weeks after childbirth when hormones crash, organs shift back, and the body and mind recover from making a human.
from latin post partum, literally after birth, medically clinical for centuries until it got tangled up with mood disorders in the 20th century and became a word everyone whispers instead of says.
durationtechnically lasts up to a year, not six weeks
hormone crashsteeper drop than any withdrawal known to medicine
uterus shrinkagegoes from watermelon to pear in weeks
dads toopartners can get postpartum depression from hormone shifts