My MIL used her spare key to let herself into our house, thinking I was asleep with my newborn — then I heard her tell my husband, “She can never know”
Three weeks after giving birth, I was exhausted almost every minute of the day.
I had imagined maternity leave would be tiring, of course. Everyone warned me about sleepless nights and endless feedings. But nobody had really explained what it felt like to exist in two-hour stretches, never knowing whether it was morning or evening, forgetting when I had last showered, and sometimes realizing at four in the afternoon that I had eaten nothing but a piece of toast.
That afternoon, my daughter had been especially restless.