I love this article by the title already!! Sadly I’m going to ask my doc next week if that’s the case for me too, my Mom is very anemic and I fear I am as well. Praying you feel better soon!
As the mother of five now adult sons I always joked about latency as being the time when cute young boys turned into farting, nose picking, “no girls allowed” creatures who both still needed but had to reject Mama. Fun times! And I also relate to your insane busyness as I see it in my older children. Always busy!! But I am a lazyass boomer and I don’t understand.
Latency also annoyed me as a midwife. The latent phase of labor was somehow understood to be a kind of useless preparation we women did for the real thing, but in fact it’s an important part of the process of labor. If women are left to their own devices, they start processes organically and steadily complete them. Look at Rachel Entrekin!
And a side note about the tradwives whose births I sometimes attend: part of the movement (influencers aside) reflects a desire to lean into that part of our nature as women.
Have you read this? Reminded me of some of the things you said here! It's tongue-in-cheek but make some excellent points. https://elenabridgers.substack.com/p/lindy-west-and-hannah-neeleman-have?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e7zgp
(ps I'm tired too 😂 And now I know why! I recently learned I'm in iron transfusion territory with how low my numbers are!)
I love this article by the title already!! Sadly I’m going to ask my doc next week if that’s the case for me too, my Mom is very anemic and I fear I am as well. Praying you feel better soon!
As the mother of five now adult sons I always joked about latency as being the time when cute young boys turned into farting, nose picking, “no girls allowed” creatures who both still needed but had to reject Mama. Fun times! And I also relate to your insane busyness as I see it in my older children. Always busy!! But I am a lazyass boomer and I don’t understand.
Latency also annoyed me as a midwife. The latent phase of labor was somehow understood to be a kind of useless preparation we women did for the real thing, but in fact it’s an important part of the process of labor. If women are left to their own devices, they start processes organically and steadily complete them. Look at Rachel Entrekin!
And a side note about the tradwives whose births I sometimes attend: part of the movement (influencers aside) reflects a desire to lean into that part of our nature as women.
Thank you for your thoughts!
Wow, this is so interesting! I have one son and I am pregnant now (we don’t know the sex). So cool to read this!