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Rebecca Hoven's avatar

"You could slap me across the face and it wouldn't sting like fluctuating estrogen."

Wow, that brought the postpartum drowning feeling right back. If it's any consolation, only baby #1 arrived with that kind of baggage for me.

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Dia Lupo's avatar

❤️❤️❤️ always a consolation to hear

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Bx's avatar

Your aura swallows me whole

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Dia Lupo's avatar

Reading this is the best I’ll feel all day

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Kyrsten's avatar

Not me tearing up in the bathroom stall I’m hiding in at work!

100% all of this. The boobs, the cigarettes, the lack of supervision! We’re all in it. And the thought of raising a girl has always terrified me. But we out here, doing the damn thing. Here goes everything!

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Dia Lupo's avatar

🥹🥹🥹🤝🤝

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Kendall Brown's avatar

the middle school starbucks story!! <333

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Dia Lupo's avatar

Brings me all the way BACK 🥲

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Catherine Shannon's avatar

Loved this.

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Dia Lupo's avatar

❤️❤️❤️❤️

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extremely offline's avatar

"My heart is heavy with years I’ve yet to live."?? GIRL. Wow. <3

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Dia Lupo's avatar

APPRECIATE YOU <3

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mona lysa's avatar

This was so gut-wrenchingly beautiful and relatable. If I wasn’t so dehydrated, I could cry 🤍

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Dia Lupo's avatar

screaming at the dehydration THANK U ANGEL

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Lisa's avatar
7dEdited

Tony Sopranos has the best wings and the WHP is yes….love to see it represented

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Dia Lupo's avatar

Now I gotta try the wings!!

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Lisa Kholostenko's avatar

So good.

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Dia Lupo's avatar

ty so much babe <333

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Jortzinho's avatar

A super turbo ultra heater (not said lightly)

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Dia Lupo's avatar

🥲🥲🥲❤️❤️

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Jortzinho's avatar

I screech into the wawa parking lot

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ayan artan's avatar

stared at a wall for five minutes after i finished reading. ur brain >>>

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Dia Lupo's avatar

when the love comes from an esteemed critic as yourself… well, I’ll fcking take it

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ayan artan's avatar

blushing, kicking my feet etc etc 🤭😘❤️❤️

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third eye lisa's avatar

motherrrr

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Dia Lupo's avatar

3️⃣👁️👸

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Jenovia 🕸️'s avatar

The Basset Hounds 😭😂 I loved this. Being a woman is the greatest, messiest, bewildering, awe-inducing experience on Earth.

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Dia Lupo's avatar

Emphasis on messy 🙃🙃🙃❤️❤️

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Charlotte Stephens's avatar

This is beautiful. The postpartum experience is absolutely wild – the highest highs followed by the lowest lows on repeat to infinity and beyond

Some unsolicited advice from a fellow breastfeeder who has suffered the consequences – stick with the nursing bras for now. Sexy bras are sexy but they're also restrictive, and mastitis is worse than childbirth so just not worth the risk

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Dia Lupo's avatar

I’ll take all the unsolicited advice so THANK YOU QUEEN 💞

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Charlotte Stephens's avatar

Any time 💞

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Erin Eissa's avatar

Love this! I can feel it viscerally. Godspeed xx

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Dia Lupo's avatar

❤️ appreciate that so much

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