On today's episode of the podcast, I talk about what it's like to be three and a half weeks postpartum,

and what these first weeks of the newborn bubble has actually been like.

I talk about my recovery from birth and how I'm feeling physically and emotionally,

and of course talk about sleep and the really important need to lower the bar,

to be okay with not getting anything done, not getting anything accomplished, and how I'm doing

my best to rest and lean into this season of softness in my life.

Let's jump in.

Hi everyone. Hello, hello. Welcome back to the show. Welcome to newborn bubble,

which is where I reside right now. Good morning. Yeah, of course, I don't know what time it is as

you're listening to this, but it is morning over here. And I'm just deep in the baby bubble right now.

Like, it's very hard for me to think about anything else. It really is just all consuming this time.

And if I sound tired, it's because I am. I am absolutely tired. I'm tired and

feeling blissful, feeling just soft and vulnerable, and exhausted, and happy, and you know,

all the things at the same time. And I find it so, you know, it's so funny when you have a

when you have a newborn baby and you're nursing all night and you're not getting to sleep that

you normally get. I find that the mornings, we don't really have that clear transition from

night to day, you know, with an older child, a little bit older. I mean, we'll have this in a

couple months, but you know, they kind of wake up at a certain time every morning, and regardless

of how the night has been, if it was a terrible night or a great night or a full night sleep or no

sleep, you know, the day has begun. Like that child will be awake and like, okay, here we go. The day,

the day is starting. But with a newborn, you know, they just sleep so much and they sleep all the time.

And I find that that transition to waking up, it's just, it's very long. Like sometimes we wake up,

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