Adele Adele

I said to a friend, ‘ I f * in ’ hate this, ’ and she just burst into tears and said, ‘ I f * in ’ hate this too. ’ And it was done. It lifted, my knowledge of postpartum — or postnatal, as we call it in England — is that you don’t want to be with your child ; you’re worried you might hurt your child ; you’re worried you were n’t doing a good job.

I felt very inadequate ; I felt like I ’d made the worst decision of my life, it can come in many different forms.