Strangers are so keen to tell me my life as I know it will be over soon – thank goodness for those who have told me it will be OK, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Strangers are so keen to tell me my life as I know it will be over soon – thank goodness for those who have told me it will be OKPhotograph: Yui Mok/PAPhotograph: Yui Mok/PAnjoy it while you can”: how I’ve come to dislike these five little words, which have followed me everywhere since my pregnancy became obvious. Suddenly, they are applied to anything pleasurable – sleep, holidays, a meal in a restaurant. “Enjoy it while you can,” people say .
Before I had the baby, it’s not that I thought parenthood was going to be a breeze – I just wanted to hear a tiny bit of positive feedback about it. This is not to be flippant about the very real suffering of many women, which for decades was cloaked in shameful silence.and birth can be dangerous and traumatising, particularly for women but also for men. Part of the reason that we are seeing these stories now is because the cult of motherhood positivity felt so suffocating. Among my friendship group are women and their partners who have suffered traumatic births, pregnancy loss and postnatal depression.
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