The Postpartum Decade
We were sold a six-week check-up and a return to normal. Researchers are now describing a much longer arc.
The six-week postpartum visit is, in most cases, the last time a mother is medically examined for years. The research community has begun calling this what it is: a failure of follow-up.
The postpartum period — physiologically, neurologically, identity-wise — can take a decade. The mothers already knew.
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