The Silent Pressure on New Mothers to “Bounce Back” After Birth

For many women, childbirth is described as a beginning. A new life. A new chapter. But for career-oriented women, it often arrives with an unspoken countdown. How soon will you return to work? How quickly will your body look the same? How efficiently can you perform as if nothing fundamentally changed? This pressure to “bounce […]
Does Rest Feel Like Guilt to You? It Does to Most Mothers

For many mothers, rest is not neutral. It is loaded. What should feel restorative instead arrives wrapped in unease — a quiet voice asking whether something more productive, more necessary, more selfless should be done instead. This experience is rarely spoken about directly, yet it is widely shared. Mothers often describe rest not as relief,…...