The Postnatal Depletion Cure: A Complete Guide to Rebuilding Your Health and Reclaiming Your Energy for Mothers of Newborns, Toddlers, and Young Children

with appropriate social support for the mother to fully recover after she gives birth.

protected time—what is sometimes referred to as confinement but what really entails privacy, respect, and protection—

taxing. Many women worry that if it’s not all joy, if they don’t have an instant instinct for tending to their child’s every need, then they are failing somehow.

She felt as if she were drowning in her own sense of overwhelm, she had constant brain fog (commonly called baby brain), she suffered from a loss of confidence and a feeling of isolation, and she was not able to take care of herself fully. She was extremely fatigued, suffered anxiety, felt her sleep was superficial at best, and had a deep fear that