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The Emotion of Not Being Your Baby’s Preferred Parent

The Emotion of Not Being Your Baby’s Preferred Parent

We talk a lot about the difficulties of early parenthood. Between the birthing parent’s healing from the massive health event that is having a baby, to functioning on fragmented sleep, to learning the ropes of caring for a tiny human…it’s a lot.  But here’s something we don’t talk about enough: The complicated emotional experience of that beautifully chaotic, bleary-eyed first …

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