@stillbecomingmama: what it really looks like is plural. that is the thing the single frame always gets wrong. a photo of one mom in one dark room with one baby at 3am is accurate and incomplete at the same time the way a single raindrop is accurate and incomplete as a picture of rain. the truth of 3am motherhood is not one woman. it was never one woman. it is the simultaneity of it, the hundreds of dark rooms running in parallel at this exact hour, the fact that right now as you read this there are women across every time zone doing the same unglamorous unfiltered unremarkable extraordinary thing and not one of them is doing it instead of the others. all of them at once. always all of them at once. and what the single frame of one mom in one dark room does, with the best intentions, is make the plural look singular. it makes the rain look like a raindrop. and a raindrop is lonely in a way that rain is not. a raindrop is isolated and finite and small in a way that rain refuses to be. and all of those reels and posts and honest shares from individual moms, including this one, are raindrops that were always part of rain. the map is the first time i saw the rain. not one woman’s honest 3am. the whole simultaneous truth of it. every drop at once. and the rain is not lonely. the rain has never been lonely. it just took a map to see that what looked like one raindrop in the dark was always rain. #postpartum #newmom #postpartumsupport #momtok #momlife

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