Post by Devan McGuinness.
![]()
There are a lot of challenges in parenthood, and they start very early on in the parenthood process. For some, it's the struggle to get or stay pregnant; for others, the pregnancy itself is demanding and draining. Then there's the labor and birth, which can also go sideways even with the best of plans. Once the baby is born, it's a new level of hard. We have to recover from the pregnancy, labor, and birth all while taking care of a new human, and neither parents nor baby knows what they're really doing yet.