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I'm laughing at pajama bottoms, black thongs, and sexual frustration at Walmart.  THAT sounds like new motherhood - I think you have your poem!   I also think that the intensity of having recently had a baby (and I mean, like the whole first year at least - after EACH baby) . . . the swelling of hormones, the changing neurochemistry, the lack of sleep and sex, continued physical demands if you choose breastfeeding . . . yeah, it's hard.  It's not at all shocking that you'd be finding it hard to write.  In Islam, there's the concept that a woman is on her own personal jihad (holy journey . . . not war) during each pregnancy and two years following the birth . . . that it's a time of inward reflection.  Writing is an inward activity, but reflects outward.   

by White_Feather on June 29 2007