March 1, 2024Pleiades

Postpartum—A Conversation in Letters Never Sent, and: When I Was Straight

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CMCaridad Moro-Gronlier

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Literary narrative reveals profound physical exhaustion and lactation challenges during early motherhood, highlighting the emotional complexity of queer maternal identity.

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Severe physical exhaustion and infant feeding struggles define the early postpartum period, altering maternal physical well-being.
Letters chronicling months one through three document unrelenting maternal fatigue alongside intense pressures surrounding lactation.
Epistolary narrative incorporates poetic fragments and queer theory to examine interpersonal connections during early motherhood.

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Caridad Moro-Gronlier (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e76b0eb6db6435876e145e https://doi.org/10.1353/plc.2024.a926545

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Literary narrative reveals profound physical exhaustion and lactation challenges during early motherhood, highlighting the emotional complexity of queer maternal identity.

Postpartum—A Conversation in Letters Never Sent, and: When I Was Straight

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Postpartum—A Conversation in Letters Never Sent, and: When I Was Straight

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