Category: body acceptance

• Acceptance

  

  Some of the areas in which I am learning to accept myself:  I accept I am a human being before I am a parent  I accept I have limitations and many shortcomings, and this is okay  I accept I don’t always know the right way  I accept I am often ashamed to admit my own…

  Sami Zabner

  September 19, 2022

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• Fight, flight, or freeze

  

  I’m relentlessly tossed around in the rush of a wave pool (constructed by my own choices) begging for the machine to turn off. Lifeguards watch from the sidelines, mistaking my fearful face with a face of adrenaline. I want to get out. I can’t gain my footing even though the ground isn’t far from my…

  Sami Zabner

  September 16, 2022

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• Boundaries

  

  I never knew of boundaries when I was younger.  That word didn’t really exist in my vocabulary.  Our family, and close knit community, was seemingly nonchalant and carefree about boundaries (or lack thereof). In fact, I’m not sure I even heard that word (used in such a context) until I was in my 20’s and…

  Sami Zabner

  September 12, 2022

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• Life after birth

  

  When people talk about their birth story occasionally you’ll hear a resentful tone in their voice. They might speak of their labor being too long, or maybe there were too many interventions for their liking, or it was too painful, or the epidural didn’t take, or the Pitocin made it too intense, and the list…

  Sami Zabner

  September 8, 2022

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• First latch

  

  She latched with hardly any help that morning she was put on my chest, almost as if she entered this world with a mission to find momma’s milk.  Everyday we had our time together. That moment where I turn to her to empty my breasts and she turns to me looking for food. We got…

  Sami Zabner

  September 5, 2022

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• Selfish comfort

  

  She hit her head really hard the other day and I was reminded of those intrusive postpartum thoughts that were oh so very present in the fresh weeks/months after birth. The thoughts that reminded me of how fragile life is and how little I trust myself to keep her alive. When she was an infant,…

  Sami Zabner

  August 31, 2022

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