22/10/2025

What Is Happening to My Body?

Yesterday, I rode a bicycle for the first time since giving birth. It wasn’t far—just a ten-minute trip to the butcher shop—but it felt like a tiny triumph. I could sit on the seat. That simple, mundane fact would have been impossible six weeks ago. Then, even lowering myself into a chair required strategy. Pain. Bracing. Breath-holding.