Things they never tell you...

While there are many glorious things that no one ever tells you about pregnancy (um why is my skin so dark "down there"?  what's with all this hair?  am I pregnant or slowly becoming a gorilla?) and labor (why is my entire body shaking like a 8 point earthquake?) the thing I am thinking about the most during the last throws of postpartum is the freaking hot flashes!!

Yes friends, after birth your estrogen levels plummet making you feel... menopausal.  The hot flashes are sometimes worse for me when breastfeeding, but like a bad comic book villain, they can strike at any time.

Heat, inescapable heat, rising through your body and making you pit out like you just ran a triathlon.  Ah the beauty of being a mother.

Next week, where did my stomach go and who is that sharpei hanging around my midsection?