3 Ways to Reclaim Your Identity After Having a Baby

Samantha Guidry
3 min readMar 29, 2022
Going through a postpartum identity crisis? Here’s how to feel like yourself again.

“I feel like an alien!” I can’t even tell you how often I said this after having my son. Who knew you’d also be changing your own diaper for a solid six weeks postpartum? The bleeding, breastfeeding, sore nipples, sleep deprivation, sore nipples, emotional rollercoaster, did I mention sore nipples? Woah! It’s the shit they don’t tell you about that really gets you. But what I found to be the hardest…

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