Laura Henshaw

Like postpartum is such a huge thing to go through.

I mean, with any big life experience, it changes you.

You can't expect yourself to be exactly who you were before.

And as someone who's a control freak, like type A, like we're very similar in that way.

It's really, it's actually really hard.

I think it's been the way that I have expanded.

And I feel like you, and also just being like, whoa, women are...

Like it's actually wild what we go through.

And then we just, our resilience is like, if someone had told me like, you're not going to sleep like that much every single night, you're still going to be able to get through your day.

You're going to do all of these things and wear this new hat.

I'd be like, not possible.

And that was a big part of my fear before becoming pregnant and trying to work out if we wanted to, my husband and I wanted to have kids or not.

This fear of like, will I lose myself?

Yeah.

will I lose my whole identity?

And I think when you get to a point where you really like yourself, which as a woman is so hard, right?

So you get to this point where you're like, I really love my life.

I'm really proud of myself.

I tie a lot of my identity into my career.

I have tried to undo a lot of that, but there's still a part of me that will always have that.