In Episode 20 of After the Quiet, I share the birth of my second child and the exhausting postpartum season that followed. From a traumatic labor where the epidural failed and pain consumed my body, to nights alone in the hospital while my baby was treated for jaundice, this episode explores what happens when motherhood is shouldered without support. I talk about bringing home a colicky newborn, caring for a toddler, surviving on little sleep, and quietly adapting to impossible expectations. This episode reflects on postpartum exhaustion, emotional neglect, and the unseen labor of mothers who keep going when there is no room to rest