Sally
“Don’t you want to hold your baby?” the pack doctor asks Blair for the second time.
“Uh, no?” Blair responds from her bed and laughs. “I mean, I’ve been pregnant for two months already. Can’t I get a freaking break?”
The doctor looks stunned.
Blair has just given birth to a beautiful daughter inside her own room. The whole childbirth took less than an hour with the pack doctor’s magic. Blair isn’t in any pain at all, which must be why the pack doctor is so surprised about her unwillingness to tend to her own baby.
I’m not surprised. Not even a little bit. Blair never had a maternal aura about her, and I am aware that postpartum depression is a real issue for many women after childbirth. It can manifest as intense feelings of sadness, anxiety, and exhaustion that linger long afte
