Setting Boundaries Postpartum

I protected my peace postpartum by setting strict boundaries with my family. It's 3 years later and no regrets.

My mom gave me a hard time about this. She told me I was really going to regret not letting people closer to me postpartum. This is the only thing she was wrong about (sorry mom). It’s now years later and I still don’t regret a single boundary I set.

A mother playfully engages with her baby while doing a plank exercise on a yoga mat in a bright studio.

The truth is that protecting my peace is the glue that held me together postpartum. I’m an older mom and did not tolerate pregnancy well. I had a lot of complications and needed a long time to recover. I think maybe it if I was younger and healthier these boundaries may not have been so important, but I needed my body to feel safe in order to recover and that meant not having too many people around me.

So now I encourage moms to set their boundaries during pregnancy about postpartum. You really don’t regret setting the boundaries. You do regret loosening them though.

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