Natalie Wilson

Am I Mothering Correctly?

As of January, 2022, I became a mother to twin boys. They are my first children with my husband, and, let me tell you, I felt incredibly lost at first. I was beyond exhausted, especially at the beginning. My boys were born through an emergency C-section at 35 and a half weeks. One of my boys, we shall call him A, was born at 6 pounds and ended up staying in the NICU for two weeks, as he could not breathe on his own. Our other boy, B, was born exactly four pounds. This period of time was filled with hormones, highs, lows, and questions I never thought I would be asking of myself. Over the next two months, as my husband and I got acclimated to our family doubling in size, I made the executive decision to go see a doctor, as I believed I was suffering from Postpartum Depression. I was quickly diagnosed and began to take Zoloft.