Why being a physician mom is harder than anyone admits
There’s so much we don’t say out loud.
Not because it’s not true.
Not because it doesn’t matter.
But because somewhere along the way, we were taught that strength looks like silence—and that if we’re struggling, it must mean we’re doing something wrong. Or maybe we just forgot, in the brain fog of postpartum hormones and the blur of sleepless nights.
I’m a family physician. I’m also a mother to an amazingly bright and …
