It’s hard to believe that it’s been ten years since I became a mom. I remember those awkward postpartum days, rocked by a whole new way of life. My belly was squishy in a way it’s never recovered from. There was all this weird postpartum hair loss coating my shower wall. And I was exhausted— sleep-deprived and always on the verge of tears about it. I watched my friends with slightly older kids lay their little ones down to bed, and their babies just went to sleep in the crib, just like that. They slept without requiring rocking and singing and tiptoeing out of the room, only to start the…