By six weeks postpartum, Aria had her follow-up appointment with her OB-GYN.
She'd been dreading it for days, not because she expected anything to be wrong, but because it felt like a test. A measurement of whether her body had recovered properly, whether she was healing the way she should, and whether she was doing everything right.
Also, she'd have to get on a scale, and face the reality of how much weight she still had to lose.
Dr. Chen's office felt both familiar and strange. The last time Aria had been here, she'd been hugely pregnant, anxious about labor, counting down the days until Emma's arrival. Now she was with a six-week-old baby, and it felt like a completely different lifetime.
"How are you feeling?" Dr. Chen asked after the preliminary checks were done.
"Tired. Really,
