# @thesharonmoms on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DdCDv0PRgk7
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70087243-thesharonmoms-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-08T16:00:22.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Brit & Sydney Sharon (@thesharonmoms) — https://gondola.cc/thesharonmoms

## Caption

I knew about the drop after birth. The baby blues. The hormones crashing while your milk comes in and your body tries to figure out what just happened. I was prepared for that part.

Nobody prepared me for this. Five months postpartum. Exclusively breastfeeding twins on demand. And something shifted in the last few weeks that I didn’t see coming — a heaviness I couldn’t name, an emotional fatigue that felt different from the tired I’ve been carrying since April. A second wave. Out of nowhere. Or so I thought.

Turns out it’s not out of nowhere at all.

There is a second significant hormonal disruption that happens around 4 to 6 months postpartum — particularly for women who are breastfeeding. 

When you’re exclusively breastfeeding, your body sustains elevated prolactin — the hormone that drives milk production — while keeping estrogen chronically low. Low estrogen affects mood, cognition, emotional regulation, and sleep quality. It’s the same hormonal environment that causes symptoms in perimenopause.

Add to that by month four, five, six months…the cumulative sleep deprivation has peaked. Your cortisol has been elevated for months. Your serotonin and dopamine are depleted. Your body has been running on adrenaline and it is starting to run out.

The baby blues get a name. They get a warning. They get a chapter in every parenting book.

This doesn’t.

So when it arrived — the flatness, the fatigue that sleep doesn’t fix, the feeling of being emotionally wrung out in a way that’s hard to explain — I thought something was wrong with me.

Nothing is wrong with me. My body is doing exactly what bodies do after four pregnancies, five babies, and five months of exclusively feeding two of them simultaneously.

If you’re in month four, five, or six and something feels off — this is for you. You’re not failing. You’re not broken. You’re in the second wave.

And now you know it has a name. 🤍

Did anyone warn you about this? ↓

#postpartum #breastfeeding #postpartummentalhealth #exclusivelybreastfeeding #twinmom

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postpartummentalhealth, exclusivelybreastfeeding, postpartum, twinmom, breastfeeding

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