"Everyone is concerned about the baby. But no one understands what your body really goes through — especially living abroad, where I had little or no help."
I am a mother of two young boys. And I know exactly what it feels like to come home from the hospital, holding a new life, while no one thinks to ask how you are doing.
Even after having my rainbow baby — a pregnancy that followed loss and carried all the weight that comes with it — I found myself navigating the fourth trimester essentially alone. Living abroad, far from family, far from the community that would have surrounded me at home.
The change in body size. The hormones that nobody warned me would feel quite like that. The pelvic floor that needed rehabilitation I didn't know how to access. The sleep deprivation that slowly erodes who you are. The anxiety of whether you are doing any of this right. Whether you are enough.
I built Her Ruby because every new mother deserves the village she has always been told it takes. Not just as a nice idea but as something real - at her door, in her language, and tailored for her lifestyle need.