The Start of Something New

I find myself in THIS LIFE STAGE. A life stage for which I am not properly prepared. A life stage in which I am floundering about and uncertain of my own self and my own body in a way I have never previously experienced.

When I reflect on the prior times of tumultuous change, puberty and pregnancy particularly popping to the front of my mind, There is an overabundance of information. There are "What to Expect When You're Expecting" books and blogs and websites, there are appointments upon appointments with the OB/GYN, there are movies, there are TV shows. And while the information is not necessarily always accurate, and literally every person's experiences are unique and cannot be encapsulated in any one communication, there is an abundance of information and sources of information on the topics.

Which makes the complete and utter silence and in fact lack of information and discussion on peri-menopause feel puzzling or shameful or awkward.

There are small niches of conversation. Friends chatting over coffee, craft nights, wine nights, girls' weekends. But the overwhelming majority of the information is passed along in these small passing conversations. Only recently is there an advertisement on general TV for a medication for hot flashes.

Unfortunately, I have been cursed with a characteristic that means I am the opposite of many people which means that when there is a topic that is embarrassing or awkward and most people would avoid talking about it openly, it ends up being the very thing that I lead with. So it seems quite fitting, to begin this blog with the very first post stating that I am, in fact, a peri-menopausal, mother of three, stay at home mother, who intends to use this blog to process and publish my current stage of life and the stages of life I have passed through.

Welcome to my diary.