Now that you’re a mom, do you ever look around and feel like your life is totally unrecognizable? Where you used to have predictability, routine, and autonomy, now you have a mushy blob of time and space and don’t even know which way is up? We get it.

When a mom comes to us and says that she doesn’t even know who she is right now, we get started with these two amazing words: Anchor points. One of our very favorite frameworks to help moms make sense of early motherhood, anchor points help us feel like ourselves no matter what blobby chaos is swirling around us.

During pregnancy the uterus expands from the size of an orange to the size of a watermelon. The round ligaments help support the uterus and thus as baby grows and the uterus expands it puts additional stress and demand on the ligaments resulting in pain.