We ate pasta with homemade tomato sauce for weeks, but the letters my mother-in-law left have stayed with us the longest.
In The Fourth Trimester, we ask parents: What meal nourished you after welcoming your baby? This month it’s never-ending tomato sauce from author Anna Noyes. While I labored for nearly 50 hours, my mother-in-law Karen cooked and canned a giant batch of marinara with the last of August’s harvest. She calmed her nerves by roasting tomatoes and chopping onions, garlic, and peppers from her garden.
” I devoured the pasta in bed, where my midwives had advised me to rest, not worried if sauce spattered the sheets. I have never been so hungry. My left thigh, nerve-damaged by the birth, remained numb. My leg had buckled while carrying Isla into our house for the first time. My episiotomy stitches were slow to mend. My whole body ached. Our bedroom was on the second floor, removed from the kitchen and heart of the house.
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