5 Minute Freewrite - Pill

Find the prompt here!
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-64-5-minute-freewrite-prompt-pill

She woke up wanting to take a pill. Nothing too dramatic, just an ibuprofen. She had a bit of a headache. She wasn't sleeping well ever since she had the baby. It kept her up throughout the night, wanting to nurse at irregular intervals. Taking the pill made her think about taking The Pill. She'd been on the pill for nearly seven years before stopping to try and get pregnant. One pill a day kept the baby away. Funny how easy it was, and then how easy it was to get pregnant when she stopped. And now here was this child that depended on her to survive. She was a transportable life giver.

It was her birthday. 36 years ago she'd been someone else's burden, like her baby was hers now. Burden had such a negative connotation, but she didn't mean it that way. It was more the literal sense of it--a constant weight for her to carry. Not that she always had to carry it, but the weight of the life-giving aspect of breast-feeding was a psychological burden as well. She wasn't resentful of any of it, just mindful of it.

That's my first five minute freewrite in a long, long while. A lot of it is true to my life, though I wasn't really thinking that the "She" of the story is me. But today is my birthday, and I don't get nearly as much sleep since I had Lochlan, our first and only, on November 7th. He is a burden I gladly bear.