6 Months of Writing: From Pregnancy to Postpartum

Consistently Writing Throughout Every Season of Motherhood

Mar 23, 2025

6 Months of Writing

As I can gather, there are 2 ways of writing consistently through pregnancy, birth and the first three months of postpartum:

You either pre-write your newsletter throughout your pregnancy and schedule them for after, or
You stay writing throughout it all.

Now I never was one for during work pre-hand. Call it lazyness or stubborness, but I simply cannot write more than one newsletter a week. My focus will be lacking, and I will end up with two not very good letters, and not any of them good enough to be shared.

Though I wish I could do the work beforehand, it was never really an option to me.

I write with the seasons, and I write stories from our everyday at our 100 year old Danish homestead. Squeezing more than one story out of me, makes my creative flood run dry.

Trust me, I have tried.

So I opted for the 2. option: I wanted to keep writing through it all.

As I have written about before, I gave up on my writing after becoming a mother for the first time, three years ago.

But this time, in becoming a mother of two, I had set up my mind to keep writing.

As a matter of fact, I made a pact with myself: I am not allowed to give up on my writing.

I wanted writing to be something I did for myself, as an extension of the way I show up in this world. I wanted writing to be at the core of me, my motherhood and my everyday life.

Now, this is not a post where I give my many tips to how you can stay consistency in your writing, because the truth is, there is no easy way, and each writer is different.

Sometimes I think sheer will-power and the aforementioned stubbornness is the only thing that made me write consistently throughout it all.

This is neither a post where I praise the mothers that keep writing and look down on the mothers that don’t. I completely empathize with not having the time or mental space to write, as I have been there myself just three years ago.

I will, however, tell you what I did do differently this time:

In the autumn, when I was in my second trimester, I did two things that laid the foundation for my writing routine:

I started writing on Substack and comitted to writiting one neswletter a week.
I began The Artist Way by Julia Cameron and thereby begun the habit of writing 3 morning pages every morning.

These are the two writing habits that I believe made it possible for me to keep writing continuously.

So that, come winter, I was completely in the habit of grabbing my journal with my coffee in the morning, and writing whatever comes to mind, in my morning pages.

When the labour began I started writing a bit throughout the day, instead of only in the morning, and this has continued throughout all postpartum. I simply do not have half an hour to myself in the morning anymore, but at the end of the day, I still have, if not three, then just one page of writing.

Coming into the winter and third trimester, I don’t believe I really had any idea of what was going to happen to my newsletter (thanks pregnancy brain). But out of sheer autopilot, I still found myself thinking of ideas and wanting to write.

Habit allowed me to publish consistently throughout all winter. Though I turned down my publishing frequency to bi-weekly and let loose on my timing, I still wrote and published writing consistently throughout the season of winter and new motherhood.

Habit is what allowed me, in spring, to up my frequency once again and get back to my weekly schedule.

I have by no means “bounced back” to who I was before I became a mother of two, and I never will. I am forever changed, but my writing routine hasn’t.

I will not be “bouncing back” into my writing, because I never stopped writing.

I kept my promise to myself, and the video and this newsletter is my proof and my pride.

I am a writer through all of the seasons. Pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Autumn, winter and spring. A writer, through-and-through.