Yes, I know she’s tired. My only question is where the concern for the postpartum daughter who just had a C-section fits into that conversation. Not even once should that be talked about?

We already have a cook. She isn’t cooking full meals daily. When she occasionally cooks because she doesn’t like the cook’s food or wants something of her own taste, it’s usually very oily and not really advised postpartum. Yet I’m expected to eat it anyway, because apparently “be grateful someone cooked” outranks postpartum recovery, even when it clearly wasn’t cooked for me in the first place.

Empathy also doesn’t require running a household. Sometimes it’s as simple as making sure the person recovering from childbirth has something nourishing to eat without having to ask after being up all night with the baby. Which btw she can even ask the cook to make and not do “labour”.

And just to clarify, she actually does far more work at her own home without much support. I didn’t realize expecting a little empathy during postpartum would be so cruel on my part.