feelings on AFTER

I am currently in the third chapter of after. I related to these chapters a little because I sort of understand the pain the girl was going through after she had given birth. In the novel she was saying how she couldn’t hold conversations or really focus on what was going on. I related to this because after I had my son for the first twenty four hours I had no idea what was going on around me. I remember the doctor talking to me and telling me about the medication I was on. Every time he would ask me if I understand I would wake up and look at him smile and go back to sleep. In the novel the girl was so exhausted she couldn’t move or do anything for herself. That’s the same way I was after giving birth. I felt like I had no control over myself. Now that I’m getting deeper in to the book I realize that the girl didn’t have the best life at home. I don’t really understand how her mother didn’t notice she was pregnant. I personally think that her mother was more interested in men than she was in her daughter. That’s the main reason I think she didn’t notice. Because a real mother would notice a change in her daughter in the first couple months. This book is really getting interesting to me and I have a lot of questions going through my head about the book hopefully I finish it quick.