TMI

I will probably never meet Ruth David Konigsberg, but thanks to the opening paragraph of this review by her, I feel like I know all the important stuff already:
"Being a parent was an intensely physical state—postpartum fluid was still being flushed out of my body in night sweats, and I was so painfully constipated that on doctor’s orders I had to send my husband down to the corner for a Fleet enema (a household first!)."
Ruth, if you're reading this, come on over some day. You can tell me all about cabbage leaves and their importance in new motherhood so long as I get to bore you with stories about the ant that wandered around inside my plaster cast. Deal?