Celeste Yvonne Just Wants To Talk About It

"Celeste Yvonne has been writing and talking about motherhood for a decade. The Oakland native now calls Reno home, alongside her husband and two kids, ages 9 and 11. She went viral in 2018 for a post about those dark, sleepless nights in the early postpartum days. Since then, she's written and talked about her sobriety journey and the mental load, through the lens of being a woman today."

"I started writing about motherhood for fun in 2016 when I was pregnant with my second child. We had had a miscarriage prior to that. And there was this standard rule that you're not supposed to talk about your pregnancy in the first trimester, but I was pregnant with a rainbow baby and I had no one to tell about it. And I was scared and I was excited."

"And so I started writing an anonymous blog about it. And one thing led to another, and I started writing about motherhood once my second child was born and I put my name to it. And things were fine and dandy until I had a post blow up. It was called Dear Husband. And it's a post I wrote in those really dark, sleepless nights when you're nursing a baby."

Celeste Yvonne has chronicled motherhood for a decade and lives in Reno with her husband and two children, ages nine and eleven. She became widely known in 2018 after a candid piece about dark, sleepless early postpartum nights resonated broadly. Her work also addresses a sobriety journey and the unequal mental load placed on mothers, framed by contemporary gender expectations. She began sharing experiences in 2016 while pregnant with a second child after a miscarriage, initially via an anonymous blog because she had no one to tell about the pregnancy. A viral "Dear Husband" piece followed after personal reconciliation, prompting deeper focus on how parenting labor is distributed and praised.

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