I send my mother 1.5 million pesos monthly for my postpartum wife. Coming home early, I found my wife eating spoiled rice with fish heads. Furious, I confronted my mom, who sneered, “She doesn’t deserve better.” Then, I checked the family safe and found…

broths, dark leafy greens, and specialized dairy. Without this precise alchemy of rest and fuel, her body would cannibalize its own reserves to produce milk, inevitably leading to a total systemic collapse.

I absorbed his directives as if they were holy scripture. I cataloged every vitamin, every dietary requirement into my phone. I personally procured continue reading …