The fourth trimester
Alanis has shared other photos detailing her recovery from pregnancy and birth, as well as her breastfeeding journey with Winter. She notes that the new parenting gig doesn’t always come naturally.
“Snug as a bug in a milky rug,” she captioned one adding the hashtag #notalwayseasypeasy.
Another more recent photo shows her feeding Winter as her hubby kisses the back of their baby’s head.
“The fourth trimester,” she wrote alongside it.
Alanis has previously dealt with bouts of postnatal depression, and it’s clear that she’s doing everything she can to stay well both physically and mentally. She shared that she was reading postpartum care book The First Forty Days and seems to be getting plenty of rest.
Alanis Morissette is getting candid about her journey to becoming a mother of three.
Alanis Morissette is getting candid about her journey to becoming a mother of three.
The Canadian singer announced she’s pregnant with her third child with her husband, Mario «Souleye» Treadway, in March. The two are already parents to an 8-year-old son, Ever Imre, and 2-year-old daughter, Onyx Solace. In a new interview with Self magazine, Morissette says she’s always wanted to have three children, and opens up about suffering multiple miscarriages while planning their family.
«I felt so much grief and fear,» she notes. «I chased and prayed for pregnancy and learned so much about my body and biochemistry and immunity and gynecology through the process. It was a torturous learning and loss-filled and persevering process.»
«I had done tentacles of investigation on everything, from hormones to physicality, every rabbit hole one could go down to chase answers,» she continues. «I have different doctors who laugh at the thickness of my files. So, for me I’ve tried every different version from heavily self-medicating, to formal allopathic medications, to now.»
Morissette is now carrying her third child at 45 years old.
«When I chased my health in a different way, from multiple angles — extensive consistent blood work monitoring to trauma recovery work to multiple doctor and midwife appointments to many tests and surgeries and investigations, things shifted,» she shares.
The singer has been open in the past about experiencing crippling postpartum depression after welcoming Ever, and her depression returning and worsening after she gave birth to Onyx. This time around, she says she plans to tackle it by not waiting too long before getting diagnosed.
«Not singularly relying on myself to diagnose myself is key,» she explains. «Because the first time around I waited.»
Later, she talks about how she’s parenting her kids — particularly, how she’s setting clear boundaries with them.
«I talk about this with my kids a lot, the four boundaries being: You can’t tell me what I’m thinking, you can’t tell me what I’m feeling, you can’t f**king touch my body/you can’t do anything with my body, and don’t touch my stuff,» she shares. «And those are the main ones. Literally if ever there’s a little moment between Onyx and Ever I’ll just go ‘which of the four was it?’ You can’t slap her, you can’t grab his things.»
In April, Pink also opened up about suffering multiple miscarriages, the first one being when she was 17 years old. Watch the video below for more:
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“Everything feels heavy”
Speaking to Self Magazine during her pregnancy earlier this year, Alanis explained a little more about her PND experience.
“For me I would just wake up and feel like I was covered in tar and it wasn’t the first time I’d experienced depression so I just thought Oh, well, this feels familiar, I’m depressed, I think,” Alanis said.
“And then simultaneously, my personal history of depression where it was so normalized for me to be in the quicksand, as I call it, or in the tar. It does feel like tar, like everything feels heavy.”
She told the mag that she waited way too long to get help after Ever and Onyx’s births and has enlisted those closest to her to keep watch for the early signs with this bub.
“This time I’m going to wait four minutes,” she told Self. “I have said to my friends, I want you to not necessarily go by the words I’m saying and as best as I can, I’ll try to be honest, but I can’t personally rely on the degree of honesty if I reference the last two experiences.”
Winter mornings
Late last week, she shared a particularly gorgeous photo of her family. It showed her hubby Mario “Souleye” Treadway, the couple’s eight-year-old son Ever and three-year-old daughter Onyx snuggled up in bed.
An absolutely beaming Alanis is snuggled up too, wearing a dressing gown and breastfeeding baby Winter.
“Mornings. ,” she captioned the photo which her 400,000+ followers responded to with delight.
“Love this so much!!! Way to go, mama,” one posted.
“There is so much beauty in reality,” another commented.
“You look so happy and that makes me happy,” someone else wrote.
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The fourth trimester
Alanis has shared other photos detailing her recovery from pregnancy and birth, as well as her breastfeeding journey with Winter. She notes that the new parenting gig doesn’t always come naturally.
“Snug as a bug in a milky rug,” she captioned one adding the hashtag #notalwayseasypeasy.
Another more recent photo shows her feeding Winter as her hubby kisses the back of their baby’s head.
“The fourth trimester,” she wrote alongside it.
Alanis has previously dealt with bouts of postnatal depression, and it’s clear that she’s doing everything she can to stay well both physically and mentally. She shared that she was reading postpartum care book The First Forty Days and seems to be getting plenty of rest.
“Everything feels heavy”
Speaking to Self Magazine during her pregnancy earlier this year, Alanis explained a little more about her PND experience.
“For me I would just wake up and feel like I was covered in tar and it wasn’t the first time I’d experienced depression so I just thought Oh, well, this feels familiar, I’m depressed, I think,” Alanis said.
“And then simultaneously, my personal history of depression where it was so normalized for me to be in the quicksand, as I call it, or in the tar. It does feel like tar, like everything feels heavy.”
She told the mag that she waited way too long to get help after Ever and Onyx’s births and has enlisted those closest to her to keep watch for the early signs with this bub.
“This time I’m going to wait four minutes,” she told Self. “I have said to my friends, I want you to not necessarily go by the words I’m saying and as best as I can, I’ll try to be honest, but I can’t personally rely on the degree of honesty if I reference the last two experiences.”