Welcome to Overlap Season
Your body isn’t
broken.
It’s doing two things
at once.
Postpartum. Perimenopause. At the same time, in your 40s — and nobody wrote the manual for this. Until now.
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“I thought I was just exhausted from the baby. Turns out I was also entering perimenopause. Both at 39.”
night sweats
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low libido
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which hormone is it?
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Every issue covers the intersection of postpartum recovery and perimenopause — the symptoms, the research, the doctor visits that go nowhere, and the identity shift nobody prepares you for. Written by a mom who’s living it, for the moms who finally want to understand what’s happening inside their own bodies.
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Postpartum vs. Perimenopause: How to Tell the Difference When You’re Over 40
The symptoms are almost identical. The causes are completely different. Here’s how to figure out which hormones are actually behind the chaos — and why it matters for treatment.
Nobody Told Me I Could Be Postpartum and Perimenopausal at the Same Time
I spent months blaming myself for not bouncing back. Turns out my body wasn’t broken — it was navigating two hormonal transitions at once. Here’s what that actually feels like.
What to Actually Say to Your Doctor When You Don’t Know Which Hormones Are Winning
Walking into an appointment unsure if you’re postpartum or perimenopausal is disorienting. Here’s a real script for advocating for yourself when everything feels like a moving target.
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I’m almost 40,
postpartum, probably
perimenopausal, and
absolutely fine.
I’m Ashley — an Arizona mom, married for ten years, raising a spirited 5-year-old and a 10-month-old who still hasn’t figured out that 3am is for sleeping. I started Overlap Season because I couldn’t find a single space online that was honest about what it feels like to be postpartum and approaching perimenopause at the same time.
The brain fog. The night sweats I couldn’t explain. The mood swings I kept apologizing for. The doctor’s appointments where I left with more questions than answers. I spent months convinced something was wrong with me — until I realized I wasn’t broken. I was just in the overlap season. And so are a lot of other women who deserve to know that.
This is the space I wish had existed when I needed it most. Welcome.
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in Arizona
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