New Mother (M.A)

The Poem "New Mother" by Sharon Olds is 21 verses long and has no rhyming scheme. The poem describes the poet's experience of being a new mother and how it has affected her sex life. She starts the poem by describing how her husband or lover is kissing her passionately after a week that their child was born. The tone of this poem though is very harsh as if the poet is taken aback and scarred after the birth and is not ready to resume her sex life yet. But when she starts to "throb" like in verse 7, it could be of pain or even passion and this makes a segue to her experience of giving birth.
Her "sex had been torn" which means her genital muscles and skin had been stretched from inside by the baby's head and how she got stitches as well and they were bothering her. She talks about the initial stage of being torn apart in the genital area and how that feeling doesn't go away, just how, once you lose a love, you think you will never love again.
She then goes on how her lover or husband starts kissing her after she gave birth and how he was erotically charged with the words "your sex dry and big" . She compares herself to a wounded animal because of all the blood and stitches, which is a metaphor in this poem. The end of the poem has a more softer and calmer tone, a bit relieved as well where she describes how her lover is patient and will stay with her and wait until she is ready.