Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood

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There is a trap for any critic reviewing books about motherhood who is also a mother: the trap of “this is not how it was for me”. Yet the permitted language of motherhood – phrases like, “feeling a bit tired” and, “the baby blues” – does nothing but diminish the experience. A part of me deeply aches that almost every facet of western society is designed to erase and sweep childbirth under the carpet.

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Almost three years into my own matrescence, this book is the single most powerful, life-changing, heartachingly healing thing I have been given. I originally applied the term to maternal mental health in 2008 from anthropology to normalize mothers' experiences and offer them a nonpathological description. The word made me feel so seen and helped make sense of what was going on in my own life outside of parenting,” Williams said. I am both depleted, but also learning new wellsprings of patience within me that I didn’t know that I have,” Athan said.Our graduate-level courses and certificate program in Reproductive Psychology are the first of their kind. As in her previous book, 2020’s Losing Eden (an examination of our disconnection from nature), Jones’s writing is hungry to impart knowledge.

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The best book I've ever read about motherhood' Jude Rogers, Observer 'I kept scribbling in the margins: 'We need to know this stuff! I believe matrescence is focused on the woman and the act of mothering is focused on the child,” she said. We indeed found an overemphasis on perinatal psychopathology, few examples of normative adjustment, and the need for a unifying theory akin to adolescence. Matrescence covers socio-economic; historical; political and scientific elements of motherhood- which was insightful and so well interwoven.There’s always another theory on how to improve your parenting style and raise a child better and improve child outcomes,” Athan said.