Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

“Science reporting meets memoir meets why the hell has no one ever given a damn about the most dramatic hormonal event in human biology before?! Essential reading for anyone who has ever given birth / or been born. "I thought early motherhood would be gentle, beatific, pacific, tranquil: bathed in a soft light. But actually it was hard-core, edgy, gnarly. It wasn't pale pink; it was brown of shit and red of blood. And it was the most political experience of my life, rife with conflict, domination, drama, struggle, and power.””

“The top of my reading list for anyone becoming a parent. It was the most useful, thoughtful, eye opening thing I read while pregnant and made me feel less crazy and not alone in my worries, feelings, and experiences as I became a mother.”