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Becoming a mother is a process — matrescence, I can’t quite bring myself to call it — and not usually a smooth one.
To All the Moms I’ve Ignored Before Meaghan O’Connell 2019
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She was severely sleep-deprived when she read an article in the New York Times in which the reproductive psychiatrist Alexandra Sacks described the process of becoming a mother using a term Jones hadn’t heard before: matrescence.
“Matrescence,” and the Transformations of Motherhood Condé Nast 2024
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