‘At 45, I grieved the idea of motherhood. Then, by pure fluke, I was pregnant’
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‘At 45, I grieved the idea of motherhood. Then, by pure fluke, I was pregnant’
I understand better now why humans created certain arbitrary life goals. Getting married, having a kid, buying a house, retirement. All these things are “supposed to happen” at certain stages, in part because of biology. But surely they’ve also served to give us markers of time, to tell our brains that we’re aging even when we don’t feel it. I have
... See more‘Do you mind either way?’ The woman behind the till has scanned my box of Colgate and bottle of nit shampoo, but her hand pauses over the pregnancy test. My eyes flick quickly up to hers. I have four children already; asking me if I mind, as I buy a test that will seal my fate, feels way too intimate. What if I had been a different person, in diffe
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Unlike other cultures, which treat becoming a mother as a major, traumatic life crisis, with special social rites and rituals, Western societies had been failing to recognize matrescence as a major transition: a transition that involves a whole spectrum of emotional and existential ruptures, a transition that can make women ill, a transition in whi
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