Matrescence. ‘The process of becoming a mother, which anthropologists call “matrescence,” has been largely unexplored in the medical community,’ Sacks writes. ‘Instead of focusing on the woman’s identity transition, more research is focused on how the baby turns out. But a woman’s story, in addition to how her psychology impacts her parenting, is

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Pregnancy feels like this: like standing at the edge of something cosmical and unknown, holding tenderness and terror in the same soft hands. It is to be both creator and creature, to build a body while surrendering your own. It is to become a home.