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Matrescence
As I tried to reorient myself, I realized how much of my angst had emanated from an existential crisis. Not in the clichéd sense that I couldn’t find meaning in my life; rather, that the weight of my choices and responsibilities, combined with a new, sustained confrontation with mortality, was bamboozling. This was a world tilted.
Lucy Jones • Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
What I Really Wish I Knew Before Motherhood
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When writer Miranda Rake met British nature writer and science journalist Lucy Jones in 2018, they were both nine months into motherhood, both reading furiously to decode our postpartum haze. They both, separately, simultaneously, stumbled across a word that contained much of what we were looking for: “matrescence.” Jones let the word pull her down... See more
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