The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
added by Alex Dobrenko and · updated 3mo ago
added by Alex Dobrenko and · updated 3mo ago
But just as surely, another part of me wanted to manage the threat of his potential independence by subsuming him into myself. It was tempting to treat the baby as a prop for my own narratives of motherhood rather than as an independent person in his own right. But babies give no quarter to our preconceived ideas of what mothering them
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