Sofia
@soficip
Sofia
@soficip
The truth is that motherhood is a hero's journey. For most of us it's not a journey outward, to the most fantastic and farthest-flung places, but inward, downward, to the deepest parts of your strength, to the innermost buried core of everything you are made of but didn't know was there.
We have known for some time that the long-term health of mothers and their children is impacted by the physical journey of pregnancy. We now also know that the long-term health of mothers and their children is impacted by the physical journey that takes place after pregnancy.
Pregnancy brings about the birth of not one but two new beings. Mother is not a fixed identity; we are dynamic and grow along with our young. The