Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

Science reporting meets memoir meets why the hell has no one ever given a damn about the most dramatic hormonal event in human biology before?! Essential reading for anyone who has ever given birth / or been born.

"I thought early motherhood would be gentle, beatific, pacific, tranquil: bathed in a soft light. But actually it was hard-core, edgy, gnarly. It wasn't pale pink; it was brown of shit and red of blood. And it was the most political experience of my life, rife with conflict, domination, drama, struggle, and power.”