Certain factors impact each woman's
experience of early motherhood, but I can't guess where a new mom lands on the spectrum without getting to know her better.
Looking back, the physical pain from delivering a baby feels insignificant compared to the
hardship of early motherhood, especially the first 6 weeks.
Drawing on academic research in psychology, biology, philosophy and anthropology, she sheds light on the hidden
emotions of early motherhood, and reveals the deep and widespread damage artificial feeding can have on a mother's confidence in her body, her mothering and in other women.
Time manages to smudge the sharp
angles of early motherhood, which is often filled with those overwhelming moments, making it feel like, hey, it wasn't so bad.
I spent
much of my early motherhood obsessed with her Mango Mama site (which I consider an early form of blogging) and was shocked when she had her very public breakdown.
Her piece «The Long Road,» cataloging her humorous journey through the
sleeplessness of early motherhood, is being published in the upcoming anthology, «Motherhood May Cause Drowsiness.»
That makes «Tully» a valuable antidote to a lot of the usual
representations of early motherhood — and valuable especially to would - be fathers, who may have some Drew in them.
Like most moms, I could have used these mantras in the pinched
moments of early motherhood when it wasn't at all clear what to do or how to do it.
«My intention is to portray 3 different women in various
stages of early motherhood, each a fictional testimony of everyday ups and downs.
Moms often tell me, that just knowing they had a place to go each week would break up the monotonous
days of early motherhood.
The desire for paternal involvement also appears to be an influential factor; fathers were either seen as able to alleviate the daily
grind of early motherhood, or there was a desire for «shared parenting».
That's why, while I know that breastfeeding isn't the be-all end -
all of early motherhood, I'm still really proud to h...
That's why, while I know that breastfeeding isn't the be-all end -
all of early motherhood, I'm still really proud to have done so, and to have nursed in lots of places every breastfeeding mom should be proud to feed in.
Infant feeding has an important place within women's experiences of maternity care in the UK and, more generally, within women's experiences
of early motherhood (Murcott, 1993).
In the first category, participants seem keen to encourage fathers to share in the «daily grind» (Graham, 1983)
of early motherhood.
The desire for paternal involvement also seemed to be another influential factor; fathers were either seen as able to alleviate the daily grind
of early motherhood, or there was a desire for «shared parenting».