Reflections on birth, matrescence and the profound transformation of becoming a mother. Written from the threshold, as a doula, a practitioner and a woman navigating this journey herself.
I have been at Shifrah and Puah Maternity Center in Mbale, Uganda for a month now, and I leave next week. I had come with a question that has been forming in me since I started this work, a question about whether matrescence, the profound transformation of becoming a mother, is truly universal. Whether the psychological and identity-level dimensions of that passage move through every woman regardless of where she lives, how she births, or what cultural container holds her thr
