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motherhood
not a parenting book — a book for the woman inside the mother.
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inside this book
read the first page
Nobody tells you the second birth in the room is yours. When my daughters were born — two of them, minutes apart — I understood within a week that a woman had also been delivered that day, and that nobody had packed a bag for her. This mini book is about that woman.
It is not a parenting book. There is no advice here about sleep, food, screens, or discipline; you have enough of that, and most of it argues with itself anyway. This is a book about what happens to you — the shifting of identity, the doubling of the heart, the strange grief that can sit right next to the deepest love without cancelling it.
— page 4 of 26, as printed. the rest reads like this.
all 26 pages at a glance
“a child arrives all at once. a mother arrives for years.”
this book is for you if
- love and exhaustion sit at your same table
- you miss the woman you were, and feel guilty for it
- nobody gave you the word matrescence
what's inside
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quiet questions
is this a journal with blank pages?
no — this is a written book. essays, questions, a film, small routines. nothing to fill in.
how do I get it?
instant PDF download + a browser flipbook link. opens on any phone, tablet or laptop.
what if I'm not sure it's for me?
everything is on this page — real pages from inside, the exact contents, a reader's words. read them slowly, then decide.
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