Reviewed by Rama Gaind.
By Ali Young, Wiley, $29.99.
Welcome to the amazing awesomeness of motherhood!
This book by chiropractor Dr Ali Young is for working mum’s everywhere. In fact, it’s for you if you’ve been searching for health and wondering how to get back to your self again.
Motherhood is many things rolled into one. It’s the chaos and the calm, the joy and the frustration, the overwhelm and the total fun! It’s the love that you can’t fathom for these little beings, who can become all encompassing, but a love that is also 100 per cent too much at times. A love that is expected to fall out of the sky the second your child is born, which happens for some, but that also takes time to build and grow for many.
For some, motherhood is a welcome interlude in a busy life, something that has been hoped and dreamed about for years. A pause in a career trajectory, a family situation or a planned event that has finally come to fruition. Our motherhood can spin in so many ways. For others, it may be more of a surprise. Maybe not planned but not unwanted.
Whether it’s a shock pregnancy and motherhood journey, or the whole experience of becoming a mother is nothing like the picture it’s been painted as – it’s a massive shift. This shift is called ‘matrescence’: the glorious shift from a woman to a mother.
“Working with mums so intently over the past 20-odd years from preconception, through matrescence and into motherhood, and especially working with their kids, I’ve discovered many common themes around support, annoyances, grievances and knowledge blocks that mums would like true and current information about.”
Divided into three parts, this book shares some research if you’re the kind of mum who likes to know about things. You should find a lot of direction here.
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