Welcome back to the Articharm podcast. I'm AJ.

And I'm Johnny.

In the weeks following Mother's Day, Johnny and I caught ourselves talking a lot about the importance of parenthood.

It's a part of life we pretty much all experience as a child, as a parent, or as both.

And although we talk a little bit about parenting on the show,

this month we decided to focus a little more on parenthood because many of you are either already

parents or hopefully will someday become parents.

So we've put together two episodes honoring parents starting with this one right here.

Mother's Day is observed in many countries and today we're going to talk about motherhood

with an expert in the field, Dr. Alexandra Sachs.

She is a reproductive psychiatrist at Columbia University Medical Center and host of a new podcast

called Motherhood Sessions. And she is a leading expert in what we're going to be talking with her

about today, which is mattresses. The transition of woman goes through when she becomes a mother.

Yes, you might be thinking, AJ, we call that pregnancy, but mattresses is more than that.

And to help us understand this, Dr. Sachs uses adolescence as an analogy.

For starters, they're pronounced the same, but just as teenagers go through hormonal change and

are reshaping of identity, mattresses operates in a similar fashion.

And Dr. Sachs roughly defines mattresses as something that starts at beginning of pregnancy

ending at some point in the early stages of taking care of her baby.

But she also makes the argument that mattresses is broader than just the changes that a mother

experiences. Again, like adolescence, this phase impacts an entire household as a father,

partner, sister, brother, being prepared and knowing the challenges and rewards that come with

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