When did you first hear the word, the tressants, and how did you feel when you first heard it?

Oh my God, it was huge for me. It was so big. So I remember my baby was about eight, nine, ten months or so. I was line-sided by my early motherhood experience. I'd moved to a new town.

I was very lonely. My husband was away working long hours. I didn't really have a support network.

None of my close friends were having kids at the same time. I felt like I'd lost myself and I didn't know

who I was, what I was doing. I loved my baby, but I couldn't seem to soothe her very well.

I thought that there was a maternal instinct and I just wasn't very good at it. I'd had all these

difficulties for feeding and I was desperate really. And I didn't understand good at it. I'd had all these difficulties for feeding and I was desperate really

and I didn't understand what was happening to me. You know everyone says enjoy every minute and I thought

there must be something wrong with me if I'm finding it this hard every day. It was just it was so

helpful to read this word. Don't you're going to start me

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Times by the reproductive psychiatrist Alexandra Sacks. And it really pulled together everything I was

seeing and feeling. And she talked about this word that anthropologists used some matressants.

And she described it as the experience

of becoming a mother and how it changes us physically, psychologically, emotionally, our identity,

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