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“The critical transition period which has been missed is MATRESCENCE, the time of mother-becoming,’ writes Raphael. ‘During this process, this rite of passage, changes occur in a woman’s physical state, in her status within the group, in her emotional life, in her focus of daily activity, in”
― Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood
― Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood
“Time started to bend. I was carrying the future inside me. I would learn that I was also carrying the eggs, already within my baby’s womb, that could go on to partly form my potential grandchildren. My future grandchildren were in some way inside me, just as part of me spent time in the womb of my grandmother. I was carrying inside me a pool of amniotic fluid, which was once rivers, lakes and rain. I was carrying a third more blood, which was once soil and stars and lichen.2 The baby was formed of the atoms of the earth, of the past and the future. Every atom in her body existed when the earth formed 4.5 billion years ago. She will live for many years, I hope, when I have returned to the ground. She will live on the earth when I am gone. Time bends.”
― Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood
― Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood
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