Status Updates From Matrescence: On the Metamor...

It is interesting that both the Qur’an and the Bible contain a much stronger sense of the physical and psychological experience of matrescence than our dominant secular discourse. As the scholar Irene Oh shows, the Qur’an tells Muslims to revere their mothers because of the ‘hardship’ they go through to give birth and wean children.

I feel sick, angry, terrified and proud. Also thankful there will be a good deal of distance between this book and any future pregnancy. Also considering elective cesarean if it means I never have to hear the word anal fissure.