Amanda Stone’s Reviews > Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood > Status Update
Amanda Stone
is 99% done
been listening to the audiobook but ran out of time, it got returned. so so powerful and so important and needed to be written - also incredibly depressing and horrible, the descriptions of her birth made me almost vomit at the bus stop, but this book is full of stuff that i wish all the mothers i know knew before having kids, i want everyone i know to read it
— Oct 23, 2025 12:12AM
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Amanda Stone
is 99% done
love the bringing together of scientific biological features of becoming a mother, the emotional landscape, and the socio-cultural context and way our insane society impacts mothers. such an important book, wish i could make every mother and potential mother i know read it! although it’s extremely repetitive, not structured particularly well, and completely fails to mention queer parenthood and gender nonconformity
— 20 hours, 54 min ago
