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    What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood
    What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood
    What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood
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    What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood

    Written by Alexandra Sacks and Catherine Birndorf

    Narrated by Cynthia Farrell

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    Your guide to the emotions of pregnancy and early motherhood, from two of America’s top reproductive psychiatrists.

    When you are pregnant, you get plenty of advice about your growing body and developing baby. Yet so much about motherhood happens in your head. What everyone really wants to know: Is this normal?

    -Even after months of trying, is it normal to panic after finding out you’re pregnant?
    -Is it normal not to feel love at first sight for your baby?
    -Is it normal to fight with your parents and partner?
    -Is it normal to feel like a breastfeeding failure?
    -Is it normal to be zonked by “mommy brain?”

    In What No One Tells You, two of America’s top reproductive psychiatrists reassure you that the answer is yes. With thirty years of combined experience counseling new and expectant mothers, they provide a psychological and hormonal backstory to the complicated emotions that women experience, and show why it’s natural for “matrescence”—the birth of a mother—to be as stressful and transformative a period as adolescence.

    Here, finally, is the first-ever practical guide to help new mothers feel less guilt and more self-esteem, less isolation and more kinship, less resentment and more intimacy, less exhaustion and more pleasure, and learn other tips to navigate the ups and downs of this exciting, demanding time
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateApr 23, 2019
    ISBN9781508283850
    Author

    Alexandra Sacks

    Alexandra Sacks, MD, is a reproductive psychiatrist affiliated with the Women’s Program at the Columbia University Medical Center and a candidate at the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research. A leading expert in “matrescence,” she is known for popularizing the concept in her TED talk with more than one million views worldwide, and in her New York Times article “The Birth of a Mother,” the number-one most read piece of 2017 for the “Well Family” section, where she is a regular contributor. Dr. Sacks was a scholar at the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry and serves on the American Psychoanalytic Association advisory board for media education. Her work on matrescence and “mommy brain” has been featured in TIME magazine, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and on NPR. Dr. Sacks hosts a motherhood podcast from Gimlet Media and is the author, with Catherine Birndorf, of What No One Tells You. Learn more at AlexandraSacksMD.com and @AlexandraSacksMD.

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      As a new mom i felt so validated listen to this audio book.