Matrescence Made Clear: How to Become the Woman Who Is Becoming Your Baby’s Mother

Becoming a mother is not a crash. It’s a becoming. Matrescence, the developmental transformation into motherhood, was named in 1973 and still isn’t a household word. Amy P. Fletcher’s guide gives it a full framework, the six-stage Matrescence Stage Map, from Anticipation through Flourishing, for every woman standing at this threshold not yet knowing that what she’s living through has a name.