What Is Matrescence? Why Becoming a Mother Changes Everything - Kelsey Green, DNP

Podcast: Fourth Trimester: The First Months and Beyond | Parenting | Newborn Baby | Postpartum | Doula · Sarah Roselinda Trott

Opublikowano: 2026-09-05

The first step to creating change is often creating awareness - and by giving the shift into motherhood a name, we are raising awareness about how profound the change is. Becoming a mother can bring enormous love alongside uncertainty, grief for a former life, identity shifts, and a new mental load. Giving this transition a name can make it easier to understand what is changing and ask for the support you need. Nurse educator and maternal mental-health researcher Kelsey Green, DNP, joins Esther and me to explain what matrescence means, why it continues as children...