What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood, Sacks Alexandra, Birndorf Catherine

In What No One Tells You, two of Americas top reproductive psychiatrists provide a road map for mothers-to-be, detailing the complicated emotions that bubble up and explaining the psychological and hormonal backstory as to why. With 30 years of combined experience counseling mothers, they show why its 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.