The growing recognition of matrescence offers an important framework for understanding the postpartum period. It provides language for the profound changes that can accompany the transition to motherhood and helps situate these experiences within a broader developmental process. Rather than viewing postpartum adjustment solely through the lens of recovery from birth or adaptation to caring for an infant, matrescence invites us to consider the transformation of the whole person becoming a mother.

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