Book This is our postpartum

Society generally presents the arrival of a baby as a magical event and motherhood as a source of immense happiness. This is to ignore the difficulties and turmoil of the postpartum period, this troubled period following childbirth. It is to hide the pain, the suffering – physical or psychological – that women experience in the days, weeks, months following the arrival of their child.Illana Weizman denounces the invisibility of this great taboo of motherhood, common to millions of women across the world, and deciphers its socio-cultural origins. In this liberating manifesto, she encourages women to get informed, to share their experiences, and puts forward political proposals to normalize the realities of postpartum and enable better management.