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Empower yourself and be ready!

When a baby is born, a mother is born!

However, the mother is often completely overlooked in the whole birthing and postpartum process.

Newsflash!

A woman is transformed when she becomes a mother. This "becoming a mother" is known as matrescence. It is quite possibly the most transformational time in your life.

Imagine if you knew all the things that can, and do, happen to women during labour, childbirth and early matrescence, before you have your baby.

How prepared and empowered would you feel?

I Wish Someone Had Told Me… does just that. It prepares and empowers you so you can enter motherhood on the front foot!

This book shares information about what happens to YOU (not your baby!). In it you will find the 195 truths 1000 mothers, from around the world, want you to know before you give birth.

Because some things in labour, childbirth and early motherhood are just too gross, embarrassing or personal to share, many mums don’t find out these truths until you experience them yourself.

Start your journey into motherhood informed and ready for whatever happens.

I Wish Someone Had Told Me...

shares the 195 things 1000 mothers, from around the world, want you to know before you have your baby.

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Hi, I’m Jen!

I’m a PhD-qualified neuroscientist, psychotherapist, matrescence researcher, author, and international speaker.

To my 3 kids I am Mama. That’s my favourite title and also the most challenging one.

Motherhood has tested me in many ways. Not just the part of mothering my children, but how becoming a mother has changed me.

Only after my babies were born did I recognise that when a baby is born, a mother is born.

Matrescence – the term used to describe the process of becoming a mother – was not in my vocabulary until matrescence hit me in the face, at force. There was no way to avoid it (and trust me I tried!!!), so I had to learn about it. And mostly I had to learn about myself, the “new” me, the mother.

And now I want to teach you everything I know.

While I have some experience with writing (my neuroscience research was published in some of the top peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Neuroscience), I never intended to write I Wish Someone Had Told Me… But after many things happened to me, during my three labours, births and early weeks of matrescence, that I Wish Someone Had Told Me, I had an idea to write these things down to pass on to other mums to-be and new mothers. My idea resulted in 6 years of research and over 1000 interviews with mothers worldwide, who also want you to know what they wish they had known before they became mothers. We want you to know about these physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual things before you have your baby, so you are empowered with knowledge and enter motherhood on the front foot.

I Wish Someone Had Told Me…, my matrescence journey and learnings, and my scientific knowledge snowballed into the work I feel so honoured to do today: offering mothers knowledge and understanding about how matrescence changes you, your brain and your mind, and how you can use these transformational changes to train your brain to be the happiest mother you know.

The Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation is a cause close to my heart, because...

...it is dedicated to the treatment and prevention of childbirth injuries called obstetric fistulas, which occur due to an obstructed labour.

I had an obstructed labour with my first son and I thank my lucky stars that I was in the fantastic hospital I was in. All I ended up with was extensive tearing (and a healthy baby!). Thanks to the amazing and immediate care I received I don’t have any complications nor repercussions due to this delivery, even after having two more vaginal births.

I feel for the mothers who the Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation care for and I know that in a different time, in a different place, I could have easily endured an obstetric fistula myself, and probably my son would not have survived.

Gaining knowledge about what can, and often does happen during labour and childbirth is the best way a woman can prepare herself for motherhood.

Please take the knowledge passed down from the 1000 mothers in this book to empower yourself for a birth that results in a healthy baby and a healthy and happy YOU.