“The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.” MenWayChildrenEndsMotherWifeBirthHusbandConflictStressIncludingShockExhaustedHusband And WifeUnprecedentedDrainedBirth Of A Child Book:A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation Source: A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation
“There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person.” HumansPersonsMotherBabyHuman LifeHeartbeatCloseness Book:A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation Source: A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation
