Eating Her Young: Poems for the Disruption of Motherhood

Eating Her Young: Poems for the Disruption of Motherhood

This collection of poetry is for all the women who lose themselves in the chaos of their baby’s first six weeks. This book is for all the women who feel like discarded empty husks after the baby arrives. These poems are for new mothers who realize that the birth of their baby is also a loss of themselves.
As mothers we all want to be seen and heard and understood and that is exactly what this collection of raw and honest poetry about motherhood is: Both a deep-dive and a reflection of a mother’s most intimate, and sometimes terrifying, sometimes traumatizing, always illuminating, thoughts.
Swimming in the postpartum haze, Jackie Schoemaker Holmes articulates the experience of new motherhood in an unvarnished, unsanitized way and gives readers a window into the chaos and clarity that the experience of birthing a child and rebirthing yourself brings. This postpartum essentials mom book deals head on with some of the struggles faced by women transforming into the role of mother including postpartum depression, anxiety and identity crisis.
For women on a journey of self-exploration and self-reflection, these poetic accounts of motherhood and womanhood will accompany you and affirm your process of empowerment and self-actualization into your personalized identity of Mother, as they did for the author.