Dr. Edna Lekgabe

So their grief and their mattresses is even more unnamed and more unsupported because you haven't got a baby.

You're just grieving, right?

But you're no longer that person that you were.

You've shifted.

Your biology's changed.

Trauma might show up, depression will show up.

So for women that I meet, I have to honor that they have also gone through matricence.

They've gone through the biology, the psychological, the physiological, they've gone through it.

And those women feel a relief when they hear that, you know, you are also a mother.

It's just your baby's not on earth, but you are still a mother.

Yeah, so once a mother, always a mother.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

The doom and gloom, it comes from the fact that we do not honor the transition.

We don't honor it anymore.

We don't have any acknowledgement of it.

We just have that there's a baby that's arrived, let's focus on the baby.

There's a lot of that, but we've lost that.

And if we spend time just honoring that, absolutely.

Women that are supported, I see women that are supported in that space.