Alexandra Sacks: A new way to think about the transition to motherhood
Alexandra Sacks: Una nueva forma de pensar la transición hacia la maternidad
Alexandra Sacks, M.D. is widely recognized as the leading clinical expert on matrescence: the developmental transition into motherhood. Full bio
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when you felt hormonal and moody?
hormonal y cambios de humor?
in strange places and very fast,
extrañas y a un ritmo acelerado
pretendían que actuáramos como adultos
grown-up in this new way.
to a woman when she's having a baby.
que una mujer atraviesa
for teenagers to feel all over the place,
se sientan confundidos,
pregnancy in the same way?
el embarazo de la misma manera?
the developmental arc of adolescence,
sobre el desarrollo en la adolescencia,
to describe the transition to motherhood.
hacia la maternidad.
y mujeres en etapa de posparto,
with pregnant and postpartum women,
working in this field,
dedicados a este campo,
I'm not enjoying this.
No lo estoy disfrutando.
of that diagnosis,
that she's not clinically depressed,
no está clínicamente deprimida,
like this," she insists.
sentirme", insiste.
expect it to feel like?"
¿Cómo crees que deberías sentirte?".
would make feel whole and happy.
me haría sentir plena y feliz.
would naturally tell me what to do.
naturalmente qué debo hacer.
to put the baby first."
poner al bebé como prioridad".
to motherhood feels like.
la transición hacia la maternidad.
like this from hundreds of women,
los mismos cuestionamientos,
that they weren't sick
a sentirse mejor.
to normalize this transition,
de normalizar esta transición,
the same thing as disease.
no siempre es una enfermedad.
the psychology of motherhood.
sobre la psicología de la maternidad.
in the medical textbooks,
no incluían mucha información
write about disease.
escriben sobre enfermedades.
but in an out-of-print essay
con un ensayo ya fuera de circulación,
to frame this conversation:
útil de darle marco a esta conversación:
sounds like "adolescence."
suene como "adolescencia".
and hormone shifting
corporal y el cambio hormonal
in how a person feels emotionally
de adaptarse a la realidad.
matrescence is not a disease,
la matrescencia no es una enfermedad,
in the medical vocabulary,
del vocabulario médico,
a sus pacientes en este tema,
educating people about it,
with a more serious condition
con una enfermedad más seria
the anthropology literature
la literatura antropológica,
con mis pacientes sobre la matrescencia,
about matrescence with my patients
the "push and pull."
de "tira y afloja".
are uniquely dependent.
su dependencia es absoluta.
our babies can't walk,
los bebés no saben caminar,
with this hormone called oxytocin.
con una hormona llamada "oxitocina".
en la etapa perinatal
give birth to the baby.
aunque no hayamos dado a luz.
zoom in, pulling her attention in,
de la madre a enfocar su atención
at the center of her world.
el centro de su mundo.
her mind is pushing away,
la mente de esa madre se aparta
all these other parts to her identity --
también son parte de su identidad,
tug-of-war of matrescence.
de la matrescencia.
the women calling me were feeling.
las mujeres que me llamaban.
creerse enfermas.
progression of matrescence,
el proceso natural de la matrescencia,
hard to live inside this push and pull,
este tironeo interior,
these circumstances,
and nothing to be ashamed of,
y no debería causar vergüenza,
rates of postpartum depression.
de depresión posparto.
our culture understands
la mirada cultural
hablen entre sí,
their own transition
su propia transición
protecting your relationship.
de proteger la relación.
a separate part of your identity,
una parte de su identidad,
for your child to develop their own.
para que el hijo desarrolle la suya.
también nace una madre,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Alexandra Sacks - Reproductive psychiatristAlexandra Sacks, M.D. is widely recognized as the leading clinical expert on matrescence: the developmental transition into motherhood.
Why you should listen
Alexandra Sacks has spent the last decade of her career helping women navigate their emotional lives as a reproductive psychiatrist. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times, and her work has been featured in TIME, NPR and throughout Asia, Europe and Latin America.
Board-certified in psychiatry with specialty fellowship training in women's mental health via New York Presbyterian Cornell and Columbia, Sacks helms a private practice in New York City and serves on the advisory boards for the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research. In April 2019, Dr. Sacks will publish her first co-authored book, What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood (Simon and Schuster).
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