Motherhood Doesn’t Always Feel Natural

Helen Elliott
Thrive Global
Published in
4 min readOct 22, 2018

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Surviving The Early Days of Your Baby’s Life

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One minute you are a child yourself right, the next you are responsible 24/7 for the needs of another human being? It can feel as quick as that — this apparently natural progression through life and the development of your own family and the continuation of the human species.

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Helen Elliott
Thrive Global

Clinical Psychologist, student of life, mother, passionate advocate of living well despite the experience of mental illness