By Chuck Schaeffer — 2018
Coping with the psychological and physiological shifts of fatherhood.
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“For your husband, your illness may have made him acutely aware of not just your mortality, but also his own.”
Parenthood — especially for women — changes you. After giving birth, the brain actually redesigns itself, trimming old connections and building new ones. If you’re someone who has constructed your adult identity around your career, these changes to how you operate can shake your foundations.
I was a cool hand, before I became a mother. Now, I’m a hopeless phobic. Whenever a child of mine gets sick, even with just a routine flu or stomach virus, every cough makes my heart race.