My Daughter’s Clothes- Piles of Them

Martha Manning, Ph.D.
The Haven
Published in
5 min readAug 6, 2022

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From infancy to adulthood, my daughter’s clothes tell me who she is

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The final month of pregnancy was thankless. There was so much to do — none of it having to do with being a mother. I had just passed my Ph.D. comprehensive exams and was facing the daunting task of outlining my plan for my dissertation. In the first of many delusional ideas about new motherhood, I expected that I would work while the…

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Martha Manning, Ph.D.
The Haven

Dr. Martha Manning is a writer and clinical psychologist, author of Undercurrents and Chasing Grace. Depression sufferer. Mother. Growing older under protest.