I appreciated the author's honesty and her anxiety as she writes about her life, mostly focused on those first few years of motherhood. I rated it high because I'm right there with the author, having a few years of motherhood under my belt, but I could see how other readers may not get as much from it.

I may be wrong, but I think it's fairly universal for new parents to be unprepared for what a big change it is after having babies. American society is so disconnected and has mostly lost the community and it-takes-a-village aspect that families could use. So what happens when you go from a fairly capable adult to an unprepared parent responsible for a small, dependent being? You research and search out how to be the best parent so you don't muck it up, and one great place for research is the mom group. While mom groups are great sources of support and education, they can also be competitive and judgmental, and they are definitely segregated. The author lays out why that is and why it needs to be.

My multiracial children were born in 2018 and 2019. Like many other white people, my worldview shifted heavily after George Floyd was killed, and the effects rippled through my mom groups in various ways. Majority white groups did surface level things that have since faded from their lives. No impactful changes were really made. I can only imagine how the few Black women must have felt within these groups. Probably felt a lot like the author did. I hope that she writes another book about her parenting down the road. I'd definitely pick it up.