The first few weeks of being a mom were profound, not just emotionally but also, physically. All the changes you instinctually go through are miraculous.

Milano frames early motherhood as an experience that is simultaneously psychological and bodily. By stressing the “first few weeks,” she points to the intense postpartum period when identity, routines, and relationships can shift rapidly, while the body is also recovering and adapting. Her emphasis on “instinctually” highlights the largely involuntary, biological dimensions of caregiving—bonding, vigilance, responsiveness—that can feel surprising even to prepared parents. Calling these changes “miraculous” elevates ordinary, often exhausting postpartum realities into something worthy of awe, implicitly countering cultural tendencies to minimize maternal labor or treat recovery and adaptation as invisible.