Cirrus@Austlit

'When Ariane Beeston gave birth to her son she was working in child protection as a newly registered psychologist. Years before, she’d won a ballet and dance scholarship to a Sydney private school, which led to performing with the English National Ballet, winning ballet competitions and blitzing exams. When puberty arrived, this changed. Too short, too muscular – so the arbiters said – Beeston was made to feel “too much and not enough”. Pregnancy renewed this scrutiny of her body, reigniting “tracking, monitoring, obsessing” over her size, and parenting brought other kinds of scrutiny, most with limited capacity to detect maternal mental health conditions.' (Introduction)