JAMILIASHANI
- Writer
- Maternal Technology Designer
- Birth and Postpartum Doula
My work explores motherhood, identity, development, grief, womanhood, and the inner lives of women.
A bookAvailable now
The Missing Map
On Matrescence and the Making of a Mother
A book about the mother herself, and the developmental transformation no one prepared her for.
- Publication
- October 27, 2026
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Independently published
What happens to the woman who becomes a mother?
Maternal Development.
The study of the mother herself as a developing human being.
My work follows that question across psychological, relational, embodied, social, and cultural dimensions, and across the whole of a life.
Visit MaternalDevelopment.orgSelected work
Five expressions of one body of work.
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Book
The Missing Map
A companion for the woman becoming a mother.
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Research & conceptual work
Maternal Development
A proposed interdisciplinary field centered on the mother’s own development.
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Maternal technology
Forpartum
A maternal development and maternal neuro-wellness platform supporting mothers across the lifelong journey of motherhood.
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Professional education
Propartum Institute
Education and simulations for the people who care for mothers.
Opening Winter 2026
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Music & sound
Partum Music & Partum Sound
Music and sound made for the inner life of motherhood.
About
A life’s work in service of the mother herself.
Jamilia Shani is a writer, maternal technology designer, and birth and postpartum doula whose work focuses on maternal development.
Read the full profile- Work
- Writer, maternal technology designer, and birth and postpartum doula
- Focus
- Maternal development
- Alongside mothers since
- 2016
- Practice
- Birth and postpartum doula
- Current study
- Psychology
- Ongoing training
- Midwifery
- Author of
- The Missing Map