The woman s idealization of the subjective experience of motherhood contrasts with the new feminine ideals which are no longer restricted to motherhood and marriage. Therefore, the demands arising from this new model of motherhood are in constant conflict with the female conquests of the last decades. With this perspective, in the present work we will approach aspects concerning the psychic resonances and the subjective changes that are molded in the new mother after the birth of a child, which are fundamental to the process of motherhood construction. Our intention will be to point out that the early days of motherhood inaugurate for women an unpredictable and deep psychic work, anchored both in their personal history and in the social context in which they live, since becoming a mother is not free from the assumptions of her time period.