# Nita Strauss on motherhood, becoming a new person, and the long road back to work

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/nita-strauss-on-motherhood-becoming-a-new-person-and-the-long-road-back-to-work/
- Published: 2026-11-07T16:05:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-07T16:19:13+00:00
- Original publisher: Louder
- Original article: https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/nita-strauss-motherhood-interview
- Topics: Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- Nita Strauss says motherhood has fundamentally changed her.
- She returned to performing while nursing her baby.
- She wants the transition into motherhood discussed more openly.

## Summary

Guitarist Nita Strauss describes how becoming a mother has changed her sense of identity and made returning to work more complicated than she expected. Her experience highlights the gap between assumptions that mothers will resume their former lives and the reality of adapting to a new stage of life.

After taking maternity leave from Alice Cooper’s band, Strauss returned for a halftime performance at a Las Vegas Raiders game while nursing her baby, Max. She also plays for the LA Rams and has been preparing to tour with her baby in tow. Strauss says postpartum life has been harder than anticipated and uses the term “matrescence” for the transition into motherhood, which she says deserves more open discussion.

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