The way to reliably ID a conservative narrative on motherhood is the fixation on feminism as a natural enemy to motherhood: The (mostly imaginary) figure of the white, straight, middle-class woman who's gotten too educated to make babies, and the idea that feminists "hate moms."

This naturally involves the idea that true happiness can only be found through husband and family, or that mean queers & bitter childless women are jealous of Real Women. But the type is familiar enough by now to be taught in high school English. The grift is transparent.

It also necessarily involves embodying The Bliss of Straight Motherhood by presenting your own marriage as aspirational, something lesser women are missing out on, which is why it's so threatening to point out that Bruenig's own descriptions of marriage are often weird and sad.

There are people whose motherhood or fertility is actually stigmatized: Black people, poor people, queer and trans people. The conservative narrative reliably dodges all that to center the imaginary threat of affluent white mothers lured away from the home by social progress.