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Focused on the Bionian caesura, this paper suggests that the existential caesura of birth always belongs to both mother and infant. During that process of being “born,” the mother, too, experiences a line of breaks—breaks of time and space, of meaning, of continuity, and of boundaries—all related to an emotional and physical reorganization of boundaries and therefore to the unity of the self. This position statement presents the notion of “Breaks in Unity” and discusses the unspoken aspects of childbirth and the transition to motherhood.