Mother Love: Stories about Births, Babies and BeyondDebra Adelaide Birth: a rite of passage in which a woman is transformed from a well-groomed, well-organised, self-centered, carefree, childfree person into the exhausted, poo-wiping, milk-sodden, love -ravaged hero that is a new mother. Gabrielle Carey Motherlove: Births, Babies and Beyond is a wonderful collection of stories and memories from women writing about their own and others' births, their babies, and their lives beyond the moment of childbirth, when the world changed forever. Each of the writers invite the reader into their own unique world of Motherlove, that most extraordinary of loves that only mothers can experience and truly understand. The smells, the pain, the power and powerlessness, the joys, the utter exhaustion and the exhilaration, and the incredible love. Sometimes sad and moving, sometimes practical and funny, these are stories that will enthrall and delight every reader. |
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Page 32
... asked my mother what it was like to have a baby . She said , All the points of the compass swivel . Directions shift . I asked the hairdresser . She said , Imagine cutting off your own leg . It was an unexpected pregnancy . Here is a ...
... asked my mother what it was like to have a baby . She said , All the points of the compass swivel . Directions shift . I asked the hairdresser . She said , Imagine cutting off your own leg . It was an unexpected pregnancy . Here is a ...
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... asked about the name and said , ' Would Agatha do , since it was Our Lady's mother's name ? " I was too weak to disagree , but hated it and later we changed the name on the birth certificate to one we both liked , Mary Catherine , and ...
... asked about the name and said , ' Would Agatha do , since it was Our Lady's mother's name ? " I was too weak to disagree , but hated it and later we changed the name on the birth certificate to one we both liked , Mary Catherine , and ...
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... asked . I was trying to unpick the zipper . The shop assistant was sighing with the customers behind me and making a din on the counter drumming her fingernails . But my eyes negotiated his , their exact and trembling circumferences ...
... asked . I was trying to unpick the zipper . The shop assistant was sighing with the customers behind me and making a din on the counter drumming her fingernails . But my eyes negotiated his , their exact and trembling circumferences ...
Common terms and phrases
Anna arms asked baby Banaga birth centre blood body born breastfeeding breasts breath Cath centimetres cervix child childbirth Constance Markiewicz contractions Darren daughter death adder Deirdre doctor door dream epidural everything experience eyes face fear feel felt floor forceps freshwater crocodile Fyshwick Gavin girl give birth Grandma's grandmother hair hands hear home birth hospital Hughie husband Ina May Gaskin inside Judy knew labour laugh legs light lives look Melissa midwife milk minutes Miriam months morning mother Mowangka nappy never night NONI HAZLEHURST nurse obstetrician oxytocin pain pethidine placenta pregnancy pulled push realised remember Rosie says scream seemed Sheila Kitzinger sleep smell smile someone Sophie Steve story stroller talk tell There's things thought tiny told turned waiting walk warm watch weeks woman women wonder worry Yawuru
References to this book
Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians Michele Grossman No preview available - 2003 |