Mother Love: Stories about Births, Babies & 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 106
... blood from the cord slowed to a trickle , and finally Hughie closed his eyes . Cath watched Hughie go without a flutter of alarm . She had more blood to spill but knew she was only seconds from following him . Seconds from being ...
... blood from the cord slowed to a trickle , and finally Hughie closed his eyes . Cath watched Hughie go without a flutter of alarm . She had more blood to spill but knew she was only seconds from following him . Seconds from being ...
Page 217
... blood- splattered butcher's shop in Marrickville Road , which sells things like spleen and blood jelly . Yet the midwife handled it almost as lovingly as I my baby ; she patted it , turned it over , pointed out the raw place where it ...
... blood- splattered butcher's shop in Marrickville Road , which sells things like spleen and blood jelly . Yet the midwife handled it almost as lovingly as I my baby ; she patted it , turned it over , pointed out the raw place where it ...
Page 223
... blood smell . Quickly and deftly , like midwives do , she wrapped her as she was in another blanket , and when I held her again I saw that her hair , free of most of the vernix and blood , was curly light brown . Later when I washed her ...
... blood smell . Quickly and deftly , like midwives do , she wrapped her as she was in another blanket , and when I held her again I saw that her hair , free of most of the vernix and blood , was curly light brown . Later when I washed her ...
Common terms and phrases
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References to this book
Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians Michele Grossman No preview available - 2003 |