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 120
... bodies . Even today there is a danger that as we give voice to our experiences as living , physical , female beings ... body and mind , severed long ago with a thrust every bit as cruel and insensitive as the cutting of Warreweer's ...
... bodies . Even today there is a danger that as we give voice to our experiences as living , physical , female beings ... body and mind , severed long ago with a thrust every bit as cruel and insensitive as the cutting of Warreweer's ...
Page 222
... body and I was delivering my own baby . I felt the power I had wanted to feel the time before , but had been too exhausted . The pain ripped through my body in great convulsive waves just as before , but now I felt carried along on the ...
... body and I was delivering my own baby . I felt the power I had wanted to feel the time before , but had been too exhausted . The pain ripped through my body in great convulsive waves just as before , but now I felt carried along on the ...
Page 262
... body would do such a thing to itself . But another part of Philippa's brain seems to be taking over , disassociating her mind from her body just enough for her to be able to keep going , as the relentless and intensifying pains visit ...
... body would do such a thing to itself . But another part of Philippa's brain seems to be taking over , disassociating her mind from her body just enough for her to be able to keep going , as the relentless and intensifying pains visit ...
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 |