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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 8
Page 258
... epidural anaesthetic that the midwife has suggested . She has to curl up on her side and not move while the anaesthetic is injected into the base of her spine . Anna is now trussed up like a turkey . There are two drips , one to keep ...
... epidural anaesthetic that the midwife has suggested . She has to curl up on her side and not move while the anaesthetic is injected into the base of her spine . Anna is now trussed up like a turkey . There are two drips , one to keep ...
Page 281
... epidural wears off , leaving me in the middle of brutal contractions . I am in a raging storm . With renewed vigour I concentrate . I am full of hope but after only an hour and a half , I am as exhausted as I ever was . I am told I have ...
... epidural wears off , leaving me in the middle of brutal contractions . I am in a raging storm . With renewed vigour I concentrate . I am full of hope but after only an hour and a half , I am as exhausted as I ever was . I am told I have ...
Page 282
... epidural more than anything I've ever experienced and I almost — yes , I'm going to say it - I don't care what it might do to me or the baby in twenty minutes or twenty days or twenty years so long as I can get away from the pain NOW ...
... epidural more than anything I've ever experienced and I almost — yes , I'm going to say it - I don't care what it might do to me or the baby in twenty minutes or twenty days or twenty years so long as I can get away from the pain NOW ...
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 |