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 57
... laughs . ' Now , give me that book . ' She asks me question after question . And together we try to work out where I am ... laugh . ' Can you believe it ? ' Rosie turns and asks Tom . ' The woman is about to give birth and she wants Thai ...
... laughs . ' Now , give me that book . ' She asks me question after question . And together we try to work out where I am ... laugh . ' Can you believe it ? ' Rosie turns and asks Tom . ' The woman is about to give birth and she wants Thai ...
Page 150
... laughed her toothless , open - mouthed laugh . Her meaningless laugh . It had the mockery of kookaburras . Help me , I said to her . I sat on the sofa , cradling her like a madonna would've . I know them so well , those old paintings ...
... laughed her toothless , open - mouthed laugh . Her meaningless laugh . It had the mockery of kookaburras . Help me , I said to her . I sat on the sofa , cradling her like a madonna would've . I know them so well , those old paintings ...
Page 247
... laughs and has another drink . ' Sit down Soph , ' he says , patting the bed beside him . Sophie watches Darren's ... laughs again , with his head thrown back , and despite herself she's laughing too , laughing with him . She sits on the ...
... laughs and has another drink . ' Sit down Soph , ' he says , patting the bed beside him . Sophie watches Darren's ... laughs again , with his head thrown back , and despite herself she's laughing too , laughing with him . She sits on the ...
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References to this book
Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians Michele Grossman No preview available - 2003 |