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 138
... nappy and moved so he had to stand aside . My fingers were long and dextrous on the nappy folding . I was showing off . But then the nappy pin jammed . Allow me , he said . I'm okay , I said . I jerked it out and rubbed it in my hair ...
... nappy and moved so he had to stand aside . My fingers were long and dextrous on the nappy folding . I was showing off . But then the nappy pin jammed . Allow me , he said . I'm okay , I said . I jerked it out and rubbed it in my hair ...
Page 146
... nappies still warm from the sun . ( I have to wash nappies because the nappy wash delivery man only comes once a fortnight . He says I'm lucky he'll come at all , the road's so rough . I keep running out of their nappies and using mine ...
... nappies still warm from the sun . ( I have to wash nappies because the nappy wash delivery man only comes once a fortnight . He says I'm lucky he'll come at all , the road's so rough . I keep running out of their nappies and using mine ...
Page 152
... nappy wash receipt - there are always nappy wash receipts to write on in this house now , under milk bottles , in shopping bags , between the cushions on the sofa . But Zoe jolted awake and cried so I walked a few more rounds in ...
... nappy wash receipt - there are always nappy wash receipts to write on in this house now , under milk bottles , in shopping bags , between the cushions on the sofa . But Zoe jolted awake and cried so I walked a few more rounds in ...
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References to this book
Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians Michele Grossman No preview available - 2003 |