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 78
... night was the night when my dreams and hopes ended . I woke suddenly at dawn to feel strange sensations in the lower part of my body . It wasn't pain , but a tiny head pushing down and through and out . My baby's head . What was it ...
... night was the night when my dreams and hopes ended . I woke suddenly at dawn to feel strange sensations in the lower part of my body . It wasn't pain , but a tiny head pushing down and through and out . My baby's head . What was it ...
Page 144
Stories about Births, Babies & Beyond Debra Adelaide. She cried in the night . In the velvety silence of night , terror has a shape . It's your half - closed eyes one afternoon in the laundry at home . I was about ten years old , and it ...
Stories about Births, Babies & Beyond Debra Adelaide. She cried in the night . In the velvety silence of night , terror has a shape . It's your half - closed eyes one afternoon in the laundry at home . I was about ten years old , and it ...
Page 238
... night , or when Sophie wakes , imagining she hears her daughter , with her nightgown soaked and her breasts aching , she thinks of the house on the hill and the big old trees surrounding it . Knowing the house is there lessens the chore ...
... night , or when Sophie wakes , imagining she hears her daughter , with her nightgown soaked and her breasts aching , she thinks of the house on the hill and the big old trees surrounding it . Knowing the house is there lessens the chore ...
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 |