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 180
... pain , they're thinking , that excruciating pain of labour we've all heard so much about ? So I then have to confess to my perfect textbook birth . Yes there was pain but it didn't seem to me , for the most part , unbearable . Even the ...
... pain , they're thinking , that excruciating pain of labour we've all heard so much about ? So I then have to confess to my perfect textbook birth . Yes there was pain but it didn't seem to me , for the most part , unbearable . Even the ...
Page 282
... pain NOW . The baby's heart beats , beats , beats . The big fist of pain throws me from one end of myself to the other . Contraction by contraction , the invisible cord pulls us tighter : Moon , mother , daughter , baby . Thirty - two ...
... pain NOW . The baby's heart beats , beats , beats . The big fist of pain throws me from one end of myself to the other . Contraction by contraction , the invisible cord pulls us tighter : Moon , mother , daughter , baby . Thirty - two ...
Page 287
... pain . I used to have a lot of ideas about things I had never experienced and I suppose , for someone who is naturally inclined towards ideas and the life of the mind , I always will . Now I will at least try to distinguish between ...
... pain . I used to have a lot of ideas about things I had never experienced and I suppose , for someone who is naturally inclined towards ideas and the life of the mind , I always will . Now I will at least try to distinguish between ...
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 |