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 59
... talking one starts . She listens as I try to talk through it . It is becoming increasingly difficult . ' Come up whenever you want , ' she tells me . ' It's up to you . I'll be here until nine and then Deirdre is on . Have you met ...
... talking one starts . She listens as I try to talk through it . It is becoming increasingly difficult . ' Come up whenever you want , ' she tells me . ' It's up to you . I'll be here until nine and then Deirdre is on . Have you met ...
Page 135
... talk about his mother much . He's got that shiny , scrubbed look of a man who talks about his mother . His eyes were on me , fingering me like another question . My grandmother died here , I offered . I kept laughing in his company , as ...
... talk about his mother much . He's got that shiny , scrubbed look of a man who talks about his mother . His eyes were on me , fingering me like another question . My grandmother died here , I offered . I kept laughing in his company , as ...
Page 143
... talk to her and I write down what they say . I'm not sure where they're talking , so I manufacture bedrooms , bedsheets , tables , apple cores , lips , verandahs , candles , even people's feet , all in the most cavalier way . I go from ...
... talk to her and I write down what they say . I'm not sure where they're talking , so I manufacture bedrooms , bedsheets , tables , apple cores , lips , verandahs , candles , even people's feet , all in the most cavalier way . I go from ...
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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 |