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 184
... worry - about my career , about childcare and about my son or daughter's future education . I also worry that the pain of labour will seem much , much worse . By living a less privileged lifestyle in Mexico - by that I mean I had no ...
... worry - about my career , about childcare and about my son or daughter's future education . I also worry that the pain of labour will seem much , much worse . By living a less privileged lifestyle in Mexico - by that I mean I had no ...
Page 190
... worry about my pelvic floor as well as everything else . I've already been informed at my first ante - natal visit that I have to worry about my caffeine and alcohol intake and that the two Irish coffees I indulged in when I was six ...
... worry about my pelvic floor as well as everything else . I've already been informed at my first ante - natal visit that I have to worry about my caffeine and alcohol intake and that the two Irish coffees I indulged in when I was six ...
Page 191
... worry about . Apart from that , there are the things other people suggest that I should worry about . Like money . I don't have a proper job with maternity leave . As a freelance writer I barely eke out an existence . The first well ...
... worry about . Apart from that , there are the things other people suggest that I should worry about . Like money . I don't have a proper job with maternity leave . As a freelance writer I barely eke out an existence . The first well ...
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References to this book
Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians Michele Grossman No preview available - 2003 |