Making babies stumbling into motherhood
Describes the author's experiences becoming a middle-aged mother after being married for eighteen years.
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Apologies all round
- Breeding
- The glass wall
- Dream-time
- Birth
- Milk
- Nine months
- Time
- Advice
- Being two
- Groundhog day
- Science
- Babies : a breeder's guide
- God
- Buggies
- Staring
- Home birth
- Wriggles
- Naming
- Burps
- Hands
- Girl / Boy
- Crying
- Evolution
- Authority
- Poo
- Smell
- Too much information
- Baby-talk
- The killing cup
- Kissing
- How to panic
- Romance
- The lip of the rug
- By the time you read this, it will be true
- Staring, Part 2
- What's wrong with velcro?
- Unforgiven
- Fair
- Second pregnancies
- Siblings
- Toys
- Dirt
- Other mothers, other fathers
- How to get trolleyed while breast-feeding
- Entertaining
- On giving birth to a genius
- Dreams
- Speech
- On being loved
- It's not about you, you know
- It's not about you, you know, Part 2
- The moment
- Worry
- Forgetting
- What it does
- Oh, mortality
- Acknowledgements.
