Review: MEMORIES
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 23, 2013
The author tells the story of a surprise pregnancy between two unmarried people in England who have been dating for less than a month. Throughout this time the father-to-be, who works in the food service industry, also suffers at the hands of an unfair (think cruel) manager. The mother-to-be is either dealing with the world's worst morning sickness/restless legs/chronic fatigue or she is playing this for all it's worth. During the pregnancy the diary paints a picture of a woman under constant duress so of course she can't go to work.I find the woman's role a little difficult to swallow, but then I sailed through three pregnancies without a single day of morning sickness. My mother had to be hospitalized and fed intravenously for her first pregnancy, me.When I was pregnant my husband wound up in the hospital-with kidney stones, one for the first child, one for the second and three or four the third time around.This book does remind me of some of the questions we had: will we be able to stretch our budget; what about names and are the childbirth classes worth it?Bill and I were married long before our first pregnancy and each pregnancy was planned. Those two things alone kept us from going as crazy as the two main characters in this book occasionally do. We weren't prepared for our first child to come three weeks early or for my breast milk to give me a concretebosom. Thank God my roommate was an experienced breastfeeding mother. She told me to run the water in the shower as hot as I could stand it and direct the spray to my breasts. She was right; I was able to express enough milk to soften my breasts so my little one could nurse.It's most interesting that this book is just the first in a series. It's just such a short book. Surely it should have carried us through delivery. When I got to the final page I felt somewhat cheated.