num_pages: 248
description: If you work hard enough if you want it enough if youre smart and talented and good enough you can do anything.Except get pregnant.Her whole life Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time conceiving turned out to be harder than anything shed ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages and her eventual successful pregnancy plagued by health issues up to a dramatic near-death experience during labor and delivery.This moving hilarious and surprisingly informative memoir not only follows Lucys personal transition into motherhood but also illustrates the history and science of reproductive health from all angles including curious facts and inspiring (and notorious) figures in medicine and midwifery. Whether youve got kids want them or want nothing to do with them theres something in this graphic memoir to open your mind and heart.
language: English
title: Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
publisher: First Second Books