And now we have everything
Subtitle: on motherhood before I was ready
By: Meaghan O'Connell
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780316393843
Subjects: First pregnancy; Anecdotes; Single mothers; Mothers; Parenthood; Motherhood; Biography; Psychological aspects; Pregnancy; Unplanned pregnancy; Decision making; Unwanted pregnancy
Other titles: On motherhood before I was ready
Description: O'Connell is a smart twentysomething who treats her pregnancy like a new project, researching and planning. She envisions a natural birth and a year of wholesome breast feeding. But things do not go as she expects. Life throws curveballs, and after 40 hours of contractions, she opts for a C-section. She manages to nurse for a year but resents her baby's control over her body. This is not a book about the wonders of motherhood but about the tension between culturally inherited ideals and the realities of lived, bodily experience.
Table of contents: title: Baby fever; title: Holding patterns (1 to 41.5); title: A birth story; title: Sleepless nights; title: A certain kind of mammal; title: Slacker parent; title: Maternal instincts; title: Dry spell; title: Extra room (1 to 26).