And now we have everything : on motherhood before I was ready
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Published
New York : Little Brown and Company, 2018.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
v, 230 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
306.87432 O'Co
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306.87432 O'Co
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Published
New York : Little Brown and Company, 2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
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.
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LC Subjects
Anecdotes.
Autobiographies.
First pregnancy -- Anecdotes.
First pregnancy -- Psychological aspects.
Motherhood -- Anecdotes.
Mothers -- United States -- Biography.
O'Connell, Meaghan.
Parenthood.
Pregnancy.
Single mothers -- United States -- Biography.
Unplanned pregnancy -- Anecdotes.
Unwanted pregnancy -- Decision making.
Unwanted pregnancy -- Psychological aspects.
Autobiographies.
First pregnancy -- Anecdotes.
First pregnancy -- Psychological aspects.
Motherhood -- Anecdotes.
Mothers -- United States -- Biography.
O'Connell, Meaghan.
Parenthood.
Pregnancy.
Single mothers -- United States -- Biography.
Unplanned pregnancy -- Anecdotes.
Unwanted pregnancy -- Decision making.
Unwanted pregnancy -- Psychological aspects.