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I Wish Someone Had Told Me: A Realistic Guide to Early Motherhood
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About the BookThere's no shortage of "expert" advice for the new mother: books, doctors, and well-meaning grandmothers liberally give opinions on what you should be doing and how you should be feeling. But I Wish Someone Had Told Me is not a book of shoulds: it is a book about how women really handle the joys, the challenges and the problems of being a mother. During the course of her interviews with more than sixty new moms, Nina Barrett made an important discovery. No one knows the secret: we are all putting our motherhood together from scratch. This collection of tales from the front addresses universal topics from labor (yes, it hurts), to marriage (babies may create strain rather than a bond), to daycare (there is no Mary Poppins), to everyday life with a baby (what exactly does a newborn do all day?). This book by mothers for mothers will instill confidence in all new mothers who fear that every other mother knows something that they don't. Reviews"At last, an antidote to the one-philosophy-fits-all tomes on childbirth and parenthood. Nina Barrett's book . . . offers encouragement to anyone who ever wondered why the reality of parenthood doesn't always measure up to the expectation."––Parents magazine "The kind of stuff a new mom is hungry to read, balm for the frazzled spirit who is certain that 1) she is crazy, 2) she is a miserable failure as a mother and 3) she is the only mom in the history of the world who has been unable to cope effortlessly with the isolation, exhaustion and relentless demands of motherhood."––Los Angeles Times "Barrett delivers on her promise to debunk the Superwoman myth in a work that entertains as it serves up effective advice."––Publishers Weekly |
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