Book description
In the early days with their first babies, two friends began comparing notes on what, exactly, was going on in their postpartum bodies and minds. What was a wake window? How could anyone function under the weight of so much love? All their new-mom friends were overwhelmed too. In search…
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1 author picked Notes to New Mothers as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book brings together sixty-five different writers to talk about motherhood—from various experiences of labor and birth, to breastfeeding, postpartum anxiety and depression, and all the other new, messy, beautiful things that are a part of bringing life into this world.
Whether someone is a new mom themselves, is considering it, has been a mom for a long time, or loves someone who is a mother, this book creates a way in for understanding and having conversations about what it’s really like to be a new mom.
And with one of us recently entering the role of a “new mom,”…
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