FROM THE HIPS Blog Tour, Coming Atcha
So, I had a baby. No, not the new baby, but approximately four and a half years ago, I became a mother. And boy, was I in the dark. Or at least felt in the dark about motherhood. I'd read at least a dozen books on birth, breastfeeding, parenting, motherhood (journals), but still, was I ready? Hardly.This is where I wish I'd had FROM THE HIPS a great new book from Rebecca Odes and Ceridwen Morris. Not only does this book just look great (hello? color illustrations and a title that just gives it to you like it is)-it's full of all the stuff you wanted to ask/say/holler/inquire/cry about during everything from the first signs of pregnancy through the first year of the baby's life!
Sure, it's geared towards new first time mothers, but I'll be damned if I didn't sit and read the book cover to cover, scouring over the well placed Anonymom quotes on almost each and every page and nod my head over and over. In fact, after a while, I found it almost sad that so many new moms feel all this stuff and we hardly share the feeling with one another. I mean, pregnancy is not easy. Even for those of us that have "easy" pregnancies. And then birth? Well, let's just simply say: It's a (painful/horrendous/embarrassing/out-of-this-world/any adjective you can think of here) experience. But then AFTER all of this life-changing crap (and a body you hardly recognize anymore) you are thrown into this thing called parenthood. Hell, I would have given my left arm to have a book like this to confirm that, indeed, I really hadn't fallen off the deep end.
So please, just read the Introduction here (it will have you hooked). Or, even better, go to the website and order the book. And to keep you (and the baby) pacified until it arrives, check out The New Mom Blog (hell, I've been reading it on RSS feed now for days. Baby 2 doesn't diminish the 1000 fears that cross your mind). And even better yet read about Rebecca and Ceridwen, women with an honest approach to pregnancy AND parenthood (and let me tell you--they really do cover it all... from conception, good ole sex, impressionable women and their intruding families, as well as how to deal emotionally when the baby just won't fall asleep).
Go. Read. Now.
This post brought to you by (again), the lovely women at MotherTalk. They keep offering up books to review, and hell if I can't keep saying yes! The books are great, and authors even beter.
