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Pregnant Pause:: My Journey Through Obnoxious Questions, Baby Lust, Meddling Relatives, and Pre-Partum Depression Kindle Edition
If you've been asked the question "When are you going to have a baby?" so many times that you feel as though your uterus is starring in a new reality TV show, this hilarious, insightful book is for you.
Carrie Friedman shares her daily struggles with what she calls her "pre-partum depression"—from baby lust to panic, and everything in between. Fending off the "dreaded question" from everyone, including her yoga teacher, and navigating the minefield of toddler birthday parties, as well as creating her own faux baby registry under an assumed name, Carrie Friedman captures the process of deciding to have a baby with humor and smarts.
If you're looking for refuge from prying questions, pet substitution, and the call of your biological clock, this book is a hilarious diversion."
--Adrianne Frost, I Hate Other People's Kids
"An absolute delight!"
--Jamie Cat Callan, French Women Don't Sleep Alone
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCitadel Press
- Publication dateMarch 1, 2012
- File size915 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B006H6D39Q
- Publisher : Citadel Press (March 1, 2012)
- Publication date : March 1, 2012
- Language : English
- File size : 915 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 288 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,566,475 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,173 in Parenting & Family Humor
- #4,223 in Humorous American Literature
- #4,650 in Motherhood (Kindle Store)
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I read the book in a day, because it was manna for my soul. Finally, someone understood.
Carrie wrote this book from a very personal perspective, explaining that she did want kids.....eventually. She talks about the fear of parenthood, the fear of how it will change her life as a woman, and the fear that she will become like those total whackado moms out there. You know the ones.
She also raises interesting, and valid points, about questionable parenting techniques that have become pop cultural norms, and offers explanations for why women push their maternal views on other members of their gender.
The thing I loved best is that Carrie gave a voice to thousands of women, probably hundreds of thousands. She made me feel normal, like there is absolutely nothing wrong with waiting to have a baby. It is not selfish, it is not abnormal, it is just the best decision for me.
Thank you, Carrie, for making me feel at home in my identity as a married woman, something I was struggling with. I have recommended that my husband read this as well, since it could have so easily been written by me, to allow him to better understand why I get so frustrated with the cultural baby craze on my behalf.
As a personal note, I did still write my blog on the same topic, and if interested, you can find it here. It is not nearly as brilliant as Carrie's book, but read it, and if you feel the same way, go buy Carrie's book, and spread the word.
+ 2 for the attempt to tackle this sticky subject.