BEING A MOTHER: (what nobody tells you!) - Pregnancy-
Book Details
Author(s)Ruth Sturges
ISBN / ASINB00XRUIAB6
ISBN-13978B00XRUIAB2
Sales Rank1,683,008
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
This is a ‘must-read’ book for anyone planning a family. It makes a good read for established mothers as well, and those whose children have ‘flown the nest’.
Motherhood is a huge responsibility, the most important role, or job you’ll ever do. There’s no interview, no job description, and no salary! But it can be fabulous! However, it will also herald the most significant change to your lifestyle imaginable. Your relationships with family and friends will be altered, your ideas about what brings you pleasure, what really matters and where your priorities lie will shift. Most importantly the father of your baby or your parenting partner will notice the differences too.
This book is NOT about childcare. It concentrates on YOU.
Parenting, changes you and your perspective on life forever: going in with your eyes open gives you an advantage. This book attempts to tell you the stuff nobody else tells you!
Families are as diverse as the people who make parents, from large extended groups, to singletons, same sex couples and traditional man/woman partnerships, but you need to be in agreement about the important things, you need to share the role whilst maintaining some independence for yourselves. Hopefully it will show you how not to lose your identity as you take on the role of little one’s mummy.
It is also anecdotal, with the author writing from her own experiences, as well as those of others she has met. She brings humour to many situations, but it is really a book to get you thinking a different way. A book full of stuff so many others leave out. So often, you will hear the phase, ‘unless you have kids yourself, you won’t understand’. You will also hear things that no-one seems to say or tell you until after the event. This book tries to reveal some of these things, give you advance warning of issues that can trip you up, unsettle you, or that you might miss if you’re not watching!
It’s meant to be fun as well as informative. Hopefully it will be the first of a series taking the process right through the school years, to teenagers and adulthood.
Motherhood is a huge responsibility, the most important role, or job you’ll ever do. There’s no interview, no job description, and no salary! But it can be fabulous! However, it will also herald the most significant change to your lifestyle imaginable. Your relationships with family and friends will be altered, your ideas about what brings you pleasure, what really matters and where your priorities lie will shift. Most importantly the father of your baby or your parenting partner will notice the differences too.
This book is NOT about childcare. It concentrates on YOU.
Parenting, changes you and your perspective on life forever: going in with your eyes open gives you an advantage. This book attempts to tell you the stuff nobody else tells you!
Families are as diverse as the people who make parents, from large extended groups, to singletons, same sex couples and traditional man/woman partnerships, but you need to be in agreement about the important things, you need to share the role whilst maintaining some independence for yourselves. Hopefully it will show you how not to lose your identity as you take on the role of little one’s mummy.
It is also anecdotal, with the author writing from her own experiences, as well as those of others she has met. She brings humour to many situations, but it is really a book to get you thinking a different way. A book full of stuff so many others leave out. So often, you will hear the phase, ‘unless you have kids yourself, you won’t understand’. You will also hear things that no-one seems to say or tell you until after the event. This book tries to reveal some of these things, give you advance warning of issues that can trip you up, unsettle you, or that you might miss if you’re not watching!
It’s meant to be fun as well as informative. Hopefully it will be the first of a series taking the process right through the school years, to teenagers and adulthood.
