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This is the first thoroghly honest book to chart the changes of motherhood. Using interviews, medical and anthropological research as well as her own personal experience, Kate Figes examines the physical, psychological, emotional, social and sexual consequences of childbirth. She describes the extreme emotions, the exhaustion and upheaval of new motherhood and the way that relations with friends, family and the father of the child alter. With this definitive, encouraging and often funny book, new mothers will find practical advice and immense reassurance from the certain knowledge that things can only get better.
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The complete manual of the terrors, exhaustion and passionate emotions of the post-partum existence. A classic (THE TIMES)
A sanctuary of revelation about the bafflingly contradictory experience of becoming and being a mother . . . In places I laughed aloud in relieved recognition (Rebecca Abrams, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)
[I] salute Kate Figes's sensitive book which, admirably, helps redress the balance between the plethora of pregnancy manuals and the ridiculous paucity of advice on how to cope after (Leonie Miller, MAIL ON SUNDAY)
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A sanctuary of revelation about the bafflingly contradictory experience of becoming and being a mother . . . In places I laughed aloud in relieved recognition (Rebecca Abrams, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)
[I] salute Kate Figes's sensitive book which, admirably, helps redress the balance between the plethora of pregnancy manuals and the ridiculous paucity of advice on how to cope after (Leonie Miller, MAIL ON SUNDAY)
* Fully revised and updated, LIFE AFTER BIRTH takes a hard-hitting look at the reality - physical, emotional, social and sexual - of becoming a mother
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0670866008
- ISBN 13 9780670866007
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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