Oh, Baby! : true stories about conception, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, labor, and love / edited by Lee Gutkind and Alice Bradley ; with an introduction by Lisa Belkin.
- Date:
- [2015]
- Books
About this work
Description
In these 23 original stories, mothers and fathers from all walks of life - straight, gay, single, surrogate, biological, adoptive - explore the challenges and rewards of parenthood. Here, among other adventures, parents fall hopelessly in love with newborns, secretly fear having made huge mistakes, race to finish birthing at home before the paramedics arrive, struggle with the bureaucracy of international adoption, despair of ever getting a one-year-old to nap, are nearly broken by colic, encounter other judgmental parents in birthing class, learn how to parent children with special needs, and more. Together, these thoughtful, searing, often hilarious essays map the grand (and sometimes terrifying) journey that begins with each new life.
Publication/Creation
Pittsburgh : InFact Books, [2015]
Physical description
287 pages ; 22 cm
Contributors
Notes
Title from cover.
Contents
Schrödinger's Pregnancy by Barbara Duffey -- Birthing Class by Eden M. Kennedy -- Push by Wanda Pitschel Harding -- The Beginning of the World by Anika Fajardo -- Quiet Enough by Danielle Leshaw -- Skin Time by Becki Melchione -- Boothville by Lisa Southgate -- How Little by Liz Windhorst Harmer -- Becoming His Mother by Mary A. Scherf -- Blue Pools by Anastasia Rubis -- I Know Where He Got That Hair! by Elizabeth Anne Hegwood -- Hungry by Amy Amoroso -- States of Permanence and Impermanence by Suzanne Farrell Smith -- Apocalypse Now by Amy Penne -- Just Colic by Leah Laben -- Baby Card by Terrance Flynn -- The Eleven-Minute Crib Nap by Jill Christman -- The Shell of Your Ear by Aileen Hunt -- The Dune at Nightm Erin White -- Another Mother by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew -- Four Early Lessons in Parenting by Steven Church -- Up and Above Us by KC Trommer -- The Baby Room by Nancy McCabe.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineUV/GUTOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9781937163211
- 1937163210