“I woke up with a start at 4:00 one morning and realized I was very very pregnant.” One of the trends I’ve noticed about writing about pregnancy more recently is some attempt to remove the sort of automated cultural responses to what pregnancy, birth, and motherhood are. What I mean by this is that more recently books about motherhood (especially memoirs and not say, baby or parenting books) have tried to be more honest about some of the different feelings people have regarding these experiences. […]
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Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott