Great Expectations Ed 2: Twenty-Five True Stories About Childbirth

In this exceptional collection of original essays, twenty-five celebrated writers share one of their most intimate and life-changing experiences: giving birth. Moving, uniquely honest, and transformative, Great Expectations takes the reader on an emotional and physical journey like no other: Lynn Coady relates the painful memory of her teenage pregnancy and the anguish of having to give up her newborn for adoption; Peter Behrens expresses a father's feeling of utter helplessness and incomparable joy during the birth of his first child; Christy Ann Conlin describes pregnancy and birth at age forty; Afua Cooper reflects upon the immigrant's experience of three pregnancies and childbirths in a new land with foreign, and evolving, customs; Anne Fleming contemplates her partner's artificial insemination and the birth of a beautiful girl; and Jaclyn Moriarty transcribes her grandmother's and her mother's birth stories, along with her own, to create a tender oral history, spanning three generations.

• | Author: Lisa Moore|Dede Crane, Lisa Moore
• | Publisher: A List
• | Publication Date: Aug 07, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Family & Relationships
• | ISBN-10: 1487003897
• | ISBN-13: 9781487003890