And Now We Have Everything
On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
Ratings15
Average rating4.3
15
On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
Ratings15
Average rating4.3
O'Connell is a smart twentysomething who treats her pregnancy like a new project, researching and planning. She envisions a natural birth and a year of wholesome breast feeding. But things do not go as she expects. Life throws curveballs, and after 40 hours of contractions, she opts for a C-section. She manages to nurse for a year but resents her baby's control over her body. This is not a book about the wonders of motherhood but about the tension between culturally inherited ideals and the realities of lived, bodily experience.
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Gah, I loved this book. O'Connell captures so well the fears and anxieties of would-be moms (and I assume new moms too), and the first part of the book feels like a season of Master of None. While this memoir did nothing to assuage my deep-seated fears about pregnancy, I appreciated her honest and straightforward thoughts about all the ups and downs of motherhood.
So many thoughts... I'll get some down tomorrow when I'm on a computer. Let's just say for now, that I really needed this book. <3
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I own this in hardcover, but read the kindle version, and I'm glad I did. Kindle (or goodreads through kindle) tells me I made 147 highlights, and then 19 notes. I like knowing that, and having all of them stored here so I can reference them.
Look, this book won't be for everyone. There are parts of the book I didn't really relate too, but there's so much I did. If nothing else, this book was good for knowing that I'm not alone in feeling some of these things, in feeling this way.
I don't really want to write the review that I could. It would be too much to put out publicly, so this is the review I am writing.
