Library / Mama, bare: the birth of a mother

Three words: communal, vulnerable, refreshing

A few more: I saw this book sitting on my like minded cousin-in-law's bookshelf while visiting California. I promptly order it after she told me how wonderful it was. Beautiful short essays/stories/vignettes from women about their postpartum experiences. I need to start gifting this to my friends and clients. If you're a new mama, get this book. If you've been a a mama for a while, get this book. If you like to read about women's motherhood experience's, get this book. I'm also crazy about this cover art.

Here's a taste: "Stories of birth are celebrated and shared freely, as they should be. But the hollow moments afterward- the first day, the first week, the first month - are strange and foreign places to be, and are hardly talked about at all. In our opinion, this leaves new mothers feeling forced to carry on as if nothing much has changed. They stumble into motherhood blindly, uncomfortable in new skin, fumbling with the wanting body of a newborn, an the birth of a Mother, and the death of an Ego."