And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready

And Now We Have Everything

On Motherhood Before I Was Ready

2018 • 240 pages

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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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June 13, 2018

Incredible. Gave me a million feels. So so real.

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