Baby Poems on Pregnancy, Birth and Babies

by Ferguson, Gillian K.

• ISBN13: 9781841951218
• ISBN10: 1841951218
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-02
• Publisher: Canongate U.S.

Summary

For many women - and men - the whole experience of conception, pregnancy, birth and a new baby is the most intense that they will ever have in their lives. Gillian Ferguson's brilliant second collection of poems explores this 'everyday miracle' of creating a new human being in a way that is at once humorous, moving, sensuous and profound.

Table of Contents

The Baby Hunger	p. 3
There should be a Noise	p. 5
Sperm on Legs	p. 6
Egg and Sperm Meet	p. 8
Scan	p. 11
Baby Pattern	p. 12
The Good Thing about Being Pregnant ...	p. 13
Gene Soup	p. 14
Mrs Smug	p. 15
My Belly Blossoms	p. 17
Finding and Joining with Father-To-Be	p. 18
What Does it Feel Like?	p. 19
Blood Tests	p. 21
Feeling Round	p. 22
The Only Mother-To-Be	p. 23
A Bigger World	p. 24
Caesarean	p. 27
After the Caesarean	p. 29
The Caesarean Wound	p. 31
Midwives	p. 33
Suddenly a Baby	p. 34
Hospital Nursery	p. 35
Blue Poppies	p. 36
The Good News	p. 39
Baby Hand	p. 40
Blessed	p. 41
His Round Skull	p. 42
Baby Foot	p. 43
What Have I Ever Done So Good	p. 44
Thank You Prayer	p. 45
Wonder	p. 46
Another Mother and a Pram	p. 48
My Baby's Hands	p. 49
I Am a Mummy	p. 50
Breast-feeding	p. 51
Crying	p. 52
Baby Pose	p. 54
My Baby Breathing	p. 55
Baby in the Daffodils	p. 56
Inhaling his Hair	p. 58
My Stomach After	p. 61
Pram Rage	p. 63
Watchnight Service	p. 66
Nature's Censor	p. 67
First Look	p. 68
Sleeping with Baby	p. 69
Bees Hospital	p. 73
Can We have a Guarantee?	p. 77
Your Smile	p. 78
Learning to Stand	p. 79
Sunny Day Prospects	p. 80
Baby Laugh	p. 83
Everything is More	p. 85
Orbit of Three	p. 86
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