The Second Nine Months One Woman Tells the Real Truth about Becoming a Mom. Finally.

by Glembocki, Vicki

• ISBN13: 9780738211015
• ISBN10: 073821101X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-07
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books

Summary

I want to walk out of Target and leave Blair there, wailing.... Nice people work at Target. Surely someone would take her home and care for her and buy her pretty things.So begins Vicki Glembocki's brutally honest yet hilarious memoir of her agonizing transition into motherhood. Why agonizing? Because no one told her how tough it would be. Finally, Glembocki lays out the truth about those first months with baby: the certainty that you're doing everything wrong; the desire to kill your husband, your mother, your dog; the struggle to balance who you were with whom you've become-a mother. Unlike any other book on motherhood, Glembocki breaks the New Mother Code of Silence, proving that "maternal bliss" is not innate, but learned. Funny and wise, she connects with new moms on a shockingly intimate level, letting them know that they are not alone.

Author Biography

Vicki Glembocki is an editor at large at Philadelphia Magazine. She has written several articles on motherhood for magazines such as Women’s Health and Fit Pregnancy. She lives outside of Philadelphia.

Table of Contents

Shock and awe	p. 1
A mother's milked	p. 33
Never let them see you mother	p. 65
I am wrong. I am invisible. I am mother	p. 97
See mommy run. run, mommy, run	p. 127
Mothers of invention	p. 159
Mommy gone wild	p. 183
Hope springs maternal	p. 203
It's going to suck	p. 223
Because it's really ten months	p. 247
Acknowledgments	p. 263
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