Nobody Tells You
Over 100 Honest Stories About Pregnancy, Birth and Parenthood
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'A truly wonderful resource for new parents and prospective parents alike.' – Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt.
'Refreshingly honest . . . an insightful read for all parents to be!' – Midwife Marley
'A brilliant collection of parenthood truths and reassurances.' – Stacie Swift
A no-holds-barred collection of more than 100 real-life accounts of pregnancy, birth, and life with a baby, brought together with simple advice from pregnancy and postnatal expert Becca Maberly and consultant obstetrician Roger Marwood.
This broad range of honest pregnancy, birth and parenting stories, from the likes of Clemmie Telford, Molly Gunn, Megan Rose Lane, Anna Mathur and many more, is accompanied by professional and reassuring advice from experts that will help you navigate your own experience with positivity and confidence.
Nobody Tells You will give you all the tools you need to be informed and prepared for one of life's great journeys. Without any scaremongering or sugar coating, truths are shared about topics including:
* Trying to conceive
* C-Sections
* Postnatal recovery
* Not loving breastfeeding
* Self-care
* And many, many more!
Inspired by her own experience and frustration at the lack of honest information, Becca Maberly, pregnancy and postnatal expert and the founder of A Mother Place, and Roger Marwood, an obstetrician and gynaecologist, compiled this collection about the highs and lows of the unique and often nerve-wracking experience of pregnancy, childbirth and beyond.
Together, with the help of a range of contributors, they share their reliable, evidence-based advice with positivity and a good dose of humour. Whether you're just thinking about having a baby, you are already pregnant, or you have become a parent recently, this book is an invaluable guide.
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More than 100 mothers detail their pregnancy experiences in this informative and inspiring anthology from Maberly, founder of A Mother Place parenting classes and her father, gynecologist Marwood. The essays are wide-ranging in topic—conception, birth plans, labor, postnatal depression, breastfeeding—and tone, as seen in "About Pregnancy After Loss," in which Georgia Keogh-Horgan describes having another child after her firstborn died, and in "About the Bodily Fluids!" in which Hannah Rowlinson humorously outlines the mess of giving birth. Elsewhere, Olivia Dudleston sheds light on her unexpected middle-of-the-night anxieties in "You Will Worry About Your Baby." Each essay is accompanied by a photo of parents and their child, and following each piece, Maberly and Marwood dispense parenting advice in the form of lists, tips, and helpful how-tos. Maberly and Marwood live and work in England, so a few of the references will be lost on American readers (certain apps offered by the NHS, for example), but the stories of motherhood are universal. The authors' candor is refreshing ("Am I the only person who found labour a bit of a drag?"), occasionally brutal, and always encouraging. For readers thinking about having children—or already in the midst of pregnancy—this will be a treasure.
