Motherhood Lost

Author : Linda L. Layne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135222231
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motherhood Lost written by Linda L. Layne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 20% of all pregnancies in the U.S. end in miscarriage or stillbirth. Yet pregnancy loss is seldom acknowledged and rarely discussed. Opening the topic to a thoughtful and informed discussion, Linda Layne takes a historical look at pregnancy loss in America, reproductive technologies and the cultural responses surrounding miscarriage. Examining both support groups and the rituals they create to help couples through loss, her analysis offers valuable insight on how material culture contributes to conceptions of personhood. A fascinating examination, Motherhood Lost is also a provocative challenge to feminists and other activists to increase awareness and provide necessary support for this often hidden but critically important topic.

Author : Grace Timothy
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008271011
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost in Motherhood: The Memoir of a Woman who Gained a Baby and Lost Her Sh*t written by Grace Timothy and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published as Mum Face. Best described as The Wrong Knickers for mums, in this wry, resonant and darkly funny memoir, journalist Grace Timothy explores motherhood as an issue of identity.

Author : In Collaboration with Barbara Comstock
Publisher : Willow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780996704427
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Honoring Missed Motherhood written by In Collaboration with Barbara Comstock and published by Willow Press. This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The absence of a child or loss of a pregnancy is a void and, frequently, a profound loss experienced as a failure, a lack, a shame, something that needs to be fixed or hidden, even when it is a choice. For the most part, there is no frame, no structure, no rituals, no celebration, no acknowledgment, often even no words. It has no name, no category. The pain, loneliness and awkwardness can be unimaginable until it happens to you.What if "not children" isn't really that unusual? What if the vast majority of women have had, are having, or will have some experience of what we call missed motherhood in their lifetime, whether or not they ever have children?Based on available statistics, it appears that is the case-that as many as 75% of women in America have had or will have one or more experiences of missed motherhood at some time in their lives through miscarriage, adoption, abortion, infertility or the choice to be childfree. This is a stunning percentage! If this is true, the experience of missed motherhood appears to be as common an experience as being a mother. As a society, we need to name and include missed motherhood as part of the cultural norm, to bring it out into the open and offer effective steps for grieving and healing that go beyond what each woman can accomplish on her own. When we do this, each of us can move forward in life with passion and enthusiasm.

Author : Linda L. Layne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135222169
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motherhood Lost written by Linda L. Layne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 20% of all pregnancies in the U.S. end in miscarriage or stillbirth. Yet pregnancy loss is seldom acknowledged and rarely discussed. Opening the topic to a thoughtful and informed discussion, Linda Layne takes a historical look at pregnancy loss in America, reproductive technologies and the cultural responses surrounding miscarriage. Examining both support groups and the rituals they create to help couples through loss, her analysis offers valuable insight on how material culture contributes to conceptions of personhood. A fascinating examination, Motherhood Lost is also a provocative challenge to feminists and other activists to increase awareness and provide necessary support for this often hidden but critically important topic.

Author : Jennifer Lauck
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459617150
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Found written by Jennifer Lauck and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Found is Jennifer Lauck's sequel to her New York Times bestseller Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found. More than one woman's search for her biological parents, Found is a story of loss, adjustment, and survival. Lauck's investigation into her ow...

Author : Kelly McDaniel
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1401960863
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mother Hunger written by Kelly McDaniel and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insatiable need for sex and love. Periods of overeating or starving. A pattern of unstable and painful relationships. Does this sound painfully familiar? Trauma counselor Kelly McDaniel has seen these traits over and over in clients who feel trapped in cycles of harmful behaviors-and are unable to stop. Many of us find ourselves stuck in unhealthy habits simply because we don't see a better way. With Mother Hunger, McDaniel helps women break the cycle of destructive behavior by taking a fresh look at childhood trauma and its lasting impact. In doing so, she destigmatizes the shame that comes with being under-mothered and misdiagnosed. McDaniel offers a healing path with powerful tools that include therapeutic interventions and lifestyle changes in service to healthy relationships. The constant search for mother love can be a lifelong emotional burden, but healing begins with knowing and naming what we are missing. McDaniel is the first clinician to identify Mother Hunger, which demystifies the search for love and provides the compass that each woman needs to end the struggle with achy, lonely emptiness, and come home to herself.

Author : Emily Jensen
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736986340
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Risen Motherhood (Deluxe Edition) written by Emily Jensen and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS HIGHLY GIFTABLE DELUXE EDITION OF THE BESTSELLER INCLUDES THREE ALL-NEW CHAPTERS Motherhood is hard. In a world of five-step lists and silver-bullet solutions to become perfect parents, mothers are burdened with mixed messages about who they are and what choices they should make. If you feel pulled between high-fives and hard words, with culture’s solutions only raising more questions, you’re not alone. But there is hope. You might think that Scripture doesn’t have much to say about the food you make for breakfast, how you view your postpartum body, or what school choice you make for your children, but a deeper look reveals that the Bible provides the framework for finding answers to your specific questions about modern motherhood. Emily Jensen and Laura Wifler help you understand and apply the gospel to common issues moms face so you can connect your Sunday morning faith to the Monday morning tantrum. Discover how closely the gospel connects with today’s motherhood. Join Emily and Laura as they walk through the redemptive story and reveal how the gospel applies to your everyday life, bringing hope, freedom, and joy in every area of motherhood.

Author : Ann Campanella
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781370041145
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motherhood written by Ann Campanella and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motherhood: Lost and Found takes the reader on a journey where Alzheimer's disease and infertility intersect. At age 33, award-winning author and poet Ann Campanella returns to her home state of North Carolina ready to build a horse farm and start a family. Ann's foundation is shaken when she experiences multiple miscarriages at the same time her mother spirals into Alzheimer's. The author's devotion to her family and her horse Crimson sustain her as her mother's illness progresses and her own window of potential motherhood begins to close. The voice in Ann's memoir has been called constant and abiding, her imagery indelible. Her graceful, exacting language rises above the grief of infertility and the struggle to care for aging parents, connecting the reader ultimately to the heartbeat and resilience of the human experience. This memoir was a finalist in the Next Generation Independent Book Awards, the world's largest not-for-profit independent book awards.Praise for Motherhood: Lost and Found include:"Ann Campanella's Motherhood: Lost and Found is a chronicle of family tragedy and triumph told in some of the most truly lyrical writing you'll ever encounter. She writes of grief and loss with heart wrenching honesty but without sentimentality then adds humor in such unexpected places I found myself laughing and crying all on the same page. This is the best memoir I've read in years...."- Judith Minthorn Stacy, author of Maggie Sweet, winner of the Carolina Novel Award"The book is about ... the love of a family ... and how that love sustained them during a long and painful crisis, and how Ann's relationship with her husband Joel was deepened and enriched by that crisis, and how three generations are better than two. Motherhood: Lost and Found has much to teach us all as human beings."- Anthony (Tony) Abbott, Professor Emeritus at Davidson College, author of Leaving Maggie Hope, winner of the Novello Festival Press Book Award"A sensitive, in-depth study of one woman's slow descent into Alzheimer's as detailed by her daughter, Motherhood: Lost and Found involves us in the dynamic of a multi-generational family as well as the author's own story: horses, poetry, three terrible miscarriages, and in her 41st year, a final miracle." - Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer Prize winning poet"Ann Campanella's Motherhood: Lost and Found records the ordinary and extraordinary courage of those who must endure debilitating, even crushing illness and those who must suffer with them while they do so. Here is bravery, patience, reconciliation, and -- at long last -- hope. I found this story valuable in an intensely personal way. I think others readers will find it so too."- Fred Chappell, former Poet Laureate of North Carolina"It is the gift of a lifetime. Nothing I have ever read has affected me more deeply or made me more thankful that I am alive. You have made your place ... into your place on earth. And you have welcomed us - all of us - into it.... Through your book, you have made it ours. The voice in the book is constant. Faithful, I should say...You have delved into the scarcest moments and found the Abiding. Something as fundamental as fire - and earth and water and air. As death and love, as death and love and death and love again."- Mike Martin, writer and artist"I was so deeply touched by this memoir. Anyone with children or aging parents will be moved by this searingly honest story. Ann struggled with infertility at the same time she was trying to care for her mother with Alzheimer's. In a clear-eyed way, she explores how her family navigated the suffering caused by her mother's illness, and her own heartbreak of multiple miscarriages. Every sentence is beautifully crafted, with a poet's attention...

Author : Sheila Heti
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1627790780
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motherhood written by Sheila Heti and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time Magazine) and the New York Times Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring novel about whether to have children. In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with the candor, originality, and humor that have won Heti international acclaim and made How Should A Person Be? required reading for a generation. In her late thirties, when her friends are asking when they will become mothers, the narrator of Heti’s intimate and urgent novel considers whether she will do so at all. In a narrative spanning several years, casting among the influence of her peers, partner, and her duties to her forbearers, she struggles to make a wise and moral choice. After seeking guidance from philosophy, her body, mysticism, and chance, she discovers her answer much closer to home. Motherhood is a courageous, keenly felt, and starkly original novel that will surely spark lively conversations about womanhood, parenthood, and about how—and for whom—to live.

Author : Emma Hansen
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1771643927
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still written by Emma Hansen and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-04 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Still is one of those rare books that catches you up and does not let you go. With grace, courage, and honesty, Emma Hansen adds an important voice to this tragic and too-often silenced subject. I loved this book.” —Beth Powning, author of Shadow Child: An Apprenticeship in Love and Loss A moving, candid account of one woman’s experience with stillbirth. Emma Hansen is 39 weeks and 6 days pregnant when she feels her baby go quiet inside of her. At the hospital, her worst fears are confirmed: doctors explain that her baby has died, and she will need to deliver him, still. Hansen gives birth to her son, Reid, amidst an avalanche of grief. Nine days later, she publishes a candid essay on her website sharing photos from the delivery room. Much to her surprise, her essay goes viral, sparking positive reactions around the world. Still shares what comes next: a struggle with grief and confusion alongside a desire to better understand stillbirth, which is experienced by more than two million women annually, but rarely talked about in public. At once honest, brave, and uplifting, Still is about one woman’s search for her own definition of motherhood, even as she faces one of life’s greatest challenges: learning to live after loss.