A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood by Lisa Catherine Harper is a wonderful book.
With absolutely beautiful prose, Harper discusses the ups — such as sharing the news with others, seeing the first ultrasound, feeling the first movement, and first time she saw her baby — with the downs, such as debilitating sciatica, sleeplessness, food aversions, nausea, prolonged labor.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to remember that first nine of months of motherhood (and the last segment is even devoted to the “Fourth Trimester,” as those first 3 months out of the womb are often called). I also think that this would make a fabulous gift for a mother-to-be, whether it’s her first pregnancy or her fourth, or even to a grandmother-to-be, so that she can remember her own pregnancy as she’s living her daughter’s.
Read my full review over at 5 Minutes for Mom, and enter to win a copy as well.
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