Mum Face: The Memoir of a Woman who Gained a Baby and Lost Her Sh*t. Grace Timothy
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Название: Mum Face: The Memoir of a Woman who Gained a Baby and Lost Her Sh*t
Автор: Grace Timothy
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары
isbn: 9780008271015
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This book is dedicated to my girl, of course. Kid, you made me as much as I made you, and the world is so much better with you in it. I love you. Thanks for your patience, your joyousness and your helpful notes. You’re already wise and funny beyond your years. I’m excited about you, bubs – go get it.
CONTENTS
2. THE SECOND TRIMESTER/DENIAL
3. THE THIRD TRIMESTER/ACCEPTANCE
13. I EVENTUALLY SELF-SOOTHE, I THINK
I attempt to sit still, to look as relaxed and open as possible, but I’m on one of those chairs that leans back on a bendy frame. You know the ones? That kind of plastic-looking blonde wood with a creamy-coloured leather cushion. I looked it up online after our session – it’s from IKEA (obviously) and it’s called ‘Poang’, which is Swedish for ‘point’. As in, what’s the point? I think people buy them as nursing chairs, too.
Well, I would have lost a nipple if I’d tried to breastfeed in this chair, let me tell you. My stomach muscles were shot to hell once I’d given birth and I’d have been about as steady on a rocking chair as a drunken eel. Plus, my vagina was so mashed up, the idea of grinding it back and forth on a beech veneer would have broken me for good. I definitely СКАЧАТЬ