Bibliograph

Making babies, stumbling into motherhood, Anne Enright

Type

Label

Making babies, stumbling into motherhood, Anne Enright

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Making babies

Oclc number

755704949

Responsibility statement

Anne Enright

Sub title

stumbling into motherhood

Summary

Describes the author's experiences becoming a middle-aged mother after being married for eighteen years

Table Of Contents

Apologies all round -- Breeding -- The glass wall -- Dream-time -- Birth -- Milk -- Nine months -- Time -- Advice -- Being two -- Groundhog day -- Science -- Babies : a breeder's guide -- God -- Buggies -- Staring -- Home birth -- Wriggles -- Naming -- Burps -- Hands -- Girl / Boy -- Crying -- Evolution -- Authority -- Poo -- Smell -- Too much information -- Baby-talk -- The killing cup -- Kissing -- How to panic -- Romance -- The lip of the rug -- By the time you read this, it will be true -- Staring, Part 2 -- What's wrong with velcro? -- Unforgiven -- Fair -- Second pregnancies -- Siblings -- Toys -- Dirt -- Other mothers, other fathers -- How to get trolleyed while breast-feeding -- Entertaining -- On giving birth to a genius -- Dreams -- Speech -- On being loved -- It's not about you, you know -- It's not about you, you know, Part 2 -- The moment -- Worry -- Forgetting -- What it does -- Oh, mortality -- Acknowledgements

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