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The Education of a Rookie Mom...At last, a deeply funny look at the modern motherhood experience?a book that lays it all on the changing table.
Broadway
April 2005
208 pages
ISBN: 0767916948
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
When Beth Teitell first learned she was pregnant, her mind
raced
with important questions: Does a handful of Milk Duds count
as a
serving of calcium? Where do movie stars buy their
maternity clothes,
and is $95 way too much to spend on a cotton T-shirt if
you’re not
routinely–okay, ever–photographed by paparazzi? Then, just
as she was
beginning to imagine her maternity leave as a long, paid
vacation from
work, a time to catch up on reading and old movies, she was
caught
completely off guard–by the arrival of a baby. And then the
trouble
really began.
From Here to Maternity offers a
hilarious,
highly perceptive look at the experience of becoming a mom,
exposing
the secrets of modern parenting that your doctor will fail
to warn you
about and your fellow mothers will be too embarrassed to
admit. From
learning “The Rules” for playdating other mommies, to
figuring out the
New Mommy Math (a half hour of educational TV only counts
as ten
minutes toward your child’s daily allowance), Teitell
explores what
it’s like to be a mother in a culture responsible for
strollers that
cost as much as a month’s rent. Chock-full of practical
advice on
motherhood’s biggest challenges–what to sing if you don’t
know any
lullabies (the Brady Bunch theme song is a perfectly
valid
choice); the delicate art of picking up babysitters; and
the ethics of
returning a baby gift in order to buy yourself a little
present with
the merchandise credit–From Here to Maternity tells
it like it is with consummate style and laugh-out-loud
irreverence.
A winning, utterly original look at the
lighter side of the most serious job on earth, From Here
to Maternity is the ultimate treat for mothers
everywhere–second only to a hot bath and the phone number
of a good babysitter.
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