Making babies : stumbling into motherhood / Anne Enright.
Author: Enright, Anne, 1962-
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton, 2012.
ISBN: 9780393078282 (hbk.)
0393078280 (hbk.)
Description: 207 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject: Motherhood.
Parenting.
Notes: Copyright 2004.
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.
