Bibliograph

Oh, baby!, true stories about conception, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, labor, and love, edited by Lee Gutkind and Alice Bradley ; with an introduction by Lisa Belkin

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Oh, baby!, true stories about conception, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, labor, and love, edited by Lee Gutkind and Alice Bradley ; with an introduction by Lisa Belkin

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Oh, baby!

Oclc number

890181284

Responsibility statement

edited by Lee Gutkind and Alice Bradley ; with an introduction by Lisa Belkin

Sub title

true stories about conception, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, labor, and love

Summary

In these 23 original stories, mothers and fathers from all walks of life - straight, gay, single, surrogate, biological, adoptive - explore the challenges and rewards of parenthood. Here, among other adventures, parents fall hopelessly in love with newborns, secretly fear having made huge mistakes, race to finish birthing at home before the paramedics arrive, struggle with the bureaucracy of international adoption, despair of ever getting a one-year-old to nap, are nearly broken by colic, encounter other judgmental parents in birthing class, learn how to parent children with special needs, and more. Together, these thoughtful, searing, often hilarious essays map the grand (and sometimes terrifying) journey that begins with each new life

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