mama, bare: the birth of mother

By Kristen Hedges

Stories of birth are celebrated and shared freely, as they should be. But the hollow moments afterward - the first day, the first week, the first month - are a strange and foreign place to be, and are hardly talked about at all. In our opinion, this leaves new mothers feeling forced to carry on as if nothing much has changed. They stumble into motherhood blindly, uncomfortable in new skin, fumbling with the wanting body of a newborn, and the birth of a Mother, and the death of an Ego. This book is a collection of fleeting moments. Moments of birth, of death, of swelling spirits and overflowing joy. Moments that turn our hearts to honey. Moments that shatter us. That stitch us back together, stronger, wiser, more beautiful. That illuminate the path to healing. The moments when we became Mother. More than anything, our hope is that you hold this book in your palms and feel that it is holding you, too.This is our heart in your hands. Treat it gently, as you would your own.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512203424
• ISBN13: 9781512203424
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.4" x 8.3"