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Expecting Teryk : an exceptional path to parenthood / Dawn Prince-Hughes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prince-Hughes, Dawn, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prince-Hughes, Dawn, 1964-.
- Prince-Hughes, Dawn.
- Parents--Biography.
- Parents.
- Lesbian mothers--Biography.
- Lesbian mothers.
- Autistic people--Biography.
- Autistic people.
- Parenthood.
- Pregnancy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The period just prior to the birth of one's child is a time of deep personal development. Expecting Teryk is an intimate exploration, written in the form of a letter from a parent to her future son, that reclaims a rite of passage that modern society would strip of its magic. Dawn Prince-Hughes, renowed author of Songs of a Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism, considers the ways her disabilities might inform her parenting. She candidly narrates her experience of becoming a parent as part of a lesbian couple-from meeting her partner and the questions they ask about their readiness to become parents, to the practical considerations of choosing a sperm donor. Expecting Teryk is expressed through the lens of autism as Prince-Hughes shares the unique way she sees and experiences. Contemplating the evolutionary traditions of motherhood, and embedded in the reassurances that nature offers, Expecting Teryk is a work of sensuous wonder that speaks to the deeper realities and archetypal experiences shared by all who embark on the journey of parenthood.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- PART O Your Beginnings
- My Life
- Meeting Tara
- The Dream
- PART 3 Your Family
- When I Married Tara
- Grandma Joyce
- Grandpa Ron
- Aunt Davina
- Great-Gramma Eddings
- PART 7 Getting Pregnant
- Your First Name
- Your Second Name
- Who Will Carry You?
- A Dream about You
- How Will We Get Pregnant?
- Your Sperm Donor
- The Day
- PART 9 Growing
- Knowing
- The Wild Things Come Home
- A Near-Solstice Dream
- PART O Being Born
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-8040-4020-6
- OCLC:
- 560182686
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