My Body Is A Big Fat Temple : An Ordinary Story of Pregnancy and Early Motherhood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dillon, Alena.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motherhood.

Pregnancy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (142 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Woodhall Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Alena Dillon is one of my favorite writers and to read her journey through pregnancy is a great joy and heartbreak." - Amy SchumerMy Body Is A Big Fat Temple, a memoir of pregnancy and early motherhood, follows a writer as she debates having children, miscarries, faces morning sickness, uncertainty, physical impairments, labor, breastfeeding, the "baby blues," the heartache of not loving her son as she thinks she should, parenting through a plague, until finally (basically, mostly) blossoming into her new identity.The undertaking of creating life is airbrushed to preserve the ideal of motherhood, and exacerbated by a culture that dictates what women can do and how they should feel. We don't get the full story, so mothers with unromantic experiences feel like aberrations, and worse, alone. This is why the voices of women matter. The voices of mothers matter. Here's one to remind you of the important thing

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Preface

Part I: Pre-Pregnancy

Puppy Love

What to Expect When You're Expected to Expect

Letter to My Husband

Part II: First Trimester

On Losing Someone You Weren't Sure You Wanted

You Make Me Sick

First Look

Letter to My Changing Body

Part III: Second Trimester

Big Sky Country Meets Big Me

A Womb of One's Own

Oh Boy

Listeria Hysteria

Letter to Baby

Part IV: Third Trimester

Second Letter to My Body

What to Doula

Ache You Tailfeather

Love at First Touch

On the First Day of Christmas, Do Not Say to Me

Farewell to Breasts

In My Condition

Letter to a Beautiful Stranger

My Body Is a Big Fat Temple

Letter to My Baby on a Day I'm Feeling Uniquely Meditative

Part V: Fourth Trimester

Labor Day

A Rant about the Husband's Stitch Which I Didn't Get, But Many Women Do

Feeding Frenzy

Baby Blues

Letter to My Future Self

Part VI: The Rest of the First Year

Bodies in Motion

The Nest

Letter to Women Who Fear Childbirth

Part VII: Beyond

Mothering in the Time of Coronavirus

A Reflection on the First Two Years

Acknowledgements

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Dillon, Alena My Body Is A Big Fat Temple

ISBN:

9781949116885

OCLC:

1287136714