Life After Birth: What Even Your Friends Won't Tell You About Motherh Ood

This is the first thoroghly honest book to chart the changes of motherhood. Using interviews, medical and anthropological research as well as her own personal experience, Kate Figes examines the physical, psychological, emotional, social and sexual consequences of childbirth. She describes the extreme emotions, the exhaustion and upheaval of new motherhood and the way that relations with friends, family and the father of the child alter. With this definitive, encouraging and often funny book, new mothers will find practical advice and immense reassurance from the certain knowledge that things can only get better.