![]() ![]() Some revel in labor, some fear labor, some feel defeated by labor, some are fulfilled by it―and all are amazed by it. These women give birth in the hospital, at home, in bathtubs, and, yes, even in the car. In Labor Day, you'll read about women determined to give birth naturally and others begging for epidurals women who pushed for hours and women whose labors were over practically before they'd started women giving birth to twins and to ten-pound babies. Eleanor Henderson and Anna Solomon have gathered true birth stories by women who have made self-expression their business, including Cheryl Strayed, Julia Glass, Lauren Groff, Dani Shapiro, and many other luminaries. Here is a book that transcends the limits of how-to guides and honors the act of childbirth in the twenty-first century. Bookstores are filled with month-by-month pregnancy manuals, but the shelves are virtually empty of artful, entertaining, unvarnished accounts of labor and delivery―the stories that new mothers need most. It's an elemental, almost animalistic urge―the expectant mother's hunger for birth narratives. ![]() Thirty acclaimed writers share their personal birth stories―the extraordinary, the ordinary, the terrifying, the sublime, the profane ![]()
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