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English

LIKE A MOTHER

Angela Garbes

A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

What to read after What to Expect . . . . A badass, feminist, and personal deep-dive into the science and culture of pregnancy and early motherhood that debunks myths and dated assumptions, offering guidance and camaraderie to women navigating one of the biggest and most profound changes in their lives.

Angela Garbes offers a rigorously researched and compelling look at the physiology, biology, chemistry, and psychology of pregnancy and motherhood, informed by research, reportage, and her own experience. With a journalist's curiosity and discipline, a mother's urgency, and a food writer's insatiability, she explores the science behind the pressing questions women have about a number of subjects, including postpartum hormones, breast milk, and miscarriage.

Angela Garbes was a staff writer at Seattle newsweekly The Stranger and continues to contribute food and feature stories.

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Book Published 2018-05-01 by HarperWave

Comments

After reading Angela Garbes' thorough, scientific investigation into the biology and business of pregnancy, you may find yourself picking up the phone to call your mom . . . just to say thanks. Nonpregnant and a nonmother, I still found this book fascinating. My favorite part? Learning that the placenta is an entirely new, roughly 2-pound organ that the female body creates during pregnancy to feed itself and the baby. Justwow. (NPR best books of the year round-up)

Garbes has created an empowering resource. . . . In each chapter, she shares up-to-date, well-substantiated information about women's physical and mental health, aiming to help readers reduce their anxiety and make truly informed choices. . . . She approaches the complex topic of risk with introspection rather than judgement. . . . Garbes makes space to talk intimately about her most distressing experiences as a mother, such as the grief of miscarriage and the terror of losing control when labor does not go to plan. Throughout this thoughtful book, she speaks to her readers as peers, providing affirmation that their experiences are important and that they are not alone.

"he More I Learn About Breast Milk, the More Amazed I Am" Read more...

LIKE A MOTHER is a deeply-researched history of human reproduction; it is a jewel-bright memoir; it is hard science beautifully translated; it is funny; it is intersectional; it will crack you open and fill you with awe. Required reading for mothers, and double-required for everyone else. Lindy West

I also read Angela Garbes's LIKE A MOTHER, the very human look at the science of pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood. Angela is a dream teacher and writer for someone like me, who loves a story but isn't an experienced reader of science. Read more...

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