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

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

Dillon, Alena

Paperback

Biographies GeneralWomen's HealthGeneral Parenting

ISBN10: 1949116875
ISBN13: 9781949116878
Publisher: Woodhall Press
Published: Oct 12 2021
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
GOLD MEDAL WINNER for BEST SELF-ESTEEM Category in the GLOBAL BOOK AWARDS 2025. Alena Dillon is one of my favorite writers and to read her journey through pregnancy is a great joy and heartbreak. - Amy Schumer My 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

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