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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorWhat I Thought I Knew: A Memoir
Alice Eve Cohen · 194 pages
A personal and medical odyssey beyond anything most women would believe possibleAt age forty-four, Alice Eve Cohen was happy for the first time in years. After a difficult divorce, she was engaged to an inspiring man, joyfully raising her adopted daughter, and her career was blossoming. Alice tells her fiance that shes never been happier. And then the stomach pains begin. In her unflinchingly hone
Misconception: One Couple's Journey from Embryo Mix-up to Miracle Baby
Paul Morell, Shannon Morell, Angela Elwell Hunt
The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
Belle Boggs · 242 pages
"A brilliant exploration of the natural, medical, psychological, and political facets of fertility"--Back cover.
The Baby Trail
Sinead Moriarty · 320 pages
Early thirtysomething Emma decides it's time to have the baby - but it just doesn't happen to order. Emma goes through a funny, touching and ultimately moving journey as she struggles to accept the reality that maybe it's never going to happen. The Baby Trail is a novel rich in texture, light and dark, and humour with a biting undercurrent.
Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag
A.K. Summers · 122 pages
The author explores, in graphic novel memoir format, her adventures of being a butch/dyke and becoming pregnant, while dealing with the stereotypes and judgment of those around her.
Instant Mom
Nia Vardalos · 282 pages
Writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Nia Vardalos firmly believed she was supposed to be a mom, but Mother Nature and modern medicine stood in her way. So she made a choice that shocked friends, family, and even herself: with only fourteen hours' notice, she adopted a preschooler. This is Vardalos's hilarious and poignant true chronicle of trying to become a mother while fielding nosy "fre
The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir
Patricia Harman · 290 pages
In Patricia Harman’s exam room, patients open their hearts. Harman, a nurse-midwife, manages a private practice with her husband, an ob-gyn, in Torrington, West Virginia—a practice now providing only gynecological exams and first trimester care because they’ve been forced by escalating malpractice insurance costs to give up delivering babies. Despite this, the women who sit before her receive nurt
Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression
Brooke Shields · 226 pages
When Brooke Shields welcomed her newborn daughter, Rowan Francis, into the world, a crippling depression followed. In DOWN CAME THE RAIN, Brooke writes about the tribulations, depression, and, ultimately, the triumphs that happened before and after the birth. With a knowledgeable voice and a self-deprecating sense of humor, Brooke discusses her battle with postpartum depression, a disorder that ha
The Midwife's Here! The Enchanting True Story of One of Britain's Longest Serving Midwives
Linda Fairley
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson · 160 pages
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of “autotheory” offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author’s relationship with artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes the author’s account of falling in love with Dodge, as well as her journe
The Hospital by the River
Catherine Hamlin, John Little · 320 pages
The Camera My Mother Gave Me
Susanna Kaysen · 168 pages
"The Camera My Mother Gave Me takes us through Susanna Kaysen's often comic, sometimes surreal encounters with all kinds of doctors - internists, gynecologists, "alternative health" experts - as well as with her boyfriend and her friends, when suddenly, inexplicably, "something went wrong" with her vagina."--BOOK JACKET.
Knocked Up: Confessions of a Modern Mother-to-be
Rebecca Eckler · 384 pages
A Midwife's Story
Sheryl Feldman, Penny Armstrong · 194 pages
Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood
Anne Enright · 208 pages
Ironische beschouwingen over zwangerschap en moederschap.
The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
Jennifer Worth · 471 pages
An unforgettable story of the joy of motherhood, the bravery of a community, and the hope of one extraordinary womanAt the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies all over London—from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives to th
Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood
Sandra Steingraber · 342 pages
Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey Across the Life Line
Abby Johnson · 288 pages
Abby Johnson quit her job in October 2009. That simple act became a national news story because Abby was director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas who, not long after assisting in an actual abortion procedure for the first time, crossed the line to join the Coalition for Life. What happened in that clinic to cause this Planned Parenthood leader and Employee of the Year to take such drastic
Inconceivable: A Medical Mistake, the Baby We Couldn't Keep, and Our Choice to Deliver the Ultimate Gift
Carolyn Savage, Sean Savage
Going Off Script: How I Survived a Crazy Childhood, Cancer, and Clooney's 32 On-Screen Rejections
Giuliana Rancic · 269 pages
"A funny, warm, and inspiring memoir from E! News host, Fashion Police panelist, red-carpet correspondent, author, and reality show star Giuliana Rancic.Giuliana Rancic is best known for interviewing A-listers on E! News and the red carpet, skewering their most questionable sartorial decisions on Fashion Police, and giving viewers a front-row seat to her marriage and home life on her reality show,
Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body
Sara Pascoe · 336 pages
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
Melinda Gates · 288 pages