Download Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today's Best Women Writers AudioBook Free
It's an elemental, almost animalistic craving - the expectant mother's appetite for birth narratives. Bookstores are filled with month-by-month pregnancy guides, but the racks are virtually empty of artful, amusing, unvarnished accounts of labor and delivery - the tales that new moms need most. Here's an audiobook that transcends the restrictions of how-to tutorials and honors the take action of childbirth in the 21st century. Eleanor Henderson and Anna Solomon have accumulated true birth tales by women who've made self-expression their business, including Cheryl Strayed, Julia Glass, Lauren Groff, Dani Shapiro, and many other luminaries. In Labor Day, you'll notice about women driven to give birth naturally and others begging for epidurals; women who pressed all night and women whose labors were over almost before they'd started out; women giving birth to twins also to 10-pound newborns. These women give birth in the hospital, at home, in bathtubs, and, yes, even in the car. Some revel in labor, some fear labor, some feel defeated by labor, some are fulfilled by it - and all are amazed by it. You will laugh, weep, squirm, perhaps groan in reputation, and undoubtedly gasp with wonder. And then you'll call every mother or mother-to-be that you know and say "You must notice Labor Day."
