"Feeding" is just as unsparing: cracked nipples, milk that won't come, the tyranny of triple feeding, and the strange, consuming intimacy of nursing, which several writers describe as both the most hated and most loved act of their early motherhood. Editors Knight and Buntin began this project in their "fourth trimesters," when they began "comparing notes" on the tremendous changes wrought by labor, birth, and life with a newborn.
Editors Knight and Buntin began this project in their "fourth trimesters," when they began "comparing notes" on the tremendous changes wrought by labor, birth, and life with a newborn.
The result gathers 60 accomplished writers in short, "digestible" pieces "better suited to the fragmented hours of new parenthood" than long-form essays.
What emerges across these chapters, which extend into "Hurting," "Loving," "Tending," and "Working," is remarkably unsentimental.
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Editors Knight and Buntin began this project in their "fourth trimesters," when they began "comparing notes" on the tremendous changes wrought by labor, birth, and life with a newborn. The result gathers 60 accomplished writers in short, "digestible" pieces "better suited to the fragmented hours of new parenthood" than long-form essays. What emerges across these chapters, which extend into "Hurting," "Loving," "Tending," and "Working," is remarkably unsentimental.
"Feeding" is just as unsparing: cracked nipples, milk that won't come, the tyranny of triple feeding, and the strange, consuming intimacy of nursing, which several writers describe as both the most hated and most loved act of their early motherhood. Several admit to the limits of language itself.
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