The Birth Of A Mother: How The
Motherhood Experience Changes
You Forever by Nadia Bruschweiler-
stern
An Amazing Book!
From the renowned infant psychiatrist and author of the classic Diary of a
Baby comes the first book to address the unique psychological
transformation that occurs in women when they become mothers.
According to Dr. Daniel Stern, pregnancy and motherhood can have an
enormous psychologically transforming effect on women, who find
themselves guided by new hopes fears, and priorities. Yet these dramatic
and frequently overwhelming emotional transformations often go
unexplored in favor of discussions of morning sickness, exhaustion, and
the relative merits of nursing and bottle feeding. Based on interviews with
hundreds of women, The Birth of a Mother paints a wonderfully evocative
portrait that gives voice to those unexpressed thoughts, feelings, and fears

that accompany motherhood. The book is an invaluable sourcebook for
new mothers, validating the often confusing emotions that accompany the
development of their new identities, as well as a resource that helps
prepare pregnant women for the life-changing journey they are about to
begin.
Personal Review: The Birth Of A Mother: How The Motherhood
Experience Changes You Forever by Nadia Bruschweiler-stern
"The Birth Of A Mother" is an important contribution to the literature about
parenthood. How rare and wonderful that a book about mothering (and
fathering) embraces the challenges of bonding with and raising a child with
special needs. The authors help us consider how through the entwined
mysteries of love and biology, an ordinary man and woman procreate a
child. What is less obvious but no less profound is how a singular child
gives birth to two parents. For at the moment of birth a woman becomes a
mother, a man becomes a father, and two new fundamental identities
begin to emerge. The heart of the book is the enchanting description of
the psychological birth of the mother in the months that precede and follow
the birth of her baby.
Through hundreds of interviews with new mothers and decades of clinical
experience, the authors demonstrate conclusively how a woman's mental
life changes fundamentally with the arrival of a baby. The striking change
in perspective includes the shift from being a daughter to being a mother,
becoming a part of the broad community of mothers, seeing one's husband
become a father, forming a mother-father-child triangle, and an altered set
of sensibilities that are brought to bear on every sight, sound, and smell of
the new mother. In today's society, the new mother balances baby and
career as she also finds a new role in her family of origin. A new era
begins in the mother=s life as she counts time with a private calendar that
is marked with her baby's age and developmental milestones.
Parents, clinicians, researchers, and academicians will all find lasting value
here for their day-to-day lives. Uniquely in this volume, any reader can
conceptualize the parents of children with special needs within the
developmental spectrum of the parenting experience. In a broad sense,
no child is perfect, and it is the bond that attaches the parent and the child
that will sustain families over the long haul. How these passions develop
has uniqueness and similarities for parents with children developing
typically as well as those with special needs. In all cases, the infant
cradled in the parent's arms is different to some degree, small or large,
from the child fantasized in the mind, and the reconciliation of these
images is central in the daily work of parenting.
Robert Naseef, Ph.D. is a nationally recognized psychologist specializing
in families of children with special needs. He is the author of the highly
regarded "Special Children, Challenged Parents: The Struggles and
Rewards of Raising a Child With a Disability" (2001, Brookes Publishing).
On the web at www.alternativechoices.com

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