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The Second Nine Months: One Woman Tells the REAL Truth About Becoming a Mom. Finally. | 
 enlarge | Author: Vicki Glembocki
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 42627
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.1
ISBN: 073821101X
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.8743
EAN: 9780738211015
ASIN: 073821101X
Publication Date: January 7, 2008
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I want to walk out of Target and leave Blair there, wailing.... Nice people work at Target. Surely someone would take her home and care for her and buy her pretty things. So begins Vicki Glembocki’s brutally honest yet hilarious memoir of her agonizing transition into motherhood. Why agonizing? Because no one told her how tough it would be. Finally, Glembocki lays out the truth about those first months with baby: the certainty that you’re doing everything wrong; the desire to kill your husband, your mother, your dog; the struggle to balance who you were with whom you’ve become-a mother. Unlike any other book on motherhood, Glembocki breaks the New Mother Code of Silence, proving that “maternal bliss” is not innate, but learned. Funny and wise, she connects with new moms on a shockingly intimate level, letting them know that they are not alone.
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 this isn't Martha Stewart Baby July 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Possibly the perfect antidote to the Bliss Campaign oozing out of every Johnson & Johnson commercial, every Baby Gap ad, every tabloid cover sporting some headline like "motherhood is just the bestest feeling that ever was!!", and to Babycenter.com. Of the latter, the list below is taken from that website and is as it appears in the book:
1. You finally stop to smell the roses, because your baby is in your arms.
3. The sacrifices you thought you made to have a child no longer seem like sacrifices.
4. You respect your body ... finally.
10. You think of someone else 234,836,178,976 times a day.
13. You look at your baby in the mirror instead of yourself.
14. You become a morning person.
The way she tears it apart, I'm surprised they haven't taken the list down in retreat. In short, this book is a buffer between yourself and the elusive rose garden promised and promoted by various media. Highly recommended.
Good Book July 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just finished this book--and I wish i had read it sooner. My daughter is 2 now but it was a lonely first go at motherhood for me. While I did not feel all of what she felt, I absolutely could relate to many of the books' chapters. Especially the part about the PROGRESSION of motherhood for some of us---how we wish we knew then what we know now---it gets easier, and it is a blessing and fun---but it is not like that 100% of the time--and that is OK. What guts it took to write this book. THANK YOU for doing that!!
Laugh Out Loud Funny June 4, 2008
I loved this book, as a mother of a 7 month old I could relate to everything she said. It was so true and hilariously funny. I loved this book and I'm giving a copy to all my friends. I am hoping that she writes a second book, "The First Year". I would definately buy it.
Honest and Honestly Well Overdue May 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My oldest child is now 10 years old. But reading this book brought back the brutal reality that I felt all those years ago.
Kudos to the author for exposing her deepest feelings of inadequacy and "bad mommy" moments. I myself was plagued with the same thoughts.
It does get easier as your child gets older. I myself did not bond with my firstborn until he was at least 5 months old. Take heart new moms, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Great book!
Zoloft for the soul! May 14, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Great read! My husband and I always joke about how the difficulties of tending to a newborn are the "great conspiracy." Everyone told us how hard it was AFTER our daughter arrived. I remember running into a neighbor with a six-month old when my daughter was not even six-weeks old, and she commented how no one can really explain how hard it is until you get there. That is probably why pregnant women are not enamored with Ms. Glembocki's literary efforts. Even in her book, when Vicki tries to tell a pregnant stranger at the gym how tough motherhood is all she just gets is a cold shoulder. But, really, you have to have gone through it to get it. Some people, I am sure, are blessed with the "fantasy baby" - but most of us, I think, experience something more akin to Vicki and Thad's metamorphous. Kudos to Ms. Glembocki for opening Pandora's Box.
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