Becoming a Mother, Remembering your Self

ISBN 9780958490719
The unplanned arrival of her baby daughter was a daunting, amazing and confusing event for 39-year-old first-time mother, Anet Ahern. This book is about how she kept her sense of self and includes the strategies and tools she used to balance her high-powered career in finance, and her new responsibilities and lifestyle changes.

Anet discovered that new mothers can spend less time worrying and more time enjoying their pregnancy and new baby if they realise that:
•    There is more than one perfect way to do most things in life, which goes for routines, breastfeeding, the birth process…
•    No one really knows how to be a parent – we all simply make it up as we go along.
•    Becoming a mother is sometimes a truly frightening experience and is amazingly uplifting and enjoyable for the rest.
•    At times a new mother can be truly lonely, even when she has the most supportive partner.
•    Mothers get incredibly tired, no matter how much help they have.
•    Having it all comes at a price, and hard choices need to be made.
•    Society places wholly unrealistic expectations on women, and it is our responsibility to develop and be confident with our own expectations.

Becoming a Mother, Remembering your Self will help you find your own way along the journey to motherhood, in as guilt-free and calm a way as possible.

Find out more about Anet here.
  • Title: Becoming a Mother, Remembering your Self
  • Author: Anet Ahern
  • ISBN: 9780958490719
  • Book specifications: Soft cover, 240 x 168 mm, 176 pages
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I have grown incredibly attached to this book! So many common sense, simple things that we should all know, but being a new mother - what do I actually know? Zip! Just wanted to let you know that I am finding this book incredibly enlightening. I have many people telling me many different things. One of the many things I have taken from this book that certainly sticks with me, it is to take in all the advice and then chuck it out and do things my way. SC

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