Life After Birth

This is the first thoroughly honest book to chart the changes that motherhood brings. Using interviews and medical and anthropoloical research as well as her own personal experience, Kate Figes examines the physical, psychological, emotional, social and sexual consequences of childbirth. She describes the extreme emotions, exhaustion  and upheaval of new motherhood and the way that relationships with friends, family and the father of the child alter. She shows how the experience of motherhood has changed historically, making certain aspects of adjustment harder for women today.

The changes of motherhood are so profound that it takes time to adapt. With this definitive, encouraging and often funny book, new mothers will find practical advice and immense reassurance from the certain knowledge that things can only get better.