From Here to Maternity: Confessions of a First Time Mother

From Here to Maternity: Confessions of a First Time Mother I loved this book! I read it in a week. Carol Weston has a wonderful writing style which makes you feel like you are just talking to your best friend. The book takes you through starting to think about pregnancy, pregnancy of her first child and adjusting to the first months of parenthood (about the first 2 years of her daughter Elizabeth). What I particularly loved about this book was the stream of consciousness. I really felt like I just was reading my older sister's journal. I'd highly recommend it to anyone thinking of having a baby, pregnant or with a newborn. It gives you great perspective and shares the challenge so many women have of balancing life and work and getting ready for a major change in your life.

Charming, funny, honest. Reassuring and encouraging for us less-than-perfect moms. Reads like good fiction, but we believe every word.

I was pregnant years ago, and boy was I afraid. From here to maternity by Carol Weston helped me greatly and made me become the wonderful mother that I am now. It gave me practical and down-to-earth advice about being a mother. I have a wonderful, smart child now, and I am the best mother I can be because of Carol.

This book was a funny look at the practicalities of planning/having a baby. Although the author really has an "ideal" job for having a baby, I still appreciated the troubles, frustrations, etc that she had. Perhaps the whole event went a little to easily and she does seem to have a perfect child and a perfect life after baby, it still inspired me that this may not be such a bad thing. A definite change from the horror stories one is so used to hearing!