The Second Nine Months: One Woman Tells the Real Truth about Becoming a Mom. Finally.

I LOVED this book. After being successful at nearly EVERYTHING I ever did hearing things like "It changes your life but in a good way" made me confident that not only would I love being a mother I would excel. How dead wrong I was. No one prepared me for the challenges of motherhood- not even my own mother or my closest friends. My child did not have colic and I was not post pardom- believe me I know I was in therapy. Having a child is culture shock and I wish I had an honest account of what motherhood was like. Being blessed with a "healthy" baby that I got to sleep within 8 weeks was not enough for me to "love" being a mother. It was a struggle. I would have walked through fire to save my child but mostly wanted to escape to Mexico. This book is a heart felt admission to one women's struggles and I wish more women and mothers were honest about the joys and pitfalls of the newest and hardest job you will ever have in your life. And it does not make anyone a "bad" person or mother to admit!

I read this book on the recommendation of a friend. Both of us had babies in Dec. 2007 and were struggling with something between blues and PPD. I laughed, I cried, I nodded, I read out loud to my husband - and I couldn't stop turning the pages. At the end, I wanted to hug Ms. Glembocki. Hands-down the best book I have read about being a new mother (and it seems I've read all of them).

Simply put, I loved this book. I have an almost 7 month old baby, and could relate to so many of the things the author had to say. Some of the chapters were pretty much snapshots of my own life with a baby. Glembocki wrote an amazingly honest book, and as a new mom, I really appreciate that. I recommend this book to all new moms who are wondering if the things that they're feeling are normal- don't worry, they are!

My son is 8 months, and I wish I had this book 8 months ago! It totally cracked me up and also just made me feel like I wasn't the only woman on the planet who was kind of freaking out about this whole new mom thing. Worth every penny!

I picked up this book and could not put it down until I'd finished it. Glembocki has a real gift for being brutally honest - saying what so many people think but rarely utter - and doing so in a really hilarious and page-turning way. Memoirs can often seem cheesy or self-aggrandizing and this was neither. Sometimes shocking, often funny, extremely well written, and very moving.