What Mothers Do

Especially When It Looks Like Nothing

by Naomi Stadlen

Piatkus 2004 Publication price:   £9.99 
             2005  Edition                  £8.99
             Kindle Edition                  £4.99 

 
What Mothers Do has been written to support mothers. Naomi Stadlen draws on many years’ work with hundreds of other mothers of a wide variety of ages and backgrounds. She explores mothers’ experiences to reveal what they are doing when it may look, to everyone else, like nothing.
 

Chapter titles:
 
Introduction
1 Who understands?
2 ‘Nothing prepares you’
3 ‘All the responsibility’
4 ‘Being instantly interruptible’
5 The power of comfort
6 ‘I get nothing done all day’
7 So tired I could die
8 What do babies seem to want?
9 What is motherly love?
10 ‘I was surprised that I still had the same name’
11 ‘Snapping at my partner’
12 Closer to my mother
Epilogue: Circles of mothers

Copies of What Mothers Do can be ordered online from www.littlebrown.co.uk and www.amazon.co.uk. A Kindle edition will be available in July 2012.

What Mothers Do has now been translated into Spanish:

Lo Que Hacen Las Madres
Sobre todo cuando parece que no hacen nada
Naomi Stadlen, traducción Elena Barrutia Garcia
2005 Ediciones Urano, Barcelona
ISBN 84–7953–595–4 


What Mothers Do has also been translated into Greek.

 

 

 

 

 

What Mothers Do has been translated into Japanese by Poplar Publishing Co. Ltd, Tokyo.





 

 

A translation into Romanian, Ce fac mamele, will be published by Litera Publications, Bucharest.

A translation into Hebrew will be published by Achiasaf Publishing House Ltd, Israel.

A translation into Italian will be published by Bonomi Editore, Pavia, Italy.