What Mothers Do
Especially When It Looks Like Nothing
by
Naomi Stadlen
Piatkus 2004
Publication price: £9.99
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.piatkus.co.uk and www.amazon.co.uk.
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