Expectations: Thirty Women Talk About Becoming a Mother

by Laurie Wagner, Anne Hamersky (Photographer)

When a Woman gives birth to a child, her life is altered forever. Expectations explores this momentous event through the words and images of thirty new mothers. Presenting profoundly touching interviews and dynamic photographs of mother and child, Laurie Wagner and Anne Hamersky - both with young ones themselves - offer a new view of motherhood in all its contradictions and contentment. There are as many mothering stories as there are mothers, and these moms talk about all the joys and hardships of being a new parent, whether the child is adopted or not, healthy or sickly, one-of-a-kind or a twin or even a triplet, an only child or a sibling. Mothers from a range of cultures, races, and cities candidly discuss raising the next generation.

Hardcover

First published March 1, 1998

Reviews

[Betty Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved quite a few of these. Two in particular really struck me and I nearly cried.