This is a second book in the series about Kiki. Still one to go!
"The wedding Diaries" was not a hit with me but I thought I will give a go to "The Baby Diaries". Since I have a baby myself I love reading about pregnancies, even if it is fiction. I must say, I really liked this book. It was really good to read about other person who felt almost exactly like I did, who felt scared, then excited, then scared again. It had me nodding along with agreement because I could sympathise with the Kiki and the way she feeling, I could share the birth stories and I could envy Kiki how easy her birth was. And I totally knew how it is when the hormones are taking us into their possession. This time I loved Kiki, she was much more mature than in the first book, and the conversations between her and Thom were brilliant! He was perfect, and it was really nice to read that he is not afraid to tell how he is feeling in this whole situation.
What I loved in the book is the fact that Sam Binnie has treated the pregnancy with such a humour, not serious: "I am going to be a MOTHER, I am PREGNANT, I am the most important person in the world, and my pregnancy is the one and only" approach. Thanks for that! It was a roller coaster of feelings: ecstasy, doubts, angst about the future. I think that this made the book so real for me, and I think that in reality all the moms - to - be feel like that.
What disturbed me in the whole reading is the part after the baby was born. I'd like to have such a nice and already well - bred baby. Baby that is sleeping soundless, that cries only when it's hungry and stinks only occasionally, ie. when you are going out. And not after every feeding. Kiki found her motherhood from the beginning a piece of cake, she didn't felt depressed, bad, and if - it was just for a moment, good feelings were back in a second.
OK, she felt bored, alone, feeling like her brain is shrinking but anyway, she did really super and I can only be jealous. It is not always like this, all done with flying colours.
This book made me cry and it made laugh out loud, actually it made me shaking with laughter, especially when Thom had his adventure with TENS machine and when Molly was expressing milk after she has broken her milk expresser. Actually, I am still laughing, just when I think about it.
The book is in a diary form and it couldn't be better, it allows to flow easily between the pregnancy months and not to bore us to death with some facts and there is not "too many information" for those who were not pregnant yet.
This book is not only about pregnancy, it doesn't tell a fairy tale story about motherhood like people want to see it, but also about problems increasing, such as maternity leave, fear about your financial security, and how one must deal with all of this and much, much more (situation with mother, friends), even when one is pregnant.
It was a super read, and even the part after the birth of the baby didn't spoil it for me.