Motherhood


Motherhood
Nightbitch
Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother
Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
The Push
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know
The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
Little Fires Everywhere
The School for Good Mothers
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
The End of Miracles by Monica StarkmanWaiting for Daisy by Peggy OrensteinMoondance by Diane   ChandlerNot Pregnant by Karina SavarynaSilent Sorority by Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos
Infertility
69 books — 66 voters
The Milk of Female Kindness by Kasia JamesHow Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm by Mei-Ling HopgoodBattle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy  ChuaCall Me Okaasan by Suzanne KamataThe Blue Jay's Dance by Louise Erdrich
Multicultural Motherhood
35 books — 24 voters

The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneRoom by Emma DonoghueGrowth by Karen DeBonisThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Novels about Motherhood
390 books — 195 voters
The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. SiegelHow to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele FaberPlayful Parenting by Lawrence J. CohenTeaching Kids to Think by Darlene SweetlandUnconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
Best Parenting Books
231 books — 223 voters


Dorothy Parker
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker

Charles Bukowski
my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile?" and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw ...more
Charles Bukowski

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