Bring It On, Baby: How to Have a Dudelike Pregnancy

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Random House, 2010 - Biography & Autobiography - 216 pages
A refreshingly frank and funny take on motherhood that is "not" designed to make you feel guilty"" "I have 10 worries, and the first nine are all variations on the theme of labor and "Is there really a baby in there, or just some lizards?"
"Over the course of the last three years and her first two pregnancies, Zoe Williams has shared her refreshingly forthright insights into impending and new motherhood in her regular "Guardian" "Anti-natal" column. Whether bemoaning the fact that simply being pregnant seemed to give overbearing people the urge to comment on everything she ate, drank, or wore ("I'm drinking coffee and suddenly that makes me an evil mom-to-be. What is wrong with these people?") or inventing elaborate lies to explain why she was late to take her first born for his injections ("Perhaps I moved to Italy, but the economic downturn destroyed my prospects and I had to move back.")""her commentary is honest, feisty, and--in some cases--downright hilarious. This book will include new material as well as extracts from the columns, building into an idiosyncratic, individual take on becoming a mom--a pregnancy companion with attitude.

About the author (2010)

Zoe Williams writes comment pieces, interviews and reviews. She is best known as a Guardian columnist, but her work has also appeared in the Spectator, NOW magazine, the New Statesman and the Evening Standard. She lives in London with her partner and two children.

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