The MotherVerse Blog: mothering out loud

Okay. So I read a a lot. Anyone who reads my posts here on MotherVerse and on my own blog knows this.Da Capo has a new book out on pregnancy, called The Best Birth: Your Guide to the Safest, Healthiest, Most Satisfying Labor and Delivery by Sarah McMoyler and Armin Brott. It employs the McMoyler […]

I discovered The Compleat Mother magazine (yes I’m spelling that right) shortly after my daughter was born 4 years ago and it still continues to influence my life as a parent even today. The magazine of pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding; Compleat Mother focuses on natural parenting and is a consistently refreshing and interesting read. I […]

Four new books have just been released or are being released very shortly which were edited by, or include, current and previous MotherVerse writers. Support these fantastic mama writers and get a great summer read by picking up a copy of their books today!
“The Stay at Home Survival Guide” by Melissa Stanton. Melissa’s story […]

The Madness of Mary Todd Lincoln
Jason Emerson
Southern Illinois University Press, 2007
It was featured as a review in The Women’s Review of Books this month and caught my interest immediately. I haven’t read much on Mary Todd Lincoln, especially after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. *I just wanted to add, too, her own son declared her […]

Well I don’t make a habit of reviewing too many products here on the blog…but I had a chance recently to check out a really unique set of CDs for my four year old daughter and thought I should share them with you. The Indigo Dreams CD’s, Children’s Wellness Audio CDs by Lori Lite, are […]

A Mother’s Day suggestion from Gwendolen Gross.
“The Other Mother” by Gwendolen Gross is perfect for mother-daughter discussion — a chance for you to think about the choices we all make. Selection of four national book clubs, Booklist called The Other Mother “an electrifyingly complex and explosively gripping portrait of contemporary, have-it-all motherhood.”
“The book was amazing […]

Mamarama is a smart, real read on the subject of motherhood and identity-before and after the word MAMA becomes a staple in our personal lexicon.
McDonnell takes us through the ‘pre-baby’ years as a pop culture critic shuttling from Providence to New York City’s East Village to San Francisco, on into motherhood fluidly with humor that […]

Both Michele Corkery and Suzanne Kamata have been contributers to MotherVerse Magazine. Suzanne was also a recent guest blogger here on the MotherVerse blog. Her regular blog can be found at Gaijin Mama. Michele interviewed Suzanne specifically for MotherVerse readers and we thank her for that.
A Conversation with Suzanne Kamata, author of recently published novel […]

Fewer tantrums? Relaxation, sleep and patience?
Not to mention sanity , less stress and less anxiety for mom. These are some of the benefits Garabedian cites in the book. What mom wouldn’t want that?
Read the rest of the review here.

I had the great opportunity to read Vicki Glembocki’s book The Second Nine Months: One woman tells the real truth about becoming a mom. Finally. It’s funny and honest. It’s stark, it lives up to the description. I personally found it very hard to put it down: I finished it within a weekend. Any mother […]