The Second Nine Months

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Forget about decorating the nursery for a minute. The truth is, no crib bedding, no matter how beautiful, will prepare you for baby's arrival. I want to walk out of Target and leave Blair there, wailing.... Nice people work at Target. Surely someone would take her home and care for her and buy her pretty things. This is the brutally honest beginning of Vicki Glembocki's memoir, "The Second Nine Months."

This book has so many good reviews on Amazon that we're definitely putting it on our "must read" list. We love memoirs that aren't "trying" to be something, but are just being honest. Honesty is what makes you laugh and cry when you read a good book, and this one seems to provide both.

Find it here.

Comments (4)

Haven't read this, but I highly recommend "Operating Instructions" on the honest new-mom memoir tip.

What an awful thing to say. My mom once told me she wouldn't mind if I fell off the boat we were on, and that is fast becoming one of the only things I remember her saying to me. If I find myself in Target with my wailing one-year-old, I take it as a clue that I've ignored her nap time and need to quit being selfish. How you could look at a 9-month-old child and think anything but, "You're the best thing that ever happened to me" is beyond me.

Obviously cliodog you are not the parent of an inconsolable colicky baby whose sleep pattern was erratic at best. Those hard earned 20 minute periods of quiet were not long enough for one to sleep, eat, or shower, never mind regain ones sanity. My daughter is now 27 years old an we are best friends but at the time my husband and I took to telling each other very crass jokes just keep from crying all the time with her.

Attitudes like cliodog's are part of the reason so many children are abused - that constant harshness when one parent DARES to admit that their children don't always fill them with joy. This shouldn't be a taboo thing to say - it's the truth!