The Motherhood Space: A Companion Through the Beautiful Chaos of Life as a Modern Mother

by Gabrielle Nancarrow

Overview

The Motherhood Space is your companion through motherhood, offering advice, imparting wisdom, and sharing intimate stories to help you feel seen through the intense highs and lows of this season of your life.

In this beautiful book, doula and mother of three Gabrielle Nancarrow shares her own motherhood journey alongside interviews, research, and personal reflections from mothers around the world, who graciously share deeply honest and tender stories about the times that made them laugh, cry and fall to their knees.
 
The Motherhood Space is a book that you will refer to time and time again as you pass through each phase in your parenting journey and look for guidance. Whether you are experiencing identity and relationship shifts, isolation, sleep deprivation, breastfeeding challenges or planning your return to work, the stories within this book will walk with you through each milestone and help you see that you are not alone. In a world where community and support is not all that easy to find, The Motherhood Space is a gentle companion for all mothers. 

The Motherhood Space is the perfect follow-up for readers of Gabrielle's first book, The Birth Space.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781743798546
Publisher:	Hardie Grant
Publication date:	11/14/2023
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

Gabrielle Nancarrow is a mother of three, a doula, author of The Birth Space, and the founder of Gather, a space for women. She is passionate about speaking our truths, sharing our stories and celebrating honest motherhood. This is her second book.

Editorial Reviews

11/06/2023

This touching coffee-table book by Nancarrow (The Birth Space), an Australian doula and mother of three, gathers reflections on the joys, sorrows, and sacrifices of motherhood. Nancarrow discusses feeling dismissed by obstetricians during her pregnancies, the loneliness she felt each time after giving birth, and how becoming a mother changed her relationship with her husband (“intimacy has become a knowing smile across our ransacked living room”). Stories from other mothers are by turns heartbreaking and uplifting; for instance, Kristy-Lea Brown describes how she coped after her baby died during labor, and journalist Melanie Dimmitt recounts how she learned to accept that her son, who was born with quadriplegic cerebral palsy, would likely never walk and that she should focus on helping him foster a fulfilling social life instead of pushing him through grueling and ineffective physical therapy. Elsewhere, Nancarrow touches on finding community with other mothers, the poignancy of watching children grow up, and the pain of postpartum depression, providing a multifaceted view of motherhood that’s elevated by her compassionate tone (“give yourself grace and continue to ask for help when you need it”) and tender photos of mothers with their children. Readers will be moved. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly