To Carry Wonder: A Memoir and Guide to Adventures in Pregnancy and Beyond

Looking to enhance your pregnancy and motherhood experience? You've found it, mama! Award-winning To Carry Wonder is a fun new type of pregnancy book, a two-in-one keepsake. It's a curated blend of story, art, and evidence-based insight--a nurturing companion and guide for mamas and mamas-to-be. Keeping mothers' unique and varied needs in mind, Parker draws from her own personal and clinical experiences with pregnancy, providing practical support via candid memoirs and conversational heart-to-hearts. In each chapter, she weaves art with science and humor with reflection--preparing her readers to cultivate wholeness through pregnancy and beyond.

Through four 'trimesters, ' weekly topics cover: mental health and body image, intimacy and relationships, common motherhood experiences and myths, perfectionism and mom guilt, health care rights and providers, relaxation and sleep, labor or Cesarean birth prep, connecting with and feeding your baby, support-person tips, returning to work or school, and so much more!

This book is a winner of the Independent Press Award, Independent Publisher Book Awards, and is a finalist of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

​​​​​​​This book is a freedom partner. A portion of the book profits will go to support the work of International Justice Mission, a global non-profit committed to combat slavery and violence against women and children.

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To Carry Wonder: A Memoir and Guide to Adventures in Pregnancy and Beyond

Looking to enhance your pregnancy and motherhood experience? You've found it, mama! Award-winning To Carry Wonder is a fun new type of pregnancy book, a two-in-one keepsake. It's a curated blend of story, art, and evidence-based insight--a nurturing companion and guide for mamas and mamas-to-be. Keeping mothers' unique and varied needs in mind, Parker draws from her own personal and clinical experiences with pregnancy, providing practical support via candid memoirs and conversational heart-to-hearts. In each chapter, she weaves art with science and humor with reflection--preparing her readers to cultivate wholeness through pregnancy and beyond.

Through four 'trimesters, ' weekly topics cover: mental health and body image, intimacy and relationships, common motherhood experiences and myths, perfectionism and mom guilt, health care rights and providers, relaxation and sleep, labor or Cesarean birth prep, connecting with and feeding your baby, support-person tips, returning to work or school, and so much more!

This book is a winner of the Independent Press Award, Independent Publisher Book Awards, and is a finalist of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

​​​​​​​This book is a freedom partner. A portion of the book profits will go to support the work of International Justice Mission, a global non-profit committed to combat slavery and violence against women and children.

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To Carry Wonder: A Memoir and Guide to Adventures in Pregnancy and Beyond

To Carry Wonder: A Memoir and Guide to Adventures in Pregnancy and Beyond

by Emese C Parker
To Carry Wonder: A Memoir and Guide to Adventures in Pregnancy and Beyond

To Carry Wonder: A Memoir and Guide to Adventures in Pregnancy and Beyond

by Emese C Parker

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Looking to enhance your pregnancy and motherhood experience? You've found it, mama! Award-winning To Carry Wonder is a fun new type of pregnancy book, a two-in-one keepsake. It's a curated blend of story, art, and evidence-based insight--a nurturing companion and guide for mamas and mamas-to-be. Keeping mothers' unique and varied needs in mind, Parker draws from her own personal and clinical experiences with pregnancy, providing practical support via candid memoirs and conversational heart-to-hearts. In each chapter, she weaves art with science and humor with reflection--preparing her readers to cultivate wholeness through pregnancy and beyond.

Through four 'trimesters, ' weekly topics cover: mental health and body image, intimacy and relationships, common motherhood experiences and myths, perfectionism and mom guilt, health care rights and providers, relaxation and sleep, labor or Cesarean birth prep, connecting with and feeding your baby, support-person tips, returning to work or school, and so much more!

This book is a winner of the Independent Press Award, Independent Publisher Book Awards, and is a finalist of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

​​​​​​​This book is a freedom partner. A portion of the book profits will go to support the work of International Justice Mission, a global non-profit committed to combat slavery and violence against women and children.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798986440101
Publisher: Larkwell Press
Publication date: 03/31/2023
Pages: 652
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.31(d)

About the Author

Emese Parker is a registered nurse, board-certified women's health nurse practitioner (NP), and certified perinatal mental health specialist. After completing bachelor of science degrees in exercise science and nursing, Parker earned her master of science in nursing from Boston College, and master of public health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Parker has over twenty years of experience in healthcare, specializing in women's health since 2008. She has partnered with women of all ages in various Ob-Gyn settings, advocating for them as they navigate their distinct journeys through life. Her devotion to improving care for the underserved has fueled her involvement in public health leadership positions with organizations like the University of California San Francisco and the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration's Health Disparities Collaborative. tocarrywonder.co
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