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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Dedication; Epigraph; Baby Fever; Holding Patterns (1 to 41.5); A Birth Story; Sleepless Nights; A Certain Kind of Mammal; Slacker Parent; Maternal Instincts; Dry Spell; Extra Room (1 to 26); Acknowledgments; About the Author; Newsletters.;A raw, funny, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before feeling like a grown up. When Meaghan O'Connell got accidentally pregnant in her twenties and decided to keep the baby, she realized that the book she needed -- a brutally honest, agenda-free reckoning with the emotional and existential impact of motherhood -- didn't exist. So she decided to write it herself. And Now We Have Everything is O'Connell's exploration of the cataclysmic, impossible-to-prepare-for experience of becoming a mother. With her dark humor and hair-trigger B.S. detector, O'Connell addresses the pervasive imposter syndrome that comes with unplanned pregnancy, the fantasies of a "natural" birth experience that erode maternal self-esteem, post-partum body and sex issues, and the fascinating strangeness of stepping into a new, not-yet-comfortable identity. Channeling fears and anxieties that are still taboo and of

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Author

Meaghan O'Connell

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316518420

Category

nonfiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (721 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14