Every first Sunday of May we celebrate the Mother’s Day and every year new women are added who make their debut in these not always well-known fights before meeting them. Motherhood has become very idealized and now, the new generations are beginning to speak without taboos or complexes about issues that affect us all.
Today we want to celebrate this day with 8 books where motherhood has a great role. Because giving away a book is giving away a new vision of a subject that, at times, can overwhelm us and it never hurts to share looks, emotions and advice.
#1. Sweet Home. Pablo Rivero
Yes, the actor Tell me It has become one of the benchmarks for the darkest and most disturbing thriller. AND Sweet Home It is his latest novel in which there is no lack of social criticism of the culture of success, false happiness and social pressure for motherhood.
It seems that every woman’s destiny has to be to become a mother, but there are some who don’t want to and others who can’t. Even so, they have to live with the pressure of their surroundings on a subject that can become an obsession. Julia, the protagonist is obsessed with getting pregnant and she will live day by day situations that will put her to the limit
#2. Conscious maternity. Ester Lopez Turrillo
During pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum, we experience changes that go beyond the purely physical. We change on the outside, but also on the inside… We have been taught that we must flee from uncomfortable emotions, but how can we avoid them in a process of transformation as intense as motherhood?
We have the answer to this and other questions in this book that makes a honest journey through the emotions that accompany pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and also possible duels. From her own maternal experience of hers supporting two girls and accompanying mothers in therapy, the author’s intention is for you to find relief, to understand your emotions a little more, not to silence them, not to judge yourself for feeling.
#3. imperfect parenting. Paola Roig
Today’s mothers have never been so informed, and that’s not necessarily a good thing. As knowledge and information about motherhood increases, the demand grows. Paola Roig it has become a benchmark for all those mothers who seek to free themselves from guilt, understanding that they already do everything as best as possible and that not reaching everything is normal.
The author focuses on them, and not only on the child: you have to understand, care for and respect each other in order to care. A book that tries to set aside dogmas and extremes to discover and enjoy motherhood without judging, emphasizing understanding, respect and compassion for oneself.
#4. yoga for pregnant women. Marko y Tomoya
During pregnancy, women undergo physical and emotional changes that play a very important role in preparing for motherhood. Mariko y Tomoyacreators of the main yoga channel in Japan, offer us six yoga programs with simple exercises to practice before and after childbirth and that will help you feel better.
In addition, they also give us the keys for a positive relationship with yourself, with your partner and with your environment during this time of change and so that you face the upbringing of your children with security and confidence.
#5. Madrebulary. Things about mothers that do not appear in the dictionary. Marta Villanueva and Paola Puigdemasa
Monomami, Onmimanquia are words that do not appear in the dictionary, but that many mothers have internalized. And it is that, the world of mothers is full of things that have no name. Not having words to explain what we feel isolates us and makes us believe that it only happens to us. But this is over.
motherbulary is an illustrated dictionary that will make you laugh and reflect. Its definitions are born to give recognition to the maternal experience in all its forms and shed light on a job as wonderful and important as parenting, which often goes unnoticed by the rest of society.
#6. The history of vertebrates. Mar García Puig
“On December 20, 2015 I became a mother and I went crazy. […] That same day, Spain voted in the first elections in which a new party participated […], and the hope of change hovered over the day. At dusk, when I was counting contractions in the labor room, the country was counting seats. And both accounts came together in a new life for me, because one of those seats was going to be mine. The same day my children were born, I became a representative of Congress”.
What should have been the happiest day in the life of the narrator of this novel becomes the beginning of a crazy story. Anxiety takes over her and the weight of the world falls on her shoulders twice: she must take care of her newborn twins and give a voice to those who have trusted her.
#7. Macy’s Swans. Leticia Hall
The new generations are committed to real motherhood and to stop idealizing a process of change that generates many disorders. Leticia Hall collects some of the taboo topics on these topics in this collection of stories. Hall talks about fertility and infertility; the desire to be a mother, but also the doubts about being one; of pregnancies and abortions; to be a mother and also to be a daughter.
#8. The light of my eyes. Being a mother in the Middle Ages. Mary Jesus Fountain
In this wonderful story about the figure of the mother in the Middle Ages, history, literature, religion and art are intermingled. To understand motherhood in the 21st century, Mary Jesus Fountain invites us to look to the past and takes us on a journey where we find, thanks to the abundance of impressive testimonies and documents, the roots of many of the conventions, beliefs, customs and practices that have come down to our days.
The desire to be a mother, the lack of it, breastfeeding, childbirth, postpartum or parenting are some of the topics covered in this essay, which allows us to better discern, from a distance, aspects that are still hotly debated today. Relying on the historical account, the author helps us blur the emotional and ideological filters that often blur reality.
2023-05-07 04:06:58
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