Tired of getting asked when she’s “finally” going to have a baby, author Carrie Friedman wrote PREGNANT PAUSE: My Journey Through Obnoxious Questions, Baby Lust, Meddling Relatives, and Pre-Partum Depression, her first foray into memoir.
If you’ve been asked “When are you going to have a baby?” so many times that you feel as though your uterus is starring in a new reality show, this hilarious, insightful book is for you.
Carrie Friedman shares her daily struggles with what she calls her “pre-partum depression” – from baby lust to panic and everything in between. Fending off the “dreaded question” from everyone, including her yoga instructor, and navigating the minefield of toddler birthday parties, as well as creating her own faux baby registry under an assumed name, Friedman captures the process of deciding when to have a baby with humor and smarts.
She lives and writes in Los Angeles with her husband and two puppies. Her website is: www.carriefriedmania.com
To purchase this book visit www.Amazon.com.
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Posted by: Theresa Jones on June 7, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Wow! I feel as though I live this every day of my life as the dreaded 40 looms in the not so distant future. Everyone from my parents, their friends, my relatives and even my elderly neighbors ask me the obligatory questions for any woman who is nearing that mark in life with out the major milestones that so many deem to be required for happiness in a woman’s life. “When are you going to get married?” “When are you going to have kids?” “Don’t you want to get married and start having babies?” NO NO NO! Leave me alone! Of course, I don’t really shout this, but seriously, why do I have to follow down the path of everyone else to have happiness in my life? Do I want to get married? YES…but to the right person and so far he has yet to deliver a pizza to my door on a Friday night. However, my mom spent the night with me and we did indeed have one of the hottest pizza delivery men in existence standing on my front porch Friday night! But all kidding aside, I am not going to rush into marriage or baby making just because I am reaching middle age. Do I panic every now and again that I will become the dreaded school marm? Of Course I do! But I will be one of the most fabulous old school marms playing shuffle board in my Prada loafers and Burberry trench!!
This book sounds outrageously funny in a way that can only mirror real life existence! Sorta like when Hollywood gets a romantic comedy so right that you cant help but almost die laughing at just how close to your life they get it! Any one see He’s Just Not That Into You? Yep, been down that road and done that too! I think this book is going to have to go on my must read list this summer! I can’t wait!
Posted by: lisa welch on June 7, 2009 at 8:18 pm
I also love it when people ask me how old my “daughter” is, which is my grand-daughter! Listen….I know I have a pooch, but come on!!