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Women who have been there share their stories to help you decide: Do I Want to Be a Mom? Today, the question of motherhood is no longer just a matter of when but also if. And with the question of if comes a barrage of even more daunting questions: How will having a baby affect my career? My body? My health? And, my marriage? "Do I Want to Be a Mom?" shares the illuminating, candid voices of women from all walks of life who have grappled with these same difficult questions to help you come to a decision about motherhood that's right for you."Do I Want to Be a Mom? is for any woman who has ever wondered: Am I selfish if I don't want to have children? Can I afford children? What if my marriage breaks up? Can I take time off from work to have children? Can I have kids after forty if I change my mind? And, will I be sorry when I'm older if I don't have kids? From new moms to those who have never heard even the slightest chime from their biological clock, the reflective stories found in this book provide a framework to help you examine your motivations and make your own guilt-free decision. These stories convey the same concerns and fears you may have raised with yourself or your closest friends, as well as the uplifting reasons you may consider motherhood - the love, fun, and fulfillment that many women gain as mothers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #106803 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

From the Back Cover

Women who have been there share their stories to help you decide: Do I Want to Be a Mom?

Today, the question of motherhood is no longer just a matter of when but also if. And with the question of if comes a barrage of even more daunting questions: How will having a baby affect my career? My body? My health? My marriage? Do I Want to Be a Mom? shares the illuminating, candid voices of women from all walks of life who have grappled with these same difficult questions to help you come to a decision about motherhood that's right for you.

Do I Want to Be a Mom? is for any woman who has ever wondered:

• Am I selfish if I don't want to have children?
• Can I afford children?
• What if my marriage breaks up?
• Can I take time off from work to have children?
• Can I have kids after forty if I change my mind?
• Will I be sorry when I'm older if I don't have kids?

From new moms to those who have never heard even the slightest chime from their biological clock, the reflective stories found in this book provide a framework to help you examine your motivations and make your own guilt-free decision. These stories convey the same concerns and fears you may have raised with yourself or your closest friends, as well as the uplifting reasons you may consider motherhood--the love, fun, and fulfillment that many women gain as mothers.

About the Author

Diana L. Dell, M.D., FACOG, is board certified in obstetrics/gynecology and psychiatry and is a women's health expert at Duke University Medical Center. She is coauthor of The PMDD Phenomenon. A Durham, North Carolina, resident, she is past president of the American Medical Women's Association.

Suzan Erem is an award-winning author and journalist with fifteen years of experience writing for magazines and newspapers. She lives in State College, Pennsylvania, and has one child.

Customer Reviews

Interesting topics
This book's title is the question I've been asking myself for a couple of months now, and after reading it with a certain voracity, I am still unable to figure out the answer.
The positive thing about this book is that it raises all the most commom questions related to motherhood, even the ones that most of us ignore, or that have never crossed our minds.
However, I found that it just brushes over each topic, rather than going deeply into each one of them. To me, it lacks a certain depth.
Still a very interesting book that I would definitelly recommend, specially because it would be very unfair of me to expect a book to determine wether or not I really want to be a mother.