Baby Change: Navigating the Mess!
Description
I thought having a baby would complete me. I was wrong.
I believed I'd be a great parent and a natural 'mum'. I wasn't.
I thought I'd know what to do. I didn't.
What happens when two become three? When sleep is a myth? When friends used to see you - but now see your baby? Is your identity lost in motherhood? Does your brain still work? 'In those early years I could barely follow an episode of Peppa Pig,' says Anne, 'let alone pick up a Bible.'
This book helps you make wise decisions over your children. It addresses the challenges of parenthood - for instance, should you return to work? Anne uses examples from her own struggle, together with biblical insights and other people's experiences, to help you know you are not alone.
A droll and insightful companion for all who wrestle with parenthood.
Anne Calver is a Baptist minister.
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The Revd Anne Calver is a Baptist minister, speaker and author of four books. She and her husband Gavin have two children, and live in Stanmore, Middlesex.
Content
- Intro
- Baby Change
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Coming home
- Gavin's story
- Biblical bit
- Help me, Jesus!
- 2 New arrival
- Joel and Becky Botham's story
- Bec
- Joel
- Biblical bit
- 3 Who am I now?
- Rachel Gardner's story
- Biblical bit
- 4 Another rite of passage?
- Anna's story
- Biblical bit
- 5 Selfish to selfless
- Amy Woodfield's story
- Back to Anne
- Biblical bit
- 6 Navigating work with little ones
- Hannah Bettany's story
- Biblical bit
- 7 My new 'friend' guilt
- Dot Tyler's story
- Rachael Heffer's story
- Biblical bit
- 8 Where has my freedom gone?
- Emily Neal's story
- Biblical bit
- 9 Cultural challenges
- Chine McDonald's story
- Biblical bit
- 10 Technology changes
- Becca Mason's story
- Biblical bit
- 11 Technology changes
- Rach Heffer's story
- Biblical bit
- Final thoughts
- Mothering Sunday liturgy
- Afterword from Mum
