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Title: Sadly ironic title for Maushart's book.
Review: Apparently, Susan Maushart views the conception-pregnancy-birth road to motherhood the only path worth giving voice to as she does not acknowledge those who come to motherhood through other avenues such as adoption and step-parenthood. This book, though seemingly well-researched, reads more like a defensive tract of the author's own choices. I do think there is valuable information here but Maushart missed a wonderful opportunity. Isn't Maushart's omission yet another form of the cultural negation of the experience of motherhood? What a shame that such a learned person can be so short-sighted.
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