Oh, Baby: True Stories About Conception, Adoption, Surrogacy, Pregnancy, Labor, and Love
By Lisa Belkin
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Lisa Belkin
Lisa Belkin is the Senior National Correspondent for Yahoo News, covering American social issues. She joined Yahoo in 2014, after nearly two years as the Senior Correspondent at the Huffington Post, where she reported and opined about life, work and family. Prior to joining HuffPost, she spent nearly thirty years at The New York Times, where she was variously a national correspondent, a medical reporter, a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine and the creator of the Life's Work column and the Motherlode blog. She is the author of Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom, First, Do No Harm and Show Me A Hero which aired as an HBO miniseries starring Oscar Isaac. She is also the editor of two anthologies. A graduate of Princeton University, she has returned there as a visiting professor in the Humanities Council, teaching narrative non- fiction as an instrument of social change.
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Reviews for Oh, Baby
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A wonderful composition of stories! I could imagine the experiences....brought me to tears in one moment and laughing the next. Beautifully written. Thanks for sharing these stories with us!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was a delightful book. Most of the essays were quite well-written, interesting, fast-paced. Definitely a book to read if you're in any of the life stages mentioned on the cover. I found myself quite curious about who each of the authors was, not discovering the little bios until the end of the book. I would have liked them placed after each essay, along with, if possible, a short epilogue describing what happened next!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A really nice read if it is something you enjoy reading about. Many different stories and experiences. I found it was well worth the read.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Starting a family is a personal decision and while there are many commonalities each story is individualized and this book captures many of them. The stories are quick to read and cover a wide gamut of experiences-- home births, fertility, adoption, etc.Overall a nice book to read if you want to read about different experiences.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very interesting stories. I would recommend this for anyone going through the processes described on the cover. My daughter is expecting her first child and she found it very informative. Thanks for the opportunity to review.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a pretty easy read. Some of the stories get extremely technical in topics like fertility treatment and the history of childbirth. If you like reading multiple birth stories I guess it's OK. It is interesting to read how some women/men come to the decision to have a family. This is a good one to take along with you, no big time investment and quick reading.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Stories of motherhood like you've never heard before. Each individual account has a familiar tone and pace, as if you are hearing a friend's tale again, but somewhere in the middle you realize this is not how you thought their story ended. Even the most seasoned readers will find themselves surprised, moved and in awe they find in this collection.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A collection of beautifully written stories of parenthood - mostly motherhood, though two fathers take part. The stories get to the emotion of what those first moments and years of parenting is like, whether one becomes a parent through a traditional pregnancy, surrogacy, or adoption. The stories are honest about the challenges and unexpected emotions as well as the joys and depths of love. A wonderful read for any new parent.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Essay compilations don't always interest me, because with each new chapter, you have to adjust to a completely new story. This particular compilation, however, was really enjoyable. I don't know if it's because I just went through the whole pregnancy/baby thing, but I found these stories at times making me laugh and also tear up with genuine emotion. There is a huge range of reading here, but none was overly sappy.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I received this book as an early review copy. This is an enjoyable book and I found myself quickly reading story after story. The range and diversity of stories makes for each one to be refreshing. I will be passing this book on to others!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a very enjoyable, interesting book about the many different ways families can be formed. :) In fact, it was such a page-turner that my mother in law came to visit and she also read the book in 2 days!I would recommend this book for anyone who enjoys hearing true stories about babies, childbirth, adoption, surrogacy, etc.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5oh, baby is a fine collection of essays written by a rich array of mothers & fathers as they explore the emotional, logistical and biological complications of the journey to parenthood. as the editor's note instructs us, in the overwhelming first months & years, "you need more than advice. you need stories, stories from people who have been there, who have survived it, who are forever changed, as you are."these stories describe the gleeful abandon of falling in love with a newborn, the black depths of post-partum depression, the harrowing stress a colicky baby creates; an unwanted pregnancy, unachieved pregnancy; pregnancy by surrogate, by adoption; even a stint in a third world jail. we hear from gay men, lesbian women, very young parents, families living on the edge. their voices are heart-cracking, hilarious, unique & universal.two very small quibbles: while the opening essay is splendidly written & thought-out, i worry that it might be too esoteric as an introduction to this plain-spoken anthology. & given the evident effort to represent such a glorious diversity amongst the authors, i wish to hear from an invisible, inaudible segment of moms--those with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.