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    Into The Child: 40 Weeks in the Gestational Wildnerness
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    Into The Child: 40 Weeks in the Gestational Wildnerness

    By Shannon Bradley-Colleary

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    "Debut author Colleary chronicles 40 weeks of pregnancy in this irreverent account. Sometimes sweet, sometimes sassy, screenwriter and blogger Colleary tells all with witty sarcasm and edgy, laugh-out-loud humor. She begins with conception and the results of a home pregnancy test before careening through laments of sleepless nights, mood swings, weight gain and nausea with snappy but snide remarks most pregnant women think but few express. Colleary’s book is a fun, literary romp for any woman who has experienced 'The First Trimester Through Hell' and lived to read the tale. The former homecoming queen and INXS backup dancer, now the pregnant mommy of one, alternates between admitted snobbery ('I saw stay-at-home moms as the kind of women who sat in the fifth pew of fill-in-the-blank church, smiling with bland acquiescence, who thought Danielle Steele novels were literature') and a self-deprecating appraisal of her blossoming physique ('Some days even my earlobes feel fat'). Each chapter notes the gestation time in weeks and days, recounted in diary style, and draws readers into one delicious admission after another. Colleary professes a jealousy for the skinny, over-achieving Gwyneth Paltrow and a tendency toward fantasies involving George Clooney. She regales with funny tales of an overbearing lactation nurse screeching about the importance of Colostrum and a would-be caregiver whose secret life, the author fears, will eventually be revealed on a daytime talk show. Colleary’s humor and warmth flow seamlessly from conception to birth in this well-written, snappy read. A hysterical account of pregnancy that will resonate with readers who’ve been through it before." --- KIRKUS REVIEW

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShannon Bradley-Colleary
    Release dateJul 20, 2015
    ISBN9781311188540
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    Into The Child: 40 Weeks in the Gestational Wildnerness
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    Shannon Bradley-Colleary

    Shannon Bradley-Colleary is the author of three books; Into The Child: 40 Weeks in the Gestational Wilderness, which was named One Of The Top 100 Indie Books of 2012 by The Kirkus Review, Smash, Crash & Burn: Tales From the Edge of Celebrity published in 2014 detailing her sometimes absurd journey as an aspiring Hollywood actress in the 90s. And her newest installation; Married Sex: Fact and Fiction. Bradley-Colleary is the author of the popular blog The Woman Formerly Known As Beautiful and frequently contributes to The Huffington Post, BlogHer, Daily Mail Online, Purple Clover and is soon-to-be published in O Magazine. Bradley-Colleary's work has landed her on The Today Show, NPR, CNN, HuffPo Live and more.

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