false 16332293 368999 86485 1594489432 9781594489433 96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171068582m/86485.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171068582s/86485.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86485.Baby_Love 3.10 288 Time magazine hails as one of the leaders of her generation, an insightful, moving, and entertaining memoir of pregnancy and the decision to conceive a child after years of uncertainty.

Like many women her age, Rebecca Walker was brought up to be skeptical of motherhood. A young woman's future was limitless, their mothers' generation told them. A child could rob one of independence, economic freedom, professional advancement, and just about everything else worth having. But all the empowerment and reproductive choice offered to this generation, Walker now realizes, may actually have led to a new kind of struggle.

For fifteen years Walker recognized a persistent yearning to have a baby but feared actually choosing to do it. As a result, she almost missed what she now knows to be the single most meaningful experience of her life. In Baby Love, Rebecca Walker tells the story of her pregnancy: not just the physical evolution, but also the emotional and intellectual transformation from ambivalence to certainty to unconditional love. It's the story of the birth of her son, as well as the tale of a generation-a wise, thought-provoking, and above all engaging memoir by a writer who has proven herself to be an important voice of her era.]]> 49532 3.56 1301 249 2007 2 2 false Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 25 12:27:59 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 17:17:14 -0800 2008 Baby Love: choosing motherhood after a lifetime of ambivalence. The subtitle made me think that basically after a lifetime of NOT wanting children the author suddenly changed her mind and did have a child. But, basically...more...]]>