Pregnancy Memoir

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    • A High-Risk Memoir
    • By: Aileen Weintraub
    • Narrated by: Aileen Weintraub
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A laugh-out-loud memoir about a free-spirited Brooklyn girl who, after a whirlwind romance, finds herself living in a rickety farmhouse, pregnant, and faced with five months of doctor—prescribed bed rest because of unusually large fibroids....

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    • On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
    • By: Lucy Jones
    • Narrated by: Lucy Jones
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • In this important and ground-breaking, deeply personal investigation, Jones writes of the emerging concept of “matrescence”—the wholeness of becoming a mother....

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    • By: Kevin Nealon
    • Narrated by: Kevin Nealon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Kevin Nealon tells the outrageous story of how he battled through aching joints, Milano cookie cravings, and a rapidly receding hairline to become a first-time dad at an age when most fathers are packing their kids off to college....

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    • A Story of Teen Motherhood, College, and Creating a Better Future for Young Families
    • By: Nicole Lynn Lewis
    • Narrated by: Nicky Sunshine
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Pregnant Girl presents the possibility of a different future for young mothers - one of success and stability - in the midst of the dismal statistics that dominate the national conversation....

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    • By: Rebecca Dekker
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Dekker
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 232 ratings
    • One in three births is traumatic. It doesn’t have to be that way. Rebecca planned to give birth at the hospital affiliated with her university. But hospital practices and policies that were more than 20 years out of date left her with complications that seemed preventable....

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    • A Daughter’s Search for Identity Through Loss and Love
    • By: Michelle Miller
    • Narrated by: Michelle Miller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • Though Michelle Miller was an award-winning broadcast journalist for CBS News, few people in her life knew the painful secret she carried: her mother had abandoned her at birth.

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    • An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us About Being Human
    • By: Sarah DiGregorio
    • Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Inspired by the author’s harrowing experience giving birth to her premature daughter, a compelling and empathetic work that combines memoir with rigorous reporting to tell the story of neonatology - and to meditate on the questions raised by premature birth....

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    • My Journey Through Postpartum Depression
    • By: Brooke Shields
    • Narrated by: Brooke Shields
    • Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 296 ratings
    • When Brooke Shields welcomed her newborn daughter, Rowan Francis Henchy, into the world, something unexpected followed: a crippling depression....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Meredith Hall
    • Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen....

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    • A Doctor's Notes on Pregnancy, Birth, and the Unexpected
    • By: Chavi Eve Karkowsky MD
    • Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • “My work offers a window into the darkest and lightest corners of people’s lives, into the extremes of human experience,” writes Dr. Chavi Eve Karkowsky in High Risk, her timely and unflinching account of working in maternal-fetal medicine - that branch of medicine that concerns high-risk pregnancies....

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    • By: Jenny Mollen
    • Narrated by: Jenny Mollen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 642 ratings
    • Live Fast Die Hot is a collection of stories about what happens when you realize that some things are more important than crafting the perfect tweet....

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    • A Memoir of My (In)Fertility
    • By: Michelle Tea
    • Narrated by: Michelle Tea
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Written in intimate, gleefully TMI prose, Knocking Myself Up is the irreverent account of Tea’s route to parenthood—with a group of ride-or-die friends, a generous drag queen, and a whole lot of can-do pluck....

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    • Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
    • By: Peggy Vincent
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • Each time she knelt to "catch" another wriggling baby - nearly 3,000 times during her remarkable career - California midwife Peggy Vincent paid homage to the moment when pain bows to joy and the world makes way for one more....

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    • A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
    • By: Catherine Cho
    • Narrated by: Catherine Cho
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Inferno is the riveting memoir of a young mother who is separated from her newborn son and husband when she's involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward in New Jersey after a harrowing bout of postpartum psychosis....

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    • The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon
    • By: Kelley French, Thomas French
    • Narrated by: Kelley French, Thomas French
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks' gestation. Babies like Juniper trigger the question: Which is the greater act of love - to save her or to let her go? Find out....

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    • What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
    • By: Dan Savage
    • Narrated by: Dan Savage
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 506 ratings
    • The syndicated sex-advice columnist of "Savage Love" tells a no-holds-barred story of an ordinary American couple who want to have a baby, except that in this case, the couple happens to be Savage and his boyfriend....

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    • By: Elizabeth Heineman
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Ghostbelly is Elizabeth Heineman’s personal account of a home birth that goes tragically wrong—ending in a stillbirth—and the harrowing process of grief and questioning that follows....

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    • A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph
    • By: Perdita Felicien
    • Narrated by: Perdita Felicien
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Decades before Perdita Felicien became a World Champion hurdler running the biggest race of her life at the 2004 Olympics, she carried more than a nation's hopes - she carried her mother Catherine's dreams....

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    • One Woman's Search For Connection Online
    • By: Harriet Gibsone
    • Narrated by: Harriet Gibsone
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-24
    • Language: English
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    • Until a diagnosis of early menopause in her late twenties, Harriet spent much of her young life feeding neuroses and insecurities with obsessive internet searching and indulging in whirlwind ‘parasocial relationships’ (translation: one-sided affairs with celebrities she has never met)...

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