Full name: Half Baked: The Story of My Nerves, My Newborn, and How We Both Learned to Breathe

Author: Alexa Stevenson Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Parenting Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780762441594 9780762439461 0762441593 0762439467

Author Alexa Stevenson had spent most of her life preparing for the wrong disasters. When her daughter is born 15 weeks early, she is plunged into the strange half-light of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit, where she learns the Zen of medical uncertainty and makes the surprising discovery that a worst-case scenario may just be the best thing thatOCOs ever happened to her. The absurdities of the medical system, grappling with mortality, and coming into oneOCOs own are all explored in this wryly heartfelt memoir.From the indignities of infertility treatments to managing bedrest and parenting a preemie (how does one wrangle an oxygen tank while changing a diaper?), Alexa recounts her rocky road to motherhood with a uniquely sharp, funny, yet poignant voice." Similar books: Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott Walking in the Shade by Doris Lessing Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley Under a Wing by Reeve Lindbergh Traci Lords: Underneath It All by Traci Lords The Spark by Kristine Barnett Faith to Foster by T. J. Menn An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken Nobody's Son by Luis Alberto Urrea Maxed Out by Katrina Alcorn Messages From My Father by Calvin Trillin Everything You Ever Wanted by Jillian Lauren Looking Back by Lois Lowry No More Words by Reeve Lindbergh Now I See the Moon by Elaine Hall This Lovely Life by Vicki Forman Small Animals by Kim Brooks Waiting for Daisy by Peggy Orenstein Some Assembly Required by Anne Lamott