From Here to Maternity: One Mother of a Journey

This book is the antidote to the rather wholesome, oh-so-serious and often smug range of pregnancy literature currently on offer. It’s a story for women everywhere who have been, are or want to be pregnant. Mel Giedroyc, from Mel and Sue, has based the book on her own experiences of pregnancy and birth and the dramas which ensue, and it covers everything from the usual morning sickness, food cravings and getting a seat on the bus, to the not-so-usual talking in Latin to the foetus through a shower attachment and falling in love with the Epidural anaesthetist. It’s a witty and insightful narrative of events leading up to the birth of a first baby through the eyes of an excited, shambolic and slightly at sea, thirty-something who pens the trials and tribulations of her journey to motherhood.