Short description
This guide offers information, insights, questions, and tools necessary for each woman to make her own personally satisfying and successful decision about motherhood. It includes extracts from women who speak honestly about their own fears, regrets, joys, and surprises.
Long description
This is an informative, compassionate guide to the motherhood decision. ...give(s) a sense of what's ahead for new parents. - Baltimore Sun . Many women aren't sure how to best time motherhood in their lives. Others think they may want a child but aren't sure they really want to take on the responsibility. Still others want to be child-free, but they are afraid they will regret the decision later on when it's too late. Do I Want to Be a Mom offers expert information, insights, and tools necessary for each woman to make her own best choice. Dr. Diana Dell, an expert who is board certified in both obstetrics/gynecology and psychiatry, draws on her expertise to cover the emotional, physical, sexual, social, and financial aspects of this decision. Along with award-winning writer Suzan Erem, she also provides powerful anecdotes from women who speak openly of the fears, joys, regrets, and triumphs of motherhood or being child-free.