Mum Face: The Memoir of a Woman who Gained a Baby and Lost Her Sh*t. Grace Timothy

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       COPYRIGHT

      HarperCollinsPublishers

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      First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

      FIRST EDITION

      © Grace Timothy 2018

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2018

      Cover photographs © Andrew Brown/Shutterstock.com

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      Grace Timothy asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780008271008

      Ebook Edition © February 2018 ISBN: 9780008271015

      Version: 2018-02-09

       DEDICATION

      This book is dedicated to my girl, of course. Kid, you made me as much as I made you, and the world is so much better with you in it. I love you. Thanks for your patience, your joyousness and your helpful notes. You’re already wise and funny beyond your years. I’m excited about you, bubs – go get it.

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       PROLOGUE

       PART I: THE THREAT

       1. THE FIRST TRIMESTER/SHOCK

       2. THE SECOND TRIMESTER/DENIAL

       PART II: THE STRUGGLE

       4. BIRTH

       5. 0–3 MONTHS

       6. 3–6 MONTHS

       7. 6–12 MONTHS

       PART III: THE CRISIS

       8. CRISIS TALKS

       9. RECOVERY

       10. THE WORST NEWS

       11. RELAPSE

       12. A NICE FOOT RUB

       13. I EVENTUALLY SELF-SOOTHE, I THINK

       THE AFTERBIRTH

       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

       PROLOGUE

      I attempt to sit still, to look as relaxed and open as possible, but I’m on one of those chairs that leans back on a bendy frame. You know the ones? That kind of plastic-looking blonde wood with a creamy-coloured leather cushion. I looked it up online after our session – it’s from IKEA (obviously) and it’s called ‘Poang’, which is Swedish for ‘point’. As in, what’s the point? I think people buy them as nursing chairs, too.

      Well, I would have lost a nipple if I’d tried to breastfeed in this chair, let me tell you. My stomach muscles were shot to hell once I’d given birth and I’d have been about as steady on a rocking chair as a drunken eel. Plus, my vagina was so mashed up, the idea of grinding it back and forth on a beech veneer would have broken me for good. I definitely

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