Andrea Buchanan is the author of Mother Shock and explains that this is the state which many new moms and dads find themselves in at the first stages of parenting when it is often very chaotic, confusing and comical. New parents discover there is a clash between what they expected and what life really throws at them. Life turns into a 24 hour blur where it is no longer night and day but a continual flow with no neat divisions. There is a state of stressfulness as a new mother has to adapt to the constant needs of the new baby while working out her new identity as a mother in the new dynamic of the family and taking on a new and huge responsibility.
Her book is a collection of delightfully funny short essays where Andrea Buchanan shares with us the knowledge and insights she learns as she goes through the stages of “mother shock”. Explaining the fear of the double stroller and the Confessions of a Bottle Feeder and moving on to the sections of I’m an idiot and Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Playgroup. She writes about the difficult but unbelievably rewarding process of being a mother.
Another pleasing note about Mother Shock is that some of the stories are only 3 or 4 pages, so for new moms who we know are always on the go, they have the opportunity to read a chapter or two in under half an hour!
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