Borrowed Babies Apprenticing for Motherhood (Audible Audio Edition) Jill Christman Angela Starling Audible Studios Books
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Until the 1960s infants were plucked from orphanages and maternity wards and used as "practice babies" in college home economics department across the country. Award-winning writer Jill Christman was determined to find out what happened to them. Along the way, five months pregnant herself, with her hormones (and anxiety) raging, she also hoped to discover what it means to be a mother.
Jill Christman's memoir, Darkroom A Family Exposure, won the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction. Recent essays have appeared in Barrelhouse, Brevity, Fourth Genre, Iron Horse Literary Review, and other journals, magazines, and anthologies. She teaches creative nonfiction writing in Ashland University's low-residency MFA program and at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where she lives with her husband, writer Mark Neely, and their two children.
This is a short audiobook published by Shebooks - high-quality fiction, memoir, and journalism for women, by women.
Borrowed Babies Apprenticing for Motherhood (Audible Audio Edition) Jill Christman Angela Starling Audible Studios Books
Who knew?! Universities actually "borrowed" foster babies, who lived with home economics students as real, live baby dolls so the young women could learn to mother? A preposterous, yet ingenious idea that would never fly in today's hand-wringing, litigious culture.A fascinating snapshot of this program in action is interwoven with the author's personal narrative of a three-week, grant-funded research trip she'd have rather had a root canal than taken. But take it she did, despite the fact that she was robustly pregnant, physically, and feeling quite vulnerable and puny, emotionally.
Christman's tale of how the research informed her feelings about the baby growing inside - and vice versa - is a quick and charismatic read that you won't soon forget. Well worth the 2.99. Download it now. Seriously.
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Borrowed Babies Apprenticing for Motherhood (Audible Audio Edition) Jill Christman Angela Starling Audible Studios Books Reviews
just delightful a wonderful weave of science and personal history.
I normally love Shebooks, but felt that this book really missed the mark. I loved the hybrid memoir/reported piece concept, but this read was incredibly light on research, focusing on only two "borrowed babies" subjects and interviewing only one person. I had no idea how long the writer spent "researching"—she said three weeks, but seems what was included could have easily been found in a single afternoon.
And the memoir part. How insufferable! The writer was so self-involved in a cloying, pathetic way, going on for a page about how anxious she was to rent a car for herself for the first time. Lady, you're 33. Grow up! I think that those moments can work if a writer has the self awareness to realize she's being ridiculous, but this writer simply did not. And while the writer tries to tie her pregnancy in with her subject matter, the connection was tenuous at best. She seemed like such a middle-class whiner. Another example When she realized that the table in the sublet she rented had a graphic of a large penis on it and she seemed awestruck by the fact she, a straight woman, was "living in a gay man's world." No, you're subletting his apartment. These types of observations just didn't work and made me not trust the writer as a journalist—she seemed far too naive and small town which again, could work in a memoir, but undermined her position of authority as a researcher covering a topic that had, quite frankly, fascinated me by the title.
I appreciated Christman's feelings on having her first baby - brought back memories. I worry for the borrowed babies now in addition to my own!
BORROWED BABIES leaves you with more questions than you had before you started it, and that seems to be its purpose, and also its beauty. Christman's gorgeous prose reveals slippages in time and memory, and she reminds us that every journey we take-- whether to Ithaca to conduct research. or to the grocery store to buy food for dinner-- is a personal one, and these disjointed stories and our thoughts about them are what add up to a life well-lived.
A part of our history I knew nothing about. What a fascinating story. I tell people about it, and they are shocked !
Why didn't we know this?
Beautifully told. I can empathize with the author's journey.
Who knew?! Universities actually "borrowed" foster babies, who lived with home economics students as real, live baby dolls so the young women could learn to mother? A preposterous, yet ingenious idea that would never fly in today's hand-wringing, litigious culture.
A fascinating snapshot of this program in action is interwoven with the author's personal narrative of a three-week, grant-funded research trip she'd have rather had a root canal than taken. But take it she did, despite the fact that she was robustly pregnant, physically, and feeling quite vulnerable and puny, emotionally.
Christman's tale of how the research informed her feelings about the baby growing inside - and vice versa - is a quick and charismatic read that you won't soon forget. Well worth the 2.99. Download it now. Seriously.
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