Birth Pregnancy

Julie Halpern's Maternity Leave tells the profane, profound, and just plain funny story of a professional woman who thinks she's ready for a baby, but her maternity leave proves otherwise. Thirty-six-year-old Annie Schwartz-Jensen is a middle-school teacher on maternity leave - a time she imagined as uninterrupted, blissful bonding with her baby. Instead she is dealing with her body leaking from every possible orifice, a baby who won't sleep, a husband who still wants to have sex with her (is he nuts?), and single friends who are clueless.

Are you sure to be ready for your first-time pregnancy? Are you experiencing both happy and fearful moods? You’re not alone. Everyday only in the United States, there are almost 17.000 new pregnancies. The average person feels the weight deriving from parents and relatives, listening only to their experience. This makes pregnancy a truly daunting chore, not the exciting and liberating journey that it’s meant to be. In the beginning you bravely endured high stress levels always wondering how you could have approached it in a correct way?

Overcome by passion, Kate had no choice but to accept billionaire Anthony Howard’s proposal to bear him an heir. Now that their child has been born, she is struggling with his desire to keep her and their relationship out of the public eye. She wants more from him but she can never resist the advances of the man she loves. Will Anthony give her what she wants…or will she be forced to leave him? Warning: This short story contains explicit sexual content and is for adults only.

Pregnancy can be a scary yet exciting feeling at the same time. There are many questions and concerns that soon-to-be mothers address on a daily basis, but where do they get their answers from? There is no better way to prepare yourself for what lies ahead than listening. Individuals have been kind enough to share their knowledge and experience with us, so why not take advantage of that?