Navel-Gazing: The Days and Nights of a Mother in the Making

Jennifer Matesa didn't expect to get pregnant when she did. And when she found out she was, she didn't expect to write a book about it. Rather, she turned to her journal as she had many other times in her life. A photographer friend of hers saw this as potentially the joint project they'd both been looking for, & she began shooting pictures of Matesa once a week throughout her pregnancy. The result is a true & natural portrait of a pregnancy, its trials & joys, its truth & its beauty. A warmly inviting, small-format book with more than twenty black-and-white photographs, Navel-Gazing makes a wonderful shower gift, or an empowering alternative to the what-to-expect books on the pregnancy shelf. This is more than a book about being pregnant; it is a sensuous & perceptive expression of the essence of the pregnancy experience.Matesa, Jennifer is the author of 'Navel-Gazing: The Days and Nights of a Mother in the Making' with ISBN 9780609807873 and ISBN 0609807870.