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 When I received the ARC of this book and saw the authors, I couldn’t wait to get started. I’m the mother of a beautiful, smart 7-year-old girl and her birth story was not full of rainbows and roses.  I’ve always said that if I had known more about potential complications during childbirth, maybe I would have prepared for that day differently.  I would have asked more questions.  I would have known more about what the day had in store for me. 
 
This collection of essays/stories covered the full spectrum of outcomes – stillbirth, NICU stays, emergency c-sections, long laboring, and easy births.  It was refreshing to hear so many ways that women began motherhood, and they all ended the same way – amazed with the little baby in their arms.  I have often found groups of women friends telling their birth stories and reading these stories felt very familiar, like a room of women talking to one another and telling their stories. 
 
My only negative thought while reading was that I would have to stop to google someone to put a face with a name.  I would have loved more photos of the women who shared these intimate moments with us.  Not having that face made it less intimate.  (I completely understand not wanting to share photos of the kids.) 
 
I will recommend this book to all my friends who become pregnant in the future, and all of my friends who enjoy hearing about the paths to motherhood. 
 
Thank you, NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group for the ARC of Arrival Stories by Amy Schumer and Christy Turlington Burns. 

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