Attack of the Fifty-Foot Hormones – Emma Tom

Attack of the Fifty-Foot Hormones by award-winning Australian journalist, author and broadcaster Emma Tom is a survival guide to staying sane during pregnancy

For many women the emotional aspects of pregnancy are far more taxing than the physical ones. There’s no shortage of studies into the health of the foetus and the physical state of its incubator. But how women FEEL during pregnancy is largely ignored. It’s just pregnancy right? They’ll cope. Unfortunately not everyone does.

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This wise and very funny book is the result of hundreds of interviews with sympathetic professionals and pregnant chicks generous enough to reveal how they stayed sunny-side up despite spending nine months in tracky daks the size of North Korea. It is the essential survival guide to staying sane during pregnancy – a time when complete strangers think it’s OK to grope your groin when it’s tempting to eat not just for two but for three or four and when even the most ginormous underpants fit better back-to-front.

There are also plenty of practical tips for how to cope if:

• You don’t glow so much as sweat a lot, and become freakishly hairy and veiny;
• Your pregnant bum is the size of a campervan’s and your cankles rival those of Babar the elephant’s;
• You’re so overwhelmed by everything you’re supposed to do and not do that you’ve spent the past week lying in the foetal position eating nothing but folic acid-less Bounty Bars;
• You think every twinge or kick is a sign of miscarriage or triffid-strength mutation;
• You’re so vague you just microwaved your mobile phone and forgot the removing-your-undies stage of going to the loo;
• You’ll commit murder if one more pregnancy book or web site assumes your partner is a spouse, a he or actually exists;
• Your idea of pregnancy exercise is shuddering violently at the thought of one day introducing a baby’s head to your precious vagina; and
• Everyone keeps cackling witchily while saying you’ll never sleep, shag or have a life ever again.Attack of the Fifty-Foot Hormones

also includes Emma Tom’s hilarious pregnancy diary which reveals what happened after the former motorbike-riding rock chick was unexpectedly diagnosed with an SLF (which turned out to be ridiculous medical jargon for a Single Live Foetus).

Links and Further Reading

• Emma Tom’s Website

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