Birthdaze

Attention all mothers and mothers-to-be! The truth is here! Real stories from real moms, about the real pregnancy and childbirth experience. In a collection of memoirs, collaborators Deborah A. Ein and Rochelle A. Salmon bring together the oral histories and cumulative wisdom that has been quietly passed from woman to woman, mother to daughter, generation to generation. Honest, exciting, frightening and humorous, these essays bring pregnancy and childbirth out of the dark, scientific, how-to textbooks and illuminate the journey into motherhood with warmth, intimacy and camaraderie. Men have their war stories and these are our stories from the trenches of womanhood.

Rochelle A. Salmon, of Hammonton, New Jersey, has spent the last 20 years in Human Resources and has also worked as a staff writer for a local, weekly newspaper. She is currently writing children?s books. During one of her early morning walks with collaborator, Deborah A. Ein, the idea of Birthdaze was born.Deborah A. Ein has been an editor of monthly magazines (New Jersey Outdoors, American Forests, Lapidary Journal, and most recently, Atlantic City Magazine) for 20-plus years and is currently writing and editing children?s books. She also resides in Hammonton, with her husband, daughter, and twin sons. Look for her story of the twins? births in Birthdaze II.