Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern – författare

As you prepare to become a mother, you face an experience unlike any other in your life. Having a baby will redirect your preferences and pleasures and, most likely, will realign some of your values.As you undergo this unique psychological transformation, you will be guided by new hopes, fears, and priorities. In a most startling way, having a child will influence all of your closest relationships and redefine your role in your family's history. The charting of this remarkable, new realm is the subject of this compelling book.Renowned psychiatrist Daniel N. Stern has joined forces with pediatrician and child psychiatrist Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern and journalist Alison Freeland to paint a wonderfully evocative picture of the psychology of motherhood. At the heart of The Birth of a Mother is an arresting premise: Just as a baby develops physically in utero and after birth, so a mother is born psychologically in the many months that precede and follow the birth of her baby.The recognition of this inner transformation emerges from hundreds of interviews with new mothers and decades of clinical experience. Filled with revealing case studies and personal comments from women who have shared this experience, this book will serve as an invaluable sourcebook for new mothers, validating the often confusing emotions that accompany the development of this new identity. In addition to providing insight into the unique state of motherhood, the authors touch on related topics such as going back to work, fatherhood, adoption, and premature birth.During pregnancy, mothers-to-be talk about morning sickness and their changing bodies, and new mothers talk about their exhaustion, the benefits of nursing or bottle-feeding, and the dilemma of whether or when they should return to work. And yet, they can be strangely mute about the dramatic and often overwhelming changes going on in their inner lives. Finally, with The Birth of a Mother , these powerful feelings are eloquently put into words.

Lorsque votre bébé se met à hurler ou qu''il rejette son déjeuner, tous les regards se tournent vers vous. Parce que vous êtes sa mère et qu''on attend de vous que vous sachiez quoi faire. Vous, vous devez prendre des décisions en une fraction de seconde. Vous apprenez sur le tas, sans être toujours sûre d''exercer au mieux votre nouveau métier. Parce que vous êtes devenue mère et que tout s''est passé si vite. Destiné d''abord aux nouvelles mamans, La Naissance d''une mère a pour principal objectif de vous aider à vous préparer aux bouleversements qui vous attendent et qui vont fondamentalement vous transformer. Depuis les fantasmes qui accompagneront votre grossesse jusqu''aux premières interactions qui suivront la naissance de votre bébé, vous comprendrez, étape par étape, tous les changements psychologiques qui vont permettre cet événement majeur : devenir mère. Psychiatre de réputation internationale, Daniel N. Stern est le spécialiste incontesté des relations mère-enfant. Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern est pédopsychiatre et dirige le Centre Brazelton en Suisse.