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Rockabye

Rockabye

From Wild to Child
ISBN-10: 1580052320
ISBN-13: 9781580052320
256 pages
Paperback
$15.95 US
Published: April 2008

About the Book

Rockabye is the lively memoir of a spontaneous young city-girl who becomes unexpectedly pregnant. That city-girl is Rebecca Woolf, who at 23, after the "holy shit, I'm pregnant" realization, decides to keep the baby, marry the boyfriend (in Vegas, no less), and figure out how to wed her rock n' roll lifestyle and impending motherhood.

With humor, honesty, and renegade insight, Rebecca makes the transition from life as an odd-job doing commitment-phobic, chain-smoking, irresponsible party-girl to life as a work-at-home mother with a different kind of social life. Throughout, Rebecca doesn't relinquish the token qualities of her free-spirited, pre-baby self; rebelling against both the "soccer mom," and "young mother" stereotypes, challenging herself to grow up without outgrowing her dreams, and most importantly embracing motherhood without a map.

Rockabye explores the coming together of mother and son and their mutual coming of age. How does Rebecca adapt to motherhood? By acting on instinct and maintaining a strong sense of self, breaking rules (sometimes her own) in the process and building her own adventures out of legos and alphabet blocks.
Rebecca Woolf
About Rebecca Woolf
Rebecca Woolf has worked as a freelance writer since age sixteen, contributing to publications such as MSN, Nerve.com, Babycenter, 19 Magazine UK, Huffington Post, and Grace Ormonde Wedding Style. Woolf authors the popular parenting blogs Girl's Gone Child and Babble.com's Straight From the Bottle. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son, Archer.

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