Becoming Us

Babies bring 'becomings': women becoming mothers, men becoming fathers, couples becoming a family. Becoming a family is not just a physical transformation; it's a psychological, emotional and spiritual one, too. In older cultures parenthood was honored as a rite of passage, yet guidelines for modern families have largely been lost, until now.

Becoming Us is about in-betweens. It's about the stages of growth that come after 'pregnancy' and before 'parenting.' It's about the relationship with your newly unfolding parent-self and the one between you and your lover as you grow from connected partners into connected parents. Becoming Us forms a bridge in between where you are now and how you hope your family to be.

Whether you're welcoming your first baby or your fourth, this ground-breaking book weaves new research with age-old wisdom and the stories of hundreds of mothers and fathers to support all families - traditional or non-traditional, straight or gay, with biological children or adopted - through the eight steps of the modern parenthood rite of passage. Becoming Us provides the nutrient-rich soil for you to prepare for and grow a happy, healthy and harmonious family that absolutely thrives.