Have you ever spent all day looking after your baby or young child and ended up feeling that you have "done nothing all day"? Do you sometimes find it hard to feel pleased with what you are doing, and tell yourself you should achieve more with your time? Maybe it is because you cannot see how much you are doing already. In this unique and perceptive look at mothering, Naomi Stadlen draws on many years work with hundreds of other mothers of a wide variety of ages and backgrounds. She explores mothers experiences to reveal what they - and you - are doing when it may look, to everyone else, like nothing.

Author Biography

Naomi Stadlen has unique experience of listening to mothers. For over twelve years she has run a weekly discussion group, Mothers Talking, which meets at the Active Birth Centre in London. She is also a mother of three. A qualified psychotherapist, she has worked for many years as an existential counsellor, specialising in seeing parents of young children, and she has been a breastfeeding counsellor for more than twenty years.