Feeling My Way

How do you integrate motherhood into the rest of your identity? "Feeling My Way" offers one woman's unflinchingly honest, heartfelt and funny answer to that question, beginning during her pregnancy and continuing through the first year of her daughter's life. Brooklyn-based writer and performer Amanda Hirsch was 34 years old when she and her husband decided they wanted to have a child. The decision was prompted when her doctor told her, "'Maybe' never turns into 'no,' and it only gets...
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How do you integrate motherhood into the rest of your identity? "Feeling My Way" offers one woman's unflinchingly honest, heartfelt and funny answer to that question, beginning during her pregnancy and continuing through the first year of her daughter's life. Brooklyn-based writer and performer Amanda Hirsch was 34 years old when she and her husband decided they wanted to have a child. The decision was prompted when her doctor told her, "'Maybe' never turns into 'no,' and it only gets harder as you get older." Bam. Hirsch found out she was pregnant in the middle of Hurricane Irene, and she chronicles the stormy emotions of pregnancy, from elation, to shock, to sheer terror at the prospect of what having a child will do to her life. Like all women, Hirsch wears many hats -- in her case, the hats include artist, business owner and wife; how will she wear the motherhood hat without sacrificing other parts of her identity that are so important to her? Once her daughter is born, she is overcome with love, and documents the disorienting rush of new motherhood, while showing us how she slowly re-inhabits the other parts of her life. Motherhood does change her, but it doesn't limit her.