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Raising a Rare Girl (Paperback)
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Raising a Rare Girl (Paperback)
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List price R461
Loot Price R384
Discovery Miles 3 840
You Save R77 (17%)
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"A remarkable book . . . I found myself thinking that all expectant
and new parents should read it." -Michelle Slater A New York Times
Book Review Editors' Choice In Raising a Rare Girl, Lanier explores
how to defy the tyranny of normal and embrace parenthood as a
spiritual practice that breaks us open in the best of ways. Like
many women of her generation, when Heather Lanier was expecting her
first child she did everything by the book in the hope that she
could create a SuperBaby, a supremely healthy human destined for a
high-achieving future. But her daughter Fiona challenged all of
Lanier's preconceptions. Born with an ultra-rare syndrome known as
Wolf-Hirschhorn, Fiona received a daunting prognosis: she would
experience significant developmental delays and might not reach her
second birthday. The diagnosis obliterated Lanier's perfectionist
tendencies, along with her most closely held beliefs about
certainty, vulnerability, God, and love. With tiny bits of
mozzarella cheese, a walker rolled to library story time, a talking
iPad app, and a whole lot of pop and reggae, mother and daughter
spend their days doing whatever it takes to give Fiona nourishment,
movement, and language. Loving Fiona opens Lanier up to new
understandings of what it means to be human, what it takes to be a
mother, and above all, the aching joy and wonder that come from
embracing the unique life of her rare girl.
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