Borrowed Babies
Apprenticing for Motherhood| By: | Jill Christman |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Print ISBN: | 9781940838694 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781940838694 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2014 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Until the 1960s, infants were plucked from orphanages and maternity wards and used as “practice babies” in college home economics department across the country. Award-winning writer Jill Christman was determined to find out what happened to them. Along the way, five months pregnant herself, with her hormones (and anxiety) raging, she also hoped to discover what it means to be a mother.