Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers Spotlights New Life, New Families, and New Attitude in Spring 2001 Issue

HARRISONBURG, Virginia - March 2001 - Teacher and writer Susan Murphy waited nine years for the baby she and her husband adopted. But when the babys birth mother placed the newborn boy in her arms, she didnt immediately fall head over heels in love with motherhood. Only later, in a Denver hotel room after midnight, did Murphy feel her new family start to come together. In her intimate personal essay, "Adopting Connor," featured in the Spring 2001 issue of Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers, she writes of her transformation from mere infant-minder to true mother. "And then I feel his soul speak to me, not audibly but as clearly as if it came through a megaphone," Murphy writes. "This is what he says: It's okay. I am yours. You can relax now."

In the spirit of spring, Brain, Child spotlights essays about new families, new life, and new attitude. Cynthia Eller, in a hilarious essay on her birthing experience, explores how the day of her childs birth was still the worst day of her life. Valerie Paris writes about learning to mother an abled child with the help of an old Eydie Gorme recording shed loved before she lost her hearing. And Susan Moorhead, in her essay about life after the stillbirth of her twin daughters, reflects on surviving her tragedy.

Brain, Child, the only literary magazine dedicated to motherhood, celebrates its first anniversary of publication with this issue. Contributors over the year have included Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley, best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver, and acclaimed writers Alice Hoffman and Susan Cheever. Brain, Child was recently nominated one of the nations Best New Magazines in the Utne Readers 12th Annual Alternative Press Awards, a category whose past winners include Doubletake and McSweeneys.

Brain, Child is published quarterly. It is available at Barnes & Noble, Superstands, WholeFoods Markets and independent bookstores around the country as well as by subscription. Ordering information and selected essays are available on the web at www.brainchildmag.com.

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