{"id":6242,"date":"2014-06-18T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=6242"},"modified":"2014-06-15T19:55:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T01:55:22","slug":"book-11-of-52-exploiting-my-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/book-11-of-52-exploiting-my-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 11 (of 52) – Exploiting My Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Exploiting<\/a>

Exploiting My Baby – Teresa Strasser<\/p><\/div>\n

After having gone the past 5 years without reading any of the books written by the cast of the Adam Carolla podcast, I’ve now gone through 3 in a row, the most recent being former sidekick Teresa Strasser’s pregnancy memoir Exploiting My Baby<\/em>. \u00a0Like the others, I had no intention of reading this book, which was released 3 years ago, until Strasser tweeted that Amazon had the book on sale for the low, low price of $1.67. \u00a0At that price point, I will probably buy just about anything, so I figured why not give this whole pregnancy thing a whirl.<\/p>\n

At the advanced age of 39, Strasser and her husband decided to try and have a baby and, surprisingly (to them), they conceived within two months, setting off an adventure of worry, worry, and, just for good measure, a little worry. \u00a0Despite convincing herself that she would miscarry, be a horrible mother, and was undeserving of a baby, she successfully navigated her way through pregnancy, eventually giving birth to a son. \u00a0The book covers the many problems she faced, many of which were simply imagined, and how she faced her fears despite herself.<\/p>\n

This should be the end of my Carolla-related reading for the time being, unless I stumble across a good deal for Adam’s first two books or Teresa’s replacement, Alison Rosen, decides to put out something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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