Momlandia: An Imperfect Guide to Organic Mothering

by Jennifer Strube; Samantha Lemos

Publisher:

Resource Publications

, 2021

Overview

When two college roommates reconnect after twenty years and find themselves both pregnant with baby girls, nothing could seem more blissful. That is, until they actually have the babies. Cue Momlandia: a strange universe that looks nothing like moms of Instagram. Braless, sleepless, and covered with milk, these friends fight for their pre-baby sanity the best way modern moms know how--one text message at a time. Together, they wade through the strange vortex of momlife, navigating GMO-sized body parts, tangled breast pumps, and sudden-onset husband hatred. Where is the glitter-filled Momtopia they were marketed? Strapping on their belly bands and pulling up their postpartum panties, these BFFs guzzle coffee and kale in search of organic motherhood. Hand-churning flax muffins while fighting their own muffintops, surely they can become the selfless, maternal saints they’d envisioned themselves to be. Or can they? To all those “natural” moms in search of perfection, we hail you, one momguilt, mombod, momfail at a time.

Praise for Momlandia

“This book should be required reading for all expectant mothers. It’s perfect for all moms but a must for first-timers. It’s the real deal of what to expect after your delivery, so there are fewer surprises from misguided expectations. I applaud Jen and Sam for unapologetically sharing everything. Their frank accounts brought on all the very real feels: joy and vulnerability, but also the comfort to know I wasn’t alone on this life-altering journey.”

—Alison Jordan, TV host



“As moms we desperately need this kind of comic relief and that comradery of knowing that we are all just winging it. One of the most challenging parts of the transition into motherhood is that illusive ideal we keep striving for. . . . This was cathartic and I couldn’t stop laughing throughout.”

—Nadia Ali, singer and songwriter



“Momlandia should be handed to all pregnant women to prepare them for the messy beauty that awaits them and to show them they’re not alone during that crazy first year of motherhood. As for me, I’ll be using its hilarious reality as birth control.”

—Whitney Popa, communications consultant, Popa & Associates, and mom of two toddlers

Product Details

• Title: Momlandia: An Imperfect Guide to Organic Mothering
• Authors: Jennifer Strube, Samantha Lemos
• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781725291263, 9781725291249, 9781725291256, 1725291266, 172529124X, 1725291258
• Resource ID: LLS:9781725291263
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T20:29:06Z

About the Authors

Jennifer Strube is an educator and licensed therapist. She enjoys foreign excursions, mountain climbing, glamping with her husband, and many other enterprises that get banished in Momlandia. To cope, she drank way too much coffee writing this confession (her fourth book). She works at a private school in California.



Samantha Lemos is a full-time wife, full-time mother, and works full time at Harvard Medical School. Whenever she is not chasing her toddler, she loves sailing, world travel, opera dates with her genius husband, and spending time in nature. She is from Seattle and now resides in Boston.



Lemos and Strube met while studying psychology at Wheaton College. Together, they schemed ways to lure studious boys and overturn the world. Twenty years later, their goals remain the same.