From Booklist
Stark follows up What No One Tells the Bride (2000) with an amusing look at the realities of motherhood. Drawing on her own experiences giving birth to her first child at the age of 33, as well as interviews with 100 women, therapists, marriage and sex researchers, child psychiatrists (and a few husbands), Stark offers survival tips to mothers. Her primary advice for them is to lower their personal expectations and resist the myth of the supermom. She takes aim at common myths--that the stomach will shrink right after the baby is born, that baby blues last only a few days, that fathers will share in the work--and advises women on how to deal with the stress and enormous work of becoming mothers. She focuses on the first five years of motherhood and the demands of balancing expectations of fathers and children and the woman's own need for personal time, advocating that women develop "mompools," or bands of supportive mothers. Good, sound advice. Vanessa Bush
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Book Description
For women who are convinced that "postpartum" is Latin for "the good times are over," What No One Tells the Mom is a lifeline to hope and happiness. Marg Stark-using her own hard-earned wisdom along with advice from real parents and a range of experts-offers coping strategies for the first five, most turbulent years of motherhood.

New moms will learn how to:

- Resist the Supermom myth
- Bring the zing! back to the bedroom
- Surprising ideas for taming tempers and raging hormones
- Bring some calm to household chaos
- Stay-at-home or back-to-work: how to make it work
- Tricks and tips for training Dad and not killing him in the process
- Stamp out stress and savor time with their new family

A sanity-saving book filled with wit and wisdom, What No One Tells the Mom is the next best thing to having girlfriends, sex experts, and communication gurus on speed dial through this challenging, but ultimately rewarding, time.

About the Author
Marg Stark is the author of What No One Tells the Bride. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Northwestern University, she has written for magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal and Parenting.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

For women who are convinced that "postpartum" is Latin for "the good times are over," What No One Tells the Mom is a lifeline to hope and happiness. Marg Stark-using her own hard-earned wisdom along with advice from real parents and a range of experts-offers coping strategies for the first five, most turbulent years of motherhood.

New moms will learn how to:

- Resist the Supermom myth
- Bring the zing! back to the bedroom
- Surprising ideas for taming tempers and raging hormones
- Bring some calm to household chaos
- Stay-at-home or back-to-work: how to make it work
- Tricks and tips for training Dad and not killing him in the process
- Stamp out stress and savor time with their new family

A sanity-saving book filled with wit and wisdom, What No One Tells the Mom is the next best thing to having girlfriends, sex experts, and communication gurus on speed dial through this challenging, but ultimately rewarding, time.