Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood (Paperback)

~ Melinda L. Roberts (Author)

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Take a woman fresh out of college, plop her down in the Silicon Valley, saddle her with a mortgage, let her ride the tech boom, give her three babies in four years, slap her with the tech bust, watch vicariously as her marriage disintegrates, end her career, and hand her a computer. What do you get? Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood is a naked, brutally funny, endearingly honest chronicle of family life beset by disaster on many fronts. Mindy keeps her family together through catastrophic illness, four bouts of postpartum depression, financial peril, familial Waterloo, and job instability. All through it her sense of humor and her sharp, edgy, witty writing keeps her together and upright. No, really. Mindy Roberts spent twelve years as a mild-mannered nonprofit employee. After the birth of her third child in four years, Mindy began to write about her life and children in the sleepless hours in an effort to capture her young family's world in real time.

Product Details

• Paperback: 508 pages
• Publisher: Aventine Press (October 23, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593304358
• ISBN-13: 978-1593304355
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,235,832 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Confessions of a Mother, April 7, 2009

By	Hadiyo Jim'ale (USA) - See all my reviews

Melinda Roberts may be young but she has got one hell of an experience. Although she goes through absolutely insane early years of motherhood including that horrible disorder a lot of us mothers suffer, Melinda (who calls herself "Mindy") takes life in strides. She is a wonderful mother who struggles to keep her life in order for the sake of her children.

And when she writes late at night (as is the time most of us mothers find any time for ourselves), she taps into a great source of energy because she writes like a woman who has no worry in life! Her wit and positive outlook on life kept me glued to the pages of her book to the end.

Don't get the wrong idea, Mindy is brutally honest about her life. She is honest about her career ambitions. She is honest about the ways her marriage was destroyed by the family economy. She is honest about her struggles with her feelings about herself as a mother. It is not a "Oh, poor me!" kind of a book. No, not at all.

I think what makes this book so important above everything else is that it validates our own experiences as mothers. It is very easy to relate to Mindy's life, even if we have experienced life on different circumstances. Her genius is the generosity in which she writes as a mother. I spent half of it going "AMEN!" because her life mirrors that of so many of us in ways you don't realize until you are reading these pages!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review submitted by Christine Louise Hohlbaum:, November 5, 2006

By	Melinda L. Roberts "Mindy Roberts" (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood by Melinda Roberts is a witty, heart-breaking, and real-life chronicle of a young divorced mother of three in Silicon Valley. Her fast-crack wit will give you a benevolent case of whiplash as she moves through her days of chaos, calamity, and cuddling with her kids. Her irreverant and unapologetic take on motherhood is refreshing, making it stand out from other, perhaps more polished diatribes on contemporary parenting. The rough and tumble of raising boys is also evident, yet there is always an undercurrent of unshakeable love for the tykes who call Mindy "Mom". The reader accompanies the author's journey over several years: from daughter Daisy's first steps to her trying to save her brother from 'certain death' on the floor. High drama and deep belly laughs are guaranteed from this first-time author. I look forward to reading the sequel!

Christine Louise Hohlbaum, author of DIARY OF A MOTHER and SAHM I AM: TALES OF A STAY-AT-HOME MOM IN EUROPE, lives near Munich, Germany, with her husband and two children.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, Fun, Honest, January 29, 2008

By	Jamie L. Ervin "Mommy of 5" (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I LOVED this book. I have read it several times since Hubby purchased an autographed copy directly from Mindy for Christmas 2006. She is honest and funny... has been through all the things we have been and isn't afraid to share her fears, frustrations or spontaneous combustion! Hubby sits beside my bubble bath some nights and is frequently found looking at me oddly, wondering what the heck is so funny. Sometimes I share.