{"product_id":"i-am-not-your-baby-mother","title":"I Am Not Your Baby Mother","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt's about time we made motherhood more diverse...\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen Candice fell pregnant and stepped into the motherhood playing field, she found her experience bore little resemblance to the glossy magazine photos of women in horizontal stripe tops and the pinned discussions on mumsnet about what pushchair to buy. Leafing through the piles of prenatal paraphernalia, she found herself wondering:\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\"Where are all the black mothers?\".\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCandice started blogging about motherhood in 2016 after making the simple but powerful observation that the way motherhood is portrayed in the British media is wholly unrepresentative of our society at large.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe result is this thought-provoking, urgent and inspirational guide to life as a black mother. It explores the various stages in between pregnancy and waving your child off at the gates of primary school, while facing hurdles such as white privilege, racial micro-aggression and unconscious bias at every point. Candice does so with her trademark sense of humour and refreshing straight-talking, and the result is a call-to-arms that will allow mums like her to take control, scrapping the parenting rulebook to mother their own way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Candice Brathwaite","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41110166798498,"sku":"9781529406283","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-159.png?v=1692785559","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/i-am-not-your-baby-mother","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}