While reading my book, Trisomymommy related to my feelings of powerlessness in the NICU and the chart full of minuses. She also writes about the book’s title: ” Frankly, I’m not a huge fan of the ‘Welcome to Holland’ thing. It’s nice and all, but it all seems too tidy to me. Or maybe it’s just that I received so many copies of it when B was born that it quickly came to feel clichéd. Or maybe I just resisted the pressure to feel comforted by it because I’m ornery that way. Whatever. I love that Road Map to Holland is not so blithe. Although it is painfully raw at times, I think that as a new mom, I would have taken more comfort in it than in its namesake.”
While reading my book, Trisomymommy related to my feelings of powerlessness in the NICU and the chart full of minuses. She also writes about the book’s title: ” Frankly, I’m not a huge fan of the ‘Welcome to Holland’ thing. It’s nice and all, but it all seems too tidy to me. Or maybe it’s just that I received so many copies of it when B was born that it quickly came to feel clichéd. Or maybe I just resisted the pressure to feel comforted by it because I’m ornery that way. Whatever. I love that Road Map to Holland is not so blithe. Although it is painfully raw at times, I think that as a new mom, I would have taken more comfort in it than in its namesake.”