Post Partum Papers

About the Book

Post Partum Papers is one woman’s personal account of life after the birth of her third and last child, covering the period from March 1972 to November 1973. It is a period of transition when she comes to terms with the fact that she will have no more children. She feels that her role is to create a happy home life for her family, to create a context in which each one can grow and develop his or her potential as fully as possible. As the emotional center of her family, how does she negotiate a balance between living as a wife and mother and living as an individual?

About the Author

Katherine Murphy Dickson was born and raised in Boston, where she graduated from Simmons College. Her first diary at age fifteen began her lifelong fascination with journals. Throughout graduate school, a career in professional librarianship, marriage, birthing, and raising three children, the journal has been the intact line of her life. She lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with her husband, William.