Becoming Us: 8 Steps to Grow a Family That Thrives

With the birth of a baby comes other new beginnings: the birth of a mother, of a father, and of a family. Becoming “us” is more than just a physical transformation; it’s a psychological, emotional and spiritual one, too. In older cultures and in villages around the globe, parenthood was supported as a rite of passage, yet guidelines for the transition have largely been lost in our Western world, until now.

Becoming Us is about in-betweens. It’s about what comes after ‘pregnancy and birth’ and before ‘parenting.’ It’s about the relationship we have with our newly unfolding parent-self and the one in between us and our lover as we grow from connected partners into connected parents. Becoming Us forms a bridge between expectation and reality, in between what we already know and how we hope our family to be.

Whether you’re welcoming your first baby or your fourth, this ground breaking book combines new research, age old wisdom and the stories of hundreds of mothers and fathers to support all families: traditional and non-traditional; straight or gay, with biological children or adopted, through the eight steps of the modern parenthood rite of passage. Becoming Us provides the nutrient-rich soil for all couples to prepare for and grow a family that thrives.