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- Rebirth (PDF, 154 pages)
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For the first year of motherhood
When a baby is born, a mother is born too.
Watch Mira's story, then choose your copy of Rebirth below. A warm, honest book for the first year of motherhood, and the months before it.
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Start with the e-book, add the workbook to put it into practice, or hold the whole thing in your hands.
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Read a chapter, then pick up a pen.
- Rebirth (PDF, 154 pages)
- The Rebirth Workbook (printable PDF, 61 pages)
- A guided section for every chapter
- Mood, sleep and small-return trackers
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A real book for the nightstand.
- Rebirth paperback (154 pages, 5.5 × 8.5 in)
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Paperback + Paperback Workbook
The complete set, in print.
- Rebirth paperback (154 pages)
- The Rebirth Workbook paperback (61 pages, 7 × 10 in)
- Room to write in every section
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3:12 a.m.
Written for the night feeds
A book you can read with one hand.
Written for the hour when the house is asleep, the baby is finally feeding, and your mind will not stop.
You do not need to finish it. You can open it anywhere and find something true about what you are feeling right now.
You are not doing this wrong.
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Her story
At nineteen, she almost didn't become a mother. Five words changed everything.
"Okay. Then we'll figure it out." Her dad said it at a stoplight, and she has built her whole life on it.
Mira raised her daughter above a laundromat, with help from the women she calls her borrowed mothers: an aunt, a neighbor, her old track coach, and a therapist who changed everything.
Rebirth is everything they taught her, written for the woman she was on her hardest night.
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Inside the book
What's inside
Twelve chapters. Three parts.
Part one · LandingWhy missing your old self isn't ingratitude. Baby blues, anxiety, rage and sleep. The thoughts you're scared to say out loud. Healing your body.
Part two · Your peopleTwo tired people and the invisible list. Boundaries with everybody's opinion. How mom friends actually get made.
Part three · YouBeing seen again. Good enough on purpose. Work, money and changing paths. Coming back to what you love, ten minutes at a time.
Plus Mira's story, an epilogue, and a clear guide to when to get help.
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Mothers and mothers-to-be
Who it's for
This book is for you if
- You're in the first year after birth, or about to be.
- You love your baby and miss yourself, sometimes in the same minute.
- You've had feelings or thoughts you're scared to say out loud.
- Your relationship, your friendships or your work changed overnight.
- You became a mother in a way the pamphlets don't cover: young, alone, through adoption, or as a stepmom.
The Rebirth Workbook
Reading helps. Writing it down changes things.
Rebirth tells you what's happening to you. The workbook is where you work through it: 61 guided pages, one section for every chapter, so you can read at night and pick up a pen in the morning.
- The Weather Report. A three-minute check-in and a week of forecasts that show you the pattern before it runs your week.
- Your sleep plan. Hour by hour, who's on duty and who's sleeping, so one of you gets a real stretch.
- The Invisible List. Every job only you remember, written down, then handed over.
- Saying It Out Loud. The words to bring to your doctor or therapist when you can't find them yourself.
- A letter to the woman you were, and one to yourself a year from now.
- Thirty Days of the Small Return, plus one page with everyone you can call.
No right answers. Skip pages, go out of order, write badly. It's yours.
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Read how it begins
How I became a motherRebirth
The bench
Dad drove me in his work truck. We were forty minutes early, because my father is always forty minutes early, to everything, including his own heart surgery years later. I couldn’t stand the thought of the waiting room, so I told him I’d sit outside for a while. He parked across the street and stayed in the truck with the radio on low.
There was a bench on the sidewalk outside the building, next to a bus stop. I sat on my hands so they’d stop shaking.
That’s when the little girl came.
She was maybe two, in red rain boots on a day with no rain, running in that wobbly, full-speed way toddlers run, laughing, away from her mother. Her mother was half a block back, trying to fold a stroller with one hand and hold a diaper bag with the other. The girl wasn’t looking where she was going. She ran straight into my shins, bounced off, and sat down hard on the concrete.
· · ·
She scooped up her daughter and said thank you about five times. Then she looked at me, really looked, and said, “You’re going to be an amazing mom someday. You just are. I can tell.”
She had no idea where I was sitting or why. She was a tired woman being kind to a stranger. She buckled her daughter into the stroller, and they went around the corner, and I never learned her name.
I sat on that bench until my appointment time came and went.
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Questions
Before you buy
Which version should I get?
If you want to start tonight, the e-book. If you like writing things down, the e-book + digital workbook. If you want a real book on your nightstand, the paperback, which comes with the digital workbook free. The paperback set is both books in print.
How do I get the PDF?
Right after checkout you'll get an email with your download link. The PDF opens on any phone, tablet or computer.
When will the paperback arrive?
Each paperback is printed to order and sent by tracked mail. Most US orders arrive in 2 to 3 weeks, and we email you the tracking number as soon as it ships. Shipping is included in the price. Ordering from outside the US? Email miravalsted@gmail.com before you order and we'll tell you how long it takes to reach you.
Is this medical advice?
No. Rebirth is a companion, not a doctor or a therapist. It explains what's common and when to get help, and its last chapter lists the warning signs and numbers to call. If you're worried about yourself, please talk to your doctor or midwife.
I'm pregnant. Is it too early?
Not at all. Many readers start in the last months of pregnancy, so the first weeks feel less like a surprise.
The story mentions a hard beginning. Is it okay to read?
The opening story mentions sexual assault briefly, with nothing graphic, and tells you how to skip straight to Chapter 1 if today isn't the day for it.
What if it's not for me?
You have 30 days. Email miravalsted@gmail.com within 30 days of your purchase and ask for a refund. Full details are in our refund policy.
About Rebirth by Mira Valsted
Rebirth is a book about matrescence, the change a woman goes through when she becomes a mother. It's as big as adolescence, and almost nobody talks about it. Through Mira's story and practical, honest chapters, it helps new mothers and mothers-to-be understand what they're feeling, find their people, and slowly find their way back to themselves.