Maternity Abroad Book Now Available at Maia Library, Portugal – Read for Free

📚 Exciting News from the Maia Municipal Library!

We’re thrilled to share that the book Maternity Abroad: Becoming a Mother in a Foreign Land is now part of the collection at the Dr. José Vieira de Carvalho Municipal Library in Maia, Portugal—and it’s available for free reading in both English and Portuguese! 🇵🇹✨

👶🌍 A Genuine Guide for Real Moms in Foreign Lands

This book is like a warm hug in the form of pages for women who are pregnant or planning motherhood far from their home country. Beyond practical tips and valuable guidance, it features real-life stories from immigrant mothers who share their experiences with courage and openness.

📝 Topics You’ll Discover:

• 🩺 Prenatal care in foreign healthcare systems

• 🤰 Childbirth methods around the world

• 🍼 Postpartum traditions in different cultures

• 🩻 How to choose a pediatrician abroad

• 📑 Bureaucracy and legal aspects of global motherhood

Maternity Abroad Book Cover

📖 Curious to take a peek inside? Read an exclusive excerpt or grab your copy of “Motherhood Abroad: Becoming a Mom in a Foreign Country” — the guide that’s winning the hearts of immigrant moms around the globe! 🌍💛

👉 Read a sneak peek or buy the book here

• 🤝 Emotional and social support networks for expatriate moms

📍 Library Information:

Address: Rua Eng.º Duarte Pacheco - Fórum da Maia

Operating Hours:

September to July:

Monday: 6:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Tuesday to Friday: 9:30 AM – 11:00 PM

Saturday: 9:30 AM – 10:30 PM

Sunday: Closed

August:

Monday to Friday: 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM and 2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Saturday and Sunday: Closed

🔗 For more information, visit the library’s official website.

📩 A Special Thank You:

I warmly received this email from the library:

“On behalf of the Head of the Maia Municipal Library, Dr. Patrícia Loureiro, we would like to thank you for the kind monographic donation made to the Dr. José Vieira de Carvalho Municipal Library, which will enrich our Documentary Fund and will undoubtedly be an asset to the users of this Library.”

💛 For Immigrant Mothers of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

If you are or will be a mother abroad, this book is a must-read. Now accessible to all at the Maia Library—come be moved, learn, and feel that you are not alone on this journey.

Jessica Gabrielzyk

Jessica Gabrielzyk is a Brazilian writer living in Switzerland. She moved there with her husband and daughter, who was three months old at the time and had strong opinions about the whole thing even then.

She writes about change.

The visible kind and the kind that happens inside a person, while everything on the outside looks fine.

Her first book, Maternity Abroad, explored what it means to become a mother far from the system you trusted. It has reached readers in more than fifteen countries across five continents. Parenting Unpacked, her second book, follows the experience of parenting through major life disruption, whether that's an international move, a career loss, a new baby, or a life that simply stops responding the way it used to. My First American Coloring Book was created to help toddlers engage with daily life in the United States through play and familiar imagery.

She is a member of SIETAR, the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research, and the International Academy of Brazilian Literature.

She writes for the parent who is still inside it, getting through the day, and wondering somewhere underneath all of it who they are becoming.

When she is not writing, she is walking forty minutes uphill with a stroller, telling herself the exercise is the point.

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