I Did It. Maternity Abroad Is Now on Kindle Unlimited.

Jun 2

I did it.

Aloe vera eye mask on. Decision made. Maternity Abroad is now enrolled in Kindle Unlimited.

People have been asking me about this for a while and I kept putting it off the way you put off things that feel like a bigger decision than they actually are. And then this morning I sat down, put my aloe vera eye mask on because my skin deserves good things even when my to-do list does not, and did the thing.

If you are a Kindle Unlimited subscriber you can read Maternity Abroad: Becoming a Mother in a Foreign Land as part of your existing membership. No additional cost. No new subscription. No decision to make beyond opening the app.

Jessica Gabrielzyk with aloe vera eye mask

Maternity Abroad is for the mother giving birth in a country that was not built for her. The one navigating a foreign healthcare system in a language she is still learning, without her village, without anyone who has been where she is. Every pregnancy book assumed you had a village. This one assumed you had a food delivery app and a robot vacuum.

And here is why this one specifically makes sense for Kindle Unlimited. Maternity Abroad is not a book you read once from cover to cover and put away. It is a book you pick up when you need it, put down when life happens, and come back to when the next stage arrives. The chapter on navigating a foreign healthcare system when you are pregnant abroad. The chapter on pain management when you are getting closer to the birth. The chapter on postpartum without your village when you are raising a newborn in a country that is not yours.

Kindle Unlimited means it is always in your library. Always ready. No decision required at 2am when you need it most.

The reader who needs this book most is often the one with the least left over. The book should reach her. Whatever that takes.

If you have Kindle Unlimited, it is already there. Link below.

Jessica Gabrielzyk

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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.

I Did It. Maternity Abroad Is Now on Kindle Unlimited.

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