Afterbirth - Stories You Won't Read In a Parenting Magazine

Have you ever seen a room full of women laughing.  I don't mean a dainty, toss your head back, polite half-laugh, half-smile you see in stock photos. 

I'm talking a room full of women guffawing, falling over on their sides, dropping their heads on to the table, streaming mascara tears, snorting out their chardonnay laughing.  

What a lovely sight. 

What caused this un-lady like scene?  Afterbirth - Stories You Won't Read In a Parenting Magazine - a comedy show I attended at the Triad Theater in New York. (And now also a book by the same name). 

(Just for the record, the guys were hooting it up as well.)

Afterbirth is a collection of stories from real parents - moms and dads, sharing their honest adventures in parenting.   As the book jacket says:

Afterbirth's meaty topic is the unvarnished truth about parenting and how it's full of surprising if not idiotic situations.  Afterbirth is about why it can be dangerous to tell people what you really think about being a mommy, about what happens when your kids aren't who you'd expected they'd be, about unforeseen parental rage and unexpected parental resignation.  

Afterbirth is also funny - the contributors are some of the best comic writers and performers working today, turning attention very close to home and sparing no one, least of all themselves.  

After having the seen the show- I can vouch for the fact you certainly won't be reading these stories in any magazines.