Down Came The Rain

This book was a great comfort to me when I had post natal depression. It beautifully explains all the emotions and turmoils of being a new mum and helped me to feel not so alone. Obviously, her life is completely different. I remember crying when she said she hired a night nurse. I was exhausted and......more

The show that happens to be airing is not for me because I can’t tolerate stories of abuse. Hopefully comments are about this review; not redundant referrals to that TV series. My Mom & I were moved to hear of Brooke Shields’ revolutionizing post partum depression book in 2005. I spotted this secondh......more

So I choose to read this book because of my curiosity with postpartum depression and I was told it was an honest account. True it is honest, but the writing was less than fair... (I never knew that she had a degree in French literature from Princeton, maybe she'd have done better if she had written......more

MY husband bought this book for me a few days after I was diagnosed with major post partum depression. Only after seeing an interview with Brooke Shields on a morning tv show did I finally get help. I didn't understand what was wrong with me -- when I heard her speak about what she had been through......more

I wasn't a huge fan of the writing style. I thought she went into way too much detail about her fertility treatments and childbirth. I kept thinking 'poor little rich girl'. But then if she didnt it wouldn't have been a very long book as it is only 225 the way it is and a quick read. If it had been......more