BUZZ BOOK: Toasting Mom
As a mom of three, Nicole Saphier, MD, a medical contributor on Fox News and a radiologist and director of Breast Imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth, knows no one can write the book on motherhood. That’s why she gathered her mom-colleagues and fans to create a collection of essays, memories and musings in the new book “Love, Mom: Inspiring Stories Celebrating Motherhood” (Fox News Books, out now).
Saphier opens the book with her story of having her son, Nick, as a teen. Undeterred, Saphier went to medical school, Nick in tow. Her first day of residency was Nick’s first day of first grade. Now that Nick is in college (and she has two additional sons) Saphier has some takeaways for other parents (and her younger self) including not trying to be erything at once. “When in the hospital, I try not to think about my son’s upcoming soccer game; that not fair to my patients. When I’m at my son’s instrumental concert, I try not look at biopsy results on my phone, because that’s also not fair. Everything has a time and a place.”
Kayleigh McEnany, former White House press secretary and current Fox News political commentator, writes about having her children after a preventive mastectomy in 2018 due to a positive BRCA 2 mutation. McEnany went through two pregnancies while living with the prospect of a cancer diagnosis and today has son and daughter. She also ites about juggling the 20 presidential campaign trail with a newborn, and how she handles her new role as a working mom. Her takeaway: “There will always be another task, another impossible deadline. My children are my biggest blessing and gift, and time slips away too fast. I don’t want to miss a minute of it,” she writes.
Interspersed with entries by other Fox-moms are vignettes from Fox fans, who also share views on singular-yet-universal musings. “Mom doesn’t see herself as anything important,” writes Fox viewer Sandra Champlain about her mother, Marion. “But I know — and everyone who meets her knows, too — that she is a uniquely intuitive, insightful, caring, generous, loving person. She’s amazing, and she is my best friend.”
Because, while motherhood is hard/frustrating/exasperating/fill in the blank, one thing is for sure: Sometimes moms need to be reminded that they’re never alone.