What does it feel like to experience your body cleaving into two bodies during fierce debates about fetal separateness and reproductive rights?

This Watery Place explores the intimate and physical experiences of conception, gestation, and neonatal care, grounding these experiences in the contemporary political landscape. Drawing from her journey of motherhood, Emma Heaney examines how these profound moments intersect with broader issues of reproductive justice and gendered healthcare.

Through chapters on fetal separability, medicalized conception, and the realities of childbirth and infant care, the book delves into the embodied realities that are often mystified or overlooked. Heaney's narrative weaves personal anecdotes with a critical reflection on the politics of birth, childcare, and the demands of modern life. This Watery Place is a meditation on motherhood's physical and emotional transformations and a call for a world that better supports life in all its forms.