How your family can survive and thrive with a new baby! International author, midwife, maternal & child health nurse and mother of four, Belinda Joyce shares her wisdom and experience both professional and personal to help make your transition to parenting a success. Becoming a parent has many challenges but this book will help you to find the joy and confidence in parenting your own way. You'll learn: - How to get more sleep for you and your baby - The questions and answers you wanted to know but were too afraid to ask - Proven ways to stimulate your baby's development to ensure they reach their full potential - An expert's stress-free plan to improve feeding challenges - Tips for choosing the essential items for you and your baby - Simple steps to calm the chaos and enjoy parenting more - Exactly what to do when your baby won't stop crying Practical steps for you to learn powerful parenting secrets! Proudly supporting Red Nose through the donation of 10% of profits from book sales

How to Survive Your Baby’s First Year is here to help make that first year with a new baby a lot easier. The book offers advice from hundreds of parents who have made it through the first year with their own babies and lived to share the secrets of their success.

As a practicing pediatrician and mother of two young daughters, Dr. Whitney Casares understands balancing family and career first-hand. In The Working Mom Blueprint, she combines honest insights about her own challenges with professional expertise about children of working moms--they thrive!--to create a reassuring guide to navigating modern motherhood. Dr. Casares offers a practical plan that covers setting priorities, cultivating self-care, finding child care, establishing an equal parenting partnership, delegating whenever appropriate, and more.

The new mom initiation ritual involves sleepless nights, an inexplicable obsession with baby booties, and more questions than answers. This take on everything baby offers new moms the Christian girlfriend advice she needs to feel confident in her new role

Everything you need to know about pregnancy--from weight gain to stretch marks to figuring out how to rely on Christ through the ups and downs of the next nine months. This comprehensive guide is packed with information that every newly pregnant Christian mama needs--including: help for pregnancy insomnia, morning sickness, weight gain and more advice on how to maintain a godly attitude and outlook during pregnancy--even when you're feeling anything but godly what to expect from doctor check-ups, your encounters with the scale and labor and delivery tips on how to survive food cravings, aversions, and even dreaded pregnancy exercise healthy eating advice for pregnancy that doesn't outright ban ice cream sundaes ideas on how to keep your marriage a priority when you're pregnant, including a guide for Christian dads-to-be and even pregnancy sex tips This detailed guide takes you through each trimester with helpful tips, humorous accounts, and supportive spiritual advice--all with a girlfriend-to-girlfriend approach that will help moms feel comfortable as they navigate this life-changing time.

Reassurance for parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair after a miscarriage, stillbirth, infant death.

A provocative and deeply important study of women’s lives, women’s choices—and an ‘unspoken taboo’—that questions the societal pressures forcing women into motherhood Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be true—that women who have children might regret it. Drawing on years of research interviewing women from a variety of socioeconomic, educational, and professional backgrounds, sociologist Orna Donath treats regret as a feminist issue: as regret marks the road not taken, we need to consider whether alternative paths for women currently are blocked off. She asks that we pay attention to what is forbidden by rules governing motherhood, time, and emotion, including the cultural assumption that motherhood is a “natural” role for women—for the sake of all women, not just those who regret becoming mothers. If we are disturbed by the idea that a woman might regret becoming a mother, Donath says, our response should not be to silence and shame these women; rather, we need to ask honest and difficult questions about how society pushes women into motherhood and why those who reconsider it are still seen as a danger to the status quo. Groundbreaking, thoughtful, and provocative, this is an especially needed book in our current political climate, as women's reproductive rights continue to be at the forefront of national debates.