Baby Development

Serial entrepreneur Matt Shoup shows how to establish real and deep connections, build true rapport, and create long-lasting trust with clients and others you serve. He invites you on an empowering journey to explore your imperfections and grow comfortable with your guard down, allowing the rawest, most compelling version of yourself to shine through. You’ll learn the tenets of great storytelling, why crafting your message counts, and how to communicate with conviction, even when you’re vulnerable.

Nazzario Da Lima, affectionately known as "The Baby Coach," shares her highly effective sleep-training method in this step-by-step guide to let both baby and parent enjoy long, peaceful nights. Full of common sense and specific tips, the Baby Coach's plan offers time- and family-tested techniques to help any baby up to the age of 18 months who has trouble sleeping through the night.

Breastfeeding isn’t solely a mother’s endeavor; it requires steadfast support from partners, especially new dads. “New Dads: A Basic Guide to Supporting the Breastfeeding Mother and Baby” offers a blueprint for dads to become proactive allies in the breastfeeding process. Backed by research from the National Institutes of Health, it emphasizes how a father’s knowledge, attitude, and involvement significantly impact breastfeeding success. This guide delves into essential details, from the nutritional needs of breastfeeding mothers to advocating for their rights.

In Parenting by Heart, Pinky McKay encourages parents to trust their own instincts, and connections with their children. Practical advice is offered with Pinky's trademark humour and covers birth choices, breast-feeding, postnatal depression, sleep, crying, gentle discipline, and building self-esteem (yours and your child's!). Along the way Pinky gives excellent advice for dealing with unwanted inquiries from family and friends.

Every day, healthy women have difficulty becoming pregnant and find themselves calling fertility clinics or just giving up their dreams of ever becoming parents. Little do they know that there are many different things they can do to increase their chances of conceiving. Once they learn how to increase their chances of getting pregnant, they soon find they're on the way to becoming parents and holding their own little bundles of joy. This book is intended to help you get one step closer to that goal.

Angelina Moehlmann invites listeners to journey with her on a raw and emotional path to motherhood through adoption. Faced with the challenges of infertility, unexpected setbacks, and the overwhelming uncertainty of the adoption process, Angelina never gave up on her dream of becoming a mother. In this heartwarming memoir, Angelina shares the struggles, tears, and ultimate triumph of her adoption story, capturing the moments that made her stronger along the way.

Are you tired of just "babysitting" and are ready to build a fulfilling career as a nanny? Look no further than Beyond Babysitting: A Comprehensive Guide to Navigating Your Nanny Career. This book provides an essential roadmap for those interested in building a successful career in childcare.

Keeping a simple topic-by-topic description of every question a would-be parent would have, this guide allows you to take the first potentially overwhelming step to deciding whether you want to have a baby, holds your hand in a fast and flip-through friendly version of every tip out there about preparing for one, offering realistic advice, practical tips, and information that is accessible to equip you to be the parent of your dreams. At last! A new parent’s guide to handling a new born that does not ignore all the questions you have but are afraid to ask.

Take the leap from terrified newbie to confident dad in your first year of fatherhood – even if diapers seem unsolvable and swaddles make you sweat! You're not alone. Fatherhood is like assembling an Ikea cupboard with no instructions – simple in theory, confusing in practice. You don’t need to be an expert to conquer fatherhood. All you need are the right tools and a touch of humor. What if there was a guide just for you – a first-time dad – with practical advice, ingenious baby hacks, and entertaining anecdotes? Well, that guide exists!

Parenting practices vary widely between countries and cultures. For example, in countries such as the Philippines, breastfeeding after one year is common. In Korea, babies eat a variety of spices and flavors, helping them develop a diverse palate and healthy eating habits. And in Italy, parents prevent separation anxiety by taking their babies to markets, restaurants, and churches and passing them around from person to person. Feed the Baby Hummus teaches parents to confidently incorporate various multicultural practices into their own caretaking plan.

Whether you've just had a baby or you're about to welcome your new little bundle into the world, you probably have a lot of questions.... I know I did! And I also know from firsthand experience with my three babies that one-size-fits-all parenting doesn't work. So this audiobook is to help you find out what will work for you and your baby when it comes to feeding, sleeping, well-being, lifestyle, and looking after yourself.

Timeless Wisdom for Fearless Fatherhood: A First-Time Dad's Trusted Companion for Unshakable Confidence and Becoming the Leader Your New Family Deserves. Stumbling through parenting advice overload? Struggling to balance work, family, and partner? This book is your ultimate guide to conquer doubts, embrace parenthood, and never miss a beat in your child's life.

Your baby has a strong desire to communicate, but it isn’t always easy to work out just what they are trying to tell you. In this fascinating, research-led book, parenting author Tanith Carey and Clinical Psychologist Dr Angharad Rudkin explains just what your new baby might be thinking, in 75 typical scenarios, from newborn to two years old.

Get your baby sleeping through the night, with the help of a leading baby and child sleep expert. Lucy Wolfe, a baby and child sleep expert, introduces the stay-and-support method for parents who want to help their babies sleep through the night. With sleep-shaping supports for newborns, top tips for toddlers, and advice for older children up to the age of six, Lucy's approach provides a gentle and emotionally considerate way to get your little one to sleep - without leaving them alone to cry, ensuring they feel loved, safe and secure at all times.

Since having her first child nine years ago, Sarah Ockwell-Smith has worked tirelessly to prepare parents for the birth of their child. An antenatal teacher and a doula, with a background in psychology, she founded an award-winning company Babycalm ™ with one aim in mind—to turn stressed-out new parents and crying babies into happier parents and calmer babies. BabyCalm will help you understand your baby and yourself as a new parent.

It’s 2am but your baby thinks it’s party time; their ‘routine’ seems to change with the wind, and you would do anything to get a good night’s sleep. We know how you feel! You might be prepared and listening to this before baby arrives, or as they snooze beside you in those early new-born days, knowing that forewarned is forearmed. Or your eyebags may tell their own bedtime story. Either way, if your baby is not sleeping, you have not done anything wrong. Your baby is not broken (although you might feel broken from lack of sleep), and you are not a bad parent.

The 2021 Book of Baby Names has over 1,700 first names to help you to decide on the right name for your baby. There is a wide variety to choose from, with both modern and classic names listed alphabetically, with pronunciations, origins, and meanings all included to give you a better understanding of each name. Each name has been divided up into easily readable sections. Agreeing on a special baby name can be one of the most difficult yet rewarding decisions that any parent can make during their lifetime. This book can help make choosing a baby name easy and lots of fun.

Bist du es leid, Nacht für Nacht wach zu bleiben, weil dein Baby nicht einschlafen kann? Wünschst du dir auch nur eine Nacht, in der dein Kind durchschläft, damit du endlich wieder erholter und entspannter bist? Sehnst du dich zurück nach mehr Me-Time oder Paarzeit am Abend? Die renommierte Autorin und Schlafexpertin Stefanie Baum bietet dir in ihrem neuesten Werk „Happy Baby - Einschlafen, durchschlafen, glücklich sein“ eine Fülle von wertvollen Einschlafhilfen und Techniken, die auf jahrelanger Erfahrung und tiefgreifendem Wissen basieren.

Are you sweating bullets at the prospect of not having a clue about this whole "being a dad" thing? Wondering if you'll be the superhero your pregnant partner and unborn mini-me deserve? If you’ve been nodding along to any of this, keep reading, because relief is on the way. Just by being here, you're already giving yourself a huge advantage at the dad game. So take a deep dive, learn the ropes, and envision yourself as the ultimate supportive partner that she deserves.

As your baby develops in your body, you and your husband look forward to the days when you can hold your bundle of joy. You smile as you think about your future, but you never imagine that problems can occur in your relationship after your baby is born. As a new parent, you can easily become overwhelmed. You have a new world of responsibilities, new worries and new stresses, and no matter how strong your relationship is, you may find that you struggle in your new role.