First Year Parenting

Embrace your child’s first year with confidence, love, and curiosity. Arm yourself with essential information, so you can provide your baby with all their needs! This book is here to serve as a guide throughout each stage of early infancy, going through every aspect of your baby’s development, and showing you how to enable them to grow into strong, thriving, resilient children!

Hey there, future superdad! Excited about your baby's grand entrance, but feeling a bit anxious about this whole mini-human adventure? Wondering if you'll be the superhero your partner and unborn mini-me deserve? Are you sweating bullets, freaking out about not having a clue what to expect or do once your baby finally arrives? Feeling a bit overwhelmed by the sea of baby info out there? If you’ve been nodding along to any of this, stay tuned because help is coming your way.

The Incredible Babies audiobook shows you how to promote and understand your baby's physical, social, emotional, and language development. It includes safety alerts, developmental principles, and a journal section where you can capture and preserve your memories of your baby's likes and dislikes, favorite songs, stories, and daily routines.

You want to be the best dad you can possibly be, but the road ahead is new territory paved with new challenges. Make sure you're ready to overcome and avoid them in your journey to becoming the father your child needs. This book will show you the mistakes you’re not going to make and will tell you everything you need to know to make sure you never will.

Whether you're preparing for your baby to arrive, have just welcomed your little one into the world, or are well into the fourth trimester, this guide will ensure you feel supported and informed throughout your baby's first year. Following on from where The Modern Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond left off, this book will take you through the first 48 hours after birth up until your baby's first birthday. From postpartum recovery to establishing a routine and looking out for signs to start weaning, Marie Louise will guide you through each stage of your baby's development.

So, it’s your first pregnancy? You might feel a little anxious. Worried. Wound up? There’re a million things you don’t know, and even more things you would never think of. Wouldn’t it be nice if someone gave you the secrets to make life easier during pregnancy? If you could just listen to a book. Pick up the best tips, tricks, and advice to ease away the worries. Get all the best information in a single resource. Information like, what not to buy so you can save money on the essentials.

In the era of questionable Internet "facts" and parental oversharing, it's more important than ever to find credible information on everything from prenatal vitamins to screen time. The good news is that parents and parents-to-be no longer need to rely on an opinionated mother-in-law about whether it's OK to eat sushi in your third trimester, an old college roommate for sleep-training "rules", or an online parenting group about how long you should breastfeed.

Family therapist and parenting instructor, Pamela Emery teaches parenting classes at two hospitals near her home in Los Angeles, and has been a practicing family therapist for over 20 years. With 4 children of her own, she's seen it all! This book provides the benefit of her education and experience to new parents. She has helped thousands of families raise happy, healthy babies. Let her help you!

This new dad’s guidebook will help you to become the best dad you can be in the first year of your baby’s life, showing you how to ensure your baby is well-fed, well-rested, happy, and growing, while also making sure you and your partner get the rest and care you need.

Mind Over Mother is full of light bulb moments of realisation. It will have you learning, laughing and loving yourself through the journey of motherhood. You will learn to address the most important conversation you'll ever have - the one inside your head, because investing in your mental health is the best gift you can offer yourself and your baby.

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.

Picking up where From Dude to Dad left off, author and founder of the popular Diaper Dude parenting brand Chris Pegula dives into the first two years of parenting and furthers his deeply held belief that you don't have to lose yourself when you become a father. Once again written in Pegula's everyman voice and filled with humorous takes on fatherhood from the front lines, the book is an easy-to-understand resource for new dads, combining hard-won lessons learned, pitfalls to avoid, and practical advice from a dude who hasn't lost his identity (or his sanity).

Keith Gessen was nearing forty and hadn’t given much thought to the idea of being a father. He assumed he would have kids, but couldn’t imagine what it would be like to be a parent, or what kind of parent he would be. Then, one Tuesday night in early June, the distant idea of fatherhood came careening into view: Raffi was born, a child as real and complex and demanding of his parents’ energy as he was singularly magical.

Mindful Mamma is a reassuring and practical guide to help you to navigate the life-changing first year of motherhood. You’ll learn quick and easy mindfulness and hypnosis techniques to create moments of calm wherever you need it - even at four a.m. with a restless baby! As well as this, you’ll discover how to use these powerful tools to help with specific challenges along the way, such as fatigue, anxiety around breastfeeding, relationships and the end of maternity leave.

Are you about to embark on the most exciting journey of your life called marriage? Or maybe you've already said, "I do," and now you're navigating through the first year together? Either way, marriage can be both thrilling and daunting, especially in the beginning. That's why you need a guide, and How to Have a Successful Marriage: 20 Rules for the First Year of Your Marriage, by Dean Talib, is the roadmap you've been searching for!

Most parenting books out there only seem to be for mothers - but you’ve probably already noticed that. No one is helping the dads through the responsibilities of fatherhood. Fatherhood can be one of the most beautiful roles you take on in your lifetime, if you play your cards right. Inside, you will find the resources you need to travel down the line with your newborn and create an everlasting bond between father and child.

Becoming a father for the first time can feel like an overwhelming experience, full of excitement, uncertainty, and a lot of questions. If you’re looking for practical advice, emotional support, and a clear roadmap for navigating the first year of fatherhood, this book is for you. A Guide for First Time Dads is your step-by-step companion to the incredible journey of becoming a dad. Written with the modern father in mind, this comprehensive guide covers everything from preparing for your baby’s arrival to bonding with your newborn and balancing work, life, and fatherhood.

Most bereavement materials are focused on the first year of the grieving experience. For many people, that provides the support, guidance and wisdom that allows the person to deal with the difficult issues that loss presents. However, for some people, the grief journey takes a longer time or it is delayed beyond the first year as a result of complicating factors. We have often been asked, “What do you have for after the first anniversary?”

There is no turning back once you step onto the path of fatherhood. It’s a transformative expedition filled with highs and lows, joys and challenges. The doubts and uncertainties that set in as soon as you learn you're going to be a father will intensify once the baby is born…However, remember that each step you take as a first-time dad is a meaningful stride. And right here, within this audiobook, you'll find a trusted companion to guide you through the uncharted territory of fatherhood.

Although being a new parent can be exciting, most people will tell you that it's overwhelming and emotionally draining. The fear of not knowing what to expect, the expectations you set for yourself, and the pace at which your baby will develop in the first 12 months cause a lot of anxiety for parents. My First Year is more than just a how-to book that will help you raise your baby; it’s a comprehensive and amusing guide that will empower you to tap into the power you know you've always had and raise your baby the best way you know how!