Parenting Baby

The mother of two young daughters, journalist Sophie Brickman wondered what living in a tech-saturated world was doing to her and her children. She turned to experts, academics, doctors, and innovators for advice and insight. Baby, Unplugged brings together Brickman’s in-depth research with her own candid (sometimes hilarious) personal experience to help parents sort through the wide and often confusing tech offerings available today and to sort out what’s helpful and what’s not.

What do you do when the unthinkable happens? Elle Wright had an admittedly easy pregnancy - her scans went well, she and her baby were healthy throughout, and in May 2016, she and her husband welcomed their son, Teddy, into the world. Just a few hours after giving birth, they woke to find a nurse holding a cold and unresponsive Teddy, who had stopped breathing during the night. The happiest day of Elle's life had turned into every parent's worst nightmare, and she had to let her beautiful baby boy go.

Taking good care of yourself in the first three months of your new baby’s life—the fourth trimester—brings crucial benefits for you, for your baby, and for your partner and family. With this important book, you now have the resources to have an ideal fourth trimester experience. Cynthia Gabriel, a doula and the author of the best-selling book Natural Hospital Birth, delivers all the information, guidance, and encouragement you need as a new mother to take care of your body, mind, and spirit during the vital months of the fourth trimester.

For many years, Davidson earned a living as a successful journalist and screenwriter, but in her 50s she saw her life come apart: she could no longer find work, she endured a break-up with her partner, and her children left for college. For the first time ever, she had nothing to do. She felt adrift, but she found that she was not alone. In Leap!, Davidson sets out on a passionate quest to learn how to do the coming years well.

In The Baby Loss Guide Zoe provides a supportive and practical guide to walk people through their darkest days of suffering and give them hope for the future. Through practical advice interlaced with personal stories from individuals who have been there, she explores the different types of baby loss, the major myths and assumptions around baby loss and the grieving process and tackles the big taboos such as intimacy following loss, returning to work and trying for another child.

50 Things to Know About Making Your Own Baby Food offers an approach to making your own baby food that even the busiest parent can appreciate. Based on knowledge from the world's leading experts, you will find out how to create the healthiest meals that your baby will enjoy eating.

Licensed marriage and family therapist Catherine O’Brien and her husband lay out the communication skills and relationship strategies that new moms and dads need during baby’s first year and beyond. Navigate through difficult circumstances like overcoming a hard pregnancy with step-by-step help. With this uplifting guide of advice, you’ll transform into a couple who works together to be the best caregivers for your baby.

A STAND-ALONE NOVEL: From #1 Amazon bestselling author Ann Marie Bryan comes the highly anticipated final installment in the Encounters of the Heart series—a riveting story about rising from the ashes, unlocking love, and learning to create and maintain an atmosphere of faith. Chandler Peynard has it all—family, fame, fortune, and salvation. This A-list celebrity has come a long way from his philandering days. That’s no longer his style. He’s head-over-heels in love with Sabrina, his wife, and in full pursuit of God’s calling on his life. But when shadows of the past beckon, he ...

Becoming a dad is like unlocking a new level in the game of life – exciting, challenging, and completely transformative. Every journey starts with a step, and this book is that step towards a more confident, joyful, and balanced fatherhood.

Affirmations are known to have a beneficial effect on many different aspects of life. During pregnancy, they are so important and allow you to rewire your brain and train your mindset for positivity which is essential for enjoying your pregnancy and achieving the relaxed and calm birth experience you have been dreaming of.

The heartache of miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death affects thousands of United States families every year. Empty Cradle, Broken Heart, Third Edition offers reassurance to parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair during and after such a tragedy. In this new and updated edition, Deborah Davis encourages grieving and strives to cover many different kinds of loss, including information on issues such as the death of one or more babies from a multiple birth, pregnancy interruption, and the questioning of aggressive medical intervention.

In her authentic and down-to-earth voice, Amelia will guide new mums through this time of great physical and emotional change.

From the pediatrician who became an Internet sensation with the “Hamilton Hold” in a YouTube video about how to calm a crying baby comes a one-of-a-kind resource to guide you through the earliest moments of your child’s life - and help you to parent with common sense and confidence.

The Sleep Guide for Babies: 3-18 Months Old audiobook, written by award winning holistic sleep consultant Iva Faulknerova, it offers a gentle, holistic approach to baby sleep that helps parents nurture healthy sleep habits in their little ones. Created by an expert in gentle sleep training, this guide focuses on promoting self-soothing techniques and establishing consistent daytime and bedtime routines without using CIO (cry-it-out) or controlled crying methods.

Every parent’s dream is within your reach. In Parenting Siblings Without Rivalry, you will discover how to equip your kids with the right skills to manage conflicts on their own, so you won’t have to, how to prepare your children for a new arrival in the family, the essential family activity you should regularly schedule to defuse any issues before they escalate, why you shouldn’t treat your children equally, and how to treat them instead, how to handle your child’s feelings of jealousy when one child needs or gets more attention than the other, and more.

You have a million questions racing through your mind. Am I ready to be a Dad? Can I provide the support my partner needs? Coupled with that, you feel a whirlwind of mixed emotions, including anxiety, fear, exhilaration, and worry. Just take a minute. Breathe…you've got this! It's completely normal to feel lost and overwhelmed. You are just human, after all.

Many folks will look at the title of this book and immediately think that it's promoting eugenics or some other farfetched idea that is illogical. This novella is a well thought out discussion of why we have a birthrate crisis in over 75% of the countries in the world. We don't fully understand why we have low birthrates globally, and we can sit around all day and deliberate how to solve these issues. We need solutions for the plebs and waiting doesn't make sense as these programs should have been put in place decades ago as it takes two decades for a child to be raised. Many developed ...

Dave Barry exposes natural childbirth for what it is: a pop phenomenon of the 1960's that, along with paisley bell-bottoms and creative sideburns, deserves a rest. His new book gives parents-to-be the hard facts they need. He examines the new federal law requiring prospective fathers to free themselves from their self-made macho prison - to laugh, cry, love and just generally behave like certified wimps.

I believe in competition, but I want things to be fair. When I was a kid, I would give my younger brothers a head start to make the race fair. Let's use sports as an analogy that everybody in America can identify with. Let's use MLB and the NFL as examples. Right now, I feel like the world is more like Major League Baseball. After the first month of the season, we know who is going to win, because the teams with the highest payroll have the best chance to win, it's anti-climactic, and it's not equitable Because its predictable, it's less creative, and it's the same teams winning.

You're What? is the no-BS, real-talk survival guide for anyone who's about to face pregnancy head-on—whether planned, unexpected, or somewhere in between. This isn’t your typical baby book. It’s not full of medical jargon. It won’t tell you what you should do. And it definitely won’t sugarcoat the chaos. Written with empathy, humor, and zero judgment, You're What? is the book every panicked parent-to-be wishes they had. Whether you're 17 or 37, this guide is here to help you breathe, plan, and realize: You’ve got this.