Pregnancy Relationships

A 360-degree guide to pregnancy for first-time parents—demystify your doubts and make healthy choices for yourself and your baby. From the wild surprise that brings tears of joy to a gradual, somewhat anxious, realization that things are going to change, pregnancy is a roller-coaster of emotions, expectations, and the promise of a new life.

Alpha sea dragon Kai has a problem with his impulses. He’d rather run his guesthouse or hit the waves with his brothers than worry about the unwanted expectations of his family and clan, who have him pinned as the island’s next great chief. However, after forgetting an offhanded promise he made to his ailing grandmother that he would have a fiancé by her big birthday reunion, Kai is now in panic mode trying to find an omega crazy enough for the task. Enter Visir, the stoic forest dragon bodyguard on a mission to paradise. When a riptide accident puts him in Kai’s debt, Visir is quick...

Dr. Le-Bucklin's parenting book is the first by a pediatrician who is also a mother of twins. No other pregnancy and parenting book for multiples offers this unique and much-needed perspective. Twins 101 features practical advice and well-researched information. From maintaining a healthy twin pregnancy to meeting the daily challenge of caring for twins, Twins 101 guides families through each stage with insightful tips, practical advice, useful resources, and inspirational stories.

You're having a baby! Or at least your partner is which means you are too. Not literally of course, but you’ll be in the middle of nine months of flying hormones, back rubs, and excitement, anticipation and nervousness the like of which you’ve never experienced before. You’re in for the ride of your life. And you're going to be a dad. Fatherhood is just around the corner and it’s ace – but are you ready? Most pregnancy books are for the mother but this one is just for you, the new father.

In the last 30 years, the process of starting a family has drastically changed. There many more options for getting pregnant and dizzying array of variables from start to finish. Genetic test or no genetic test? Midwife or OB-GYN? All this choice can create anxiety, especially around the most difficult realities. Miscarriages and fertility issues are common, yet often concealed. One in nine mothers report dealing with postpartum depression, but it is rarely acknowledged and even more rarely treated. Enter Leslie Schrock, first-time mother whose own struggles opened her eyes.

Expert hypnobirthing teacher and founder of The Positive Birth Company, Siobhan Miller has made it her mission to change the way women around the world approach and experience birth. Through her teaching she seeks to educate and empower women—and their birth partners—so that they can enjoy amazing and positive birth experiences, however they choose to bring their babies into the world. Siobhan debunks common myths about hypnobirthing and explains why she believes it can make every type of birth a better experience—from a water birth at home to an unplanned caesarean in theatre.

Elena I feel his presence before I see him. A shadow lingering in the periphery of my life, watching, waiting. I tell myself it's paranoia. That the powerful man who stands across the street every night, his gaze burning through the glass, isn’t really here for me. But I know better. Dominic Valenti doesn’t watch without reason. And when he finally steps out of the shadows and into my life, I realize too late that I was never meant to escape him. He doesn’t just want to own me. He wants to break me. And the most terrifying part? I think I want it too. Dominic She runs a failing ...

Trying to get pregnant is enough to make any woman impatient. The Impatient Woman's Guide to Getting Pregnant is a complete guide to the medical, psychological, social, and sexual aspects of getting pregnant, told in a funny, compassionate way, like talking to a good friend who's been through it all. And in fact Dr. Jean Twenge has been through it all - the mother of three young children, she started researching fertility when trying to conceive for the first time.

En este libro, Daniela Merchant Careaga brinda las fases fisiológicas de un plan de alimentación para mujeres embarazadas y las que amamantan, así como para el bebé hasta su primer año de vida. Describe paso a paso y con ejemplos cómo calcular los requerimientos energéticos y nutricionales para diseñar este plan. Los datos y recomendaciones que esta obra ofrece se basan en valores recomendados para la población mexicana y en consensos internacionales.

Last I checked, love wasn’t on the menu. Who needs it. Expectations with a side of white picket fence? Pass. My wife is my career. I treat her well and reap the rewards. You don’t get to be a hotshot lawyer with my reputation with a ball and chain. It’s simple math. So is lending a hand to someone who needs it. Like my friend’s sister, who’s down on her luck and in need of a second chance. Lucky for her, I’m in a position to give it. And I’m down for other positions too… if she’s willing to try them. She’s temptation and I’m the sucker. There’s so much more to her ...

This holistic guide offers practical advice to support women through postpartum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels - and provides women with a roadmap to this very important transition that can last from a few months to a few years. Kimberly Ann Johnson draws from her vast professional experience as a doula, postpartum consultant, yoga teacher, body worker, and women's health care advocate, and from the healing traditions of Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, and herbalism - as well as her own personal experience - to cover everything you need to know....

It’s time for a childbirth revolution. Childbirth has always been, and always will be, a significant rite of passage that transforms a woman into a mother. However, the modern approach to maternity care fails women, families, and care providers with outdated practices that center the needs of institutions rather than individuals. In this audiobook, Rachel Reed demonstrates how childbirth can be reclaimed to center women and support birth physiology.

Our eyes met, and my world flipped. He’s off-limits and nothing like the guys I've dated before, which only makes me want him even more. We're different in so many ways. We didn't grow up with the same privileges, yet our hearts and desires are remarkably similar. His tall, muscular body, adorned with black ink, takes my breath away. When our lips touch, the world around us disappears, leaving only the warmth of his embrace. Our relationship is a whirlwind of fire and steam until we hit a wall, hard. Separation sets in, and my world turns dark. I want him and only him. How could he do ...

How many concussions have I had this year? That's the only explanation for the news I just received. It’s been a crazy year. I’ve been shot at, blown up, and knocked out more times than I can count. But this next phase takes the cake. Now - you can also add knocked up to that list. Sweet Oprah! If you think a surprise pregnancy at the age of 40 was a shock to me, you should see what happened to Luke. But adding a baby into our lives is going to be a challenge. My cottage is barely big enough for the two of us. Especially since he’s one of those dreaded morning people. Sometimes I ...

I didn’t know I've been sleeping with a deadly assassin. Cyrus is danger personified, and our liaison goes beyond the sheets—I'm carrying his child. The night he walks into the bar, my past collides with our future. He creates a fake relationship to protect me, and now we're off to Greece, the sparks between us igniting a mission fraught with peril. He can't know about the life growing inside me, but with each shared glance, the truth becomes a harder secret to keep. I'm entangled in his world, torn between love and the dangerous game we play. If only he knew the real reason I can't let...

This second edition of Breastfeeding Made Simple is an essential guide to breastfeeding that every new and expectant mom should own - a comprehensive resource that takes the mystery out of basic breastfeeding dynamics. Understanding the seven natural laws of breastfeeding will help you avoid and overcome challenges such as low milk production, breast refusal, weaning difficulties, and every other obstacle that can keep you from enjoying breastfeeding your baby.

One weekend. One fake relationship. One very real problem... Willow Von Bates has a plan: show up to her family’s Cotswolds getaway with a hot, doting boyfriend and finally get her snobby parents off her back. Enter Francesco Santoro—Italian billionaire, serial heartbreaker, and her oldest (and mostly harmless) friend. It’s all supposed to be fake. Emphasis on supposed to be. They’ve been strictly platonic for years—except for that one drunken night they definitely don’t talk about. But now they’re playing couple in close quarters, sharing a cozy fire-lit room, fake kisses, ...

The fourth title in Dawn Dais' popular parenting series, The Sh!t No One Tells You About Pregnancy is quite possibly the funniest and most heartfelt yet. After all, pregnancy is not all about scanning Pinterest for baby shower themes and registering for ironic onesies, and sometimes the less flattering aspects of gestation have a way of dimming a bit of that so-called pregnancy glow. Not to worry! Dawn is here, ready to shepherd you through the experience of one human body taking on the task of growing another human body.

I've been stolen by a Mafia bad boy after he loses to his brother at poker The Morelli brother’s rivalry is limitless, so when I’m promised to marry into their family they organize a poker game with the prize being me. When his silver-fox brother wins and claims me as his bride, Franco gets pissed. Franco Morelli is an alpha who’s commanding presence leaves my panties wet. The attraction we share is exhilarating, but I’m off-limits to him. While held up in the confines of the Morelli mansion I submit to Franco’s secret seductions and let him sinfully thrust me into ecstasy. With ...

Avery: I came to this secluded cabin to escape, to find a moment of peace in the mountains. What I never expected was to walk in on three towering, rugged alphas who refuse to let me leave. They say I belong to them—that they can feel it in their bones. And when my heat surges with an intensity I’ve never experienced, I know they’re right. Luke: From the moment Avery walked into our cabin, my instincts roared to claim her. She’s an omega—a rare one. Sweet, untamed, and meant to be ours. She fights it at first, but I see the truth in her eyes. She wants this. She wants us. And ...