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Many women question whether they want a baby or a childfree life. Motherhood, Is It For Me? is the perfect resource for addressing this crucial life choice. Find out what family planning might really mean for you with this insightful book, which offers every woman a clear path to understanding her ambivalence, moving through it, and making an informed decision about becoming a mother or remaining childfree.
For partnered and single women alike, this...
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New moms run into a host of new challenges once baby arrives, including getting back into shape, developing a parenting style, readjusting schedules, and interacting with their husbands in new ways. With compassion and humor--and always the privilege of motherhood in mind--The New Mom's Guides go straight to the heart of these matters, offering moms guidance and encouragement in this new season of life. Each of the four books in the series offers...
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In this positive and illuminating book, Ann Caron explores the spirit, durability, and complexity of the mother-daughter bond during a time of mutual searching. Daughters, hitting their stride after college, are setting new standards for themselves and questioning their goals and expectations. Mothers, themselves going through major life changes, are also looking for new ways to express themselves. Drawing from her many interviews with women from...
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You can develop a healthier and stronger relationship with your tween or teen!
We want to stay connected with our children but often times, the pressures and distractions of life can pull them away from us. It's never too late to strengthen or mend this relationship. You don't have to be the perfect mom to guide, influence, and stay connected with your youngster during these critical years. You can simply make a few tweaks in your parenting style,...
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The New York Times bestseller--never shy, frequently crude and always funny, Jenny McCarthy gives the lowdown on pregnancy in the grittiest girlfriend detail.
Revealing the naked truth about the tremendous joys, the excruciating pains, and the inevitable disfigurement that go along with pregnancy, Jenny McCarthy tells you what you can really expect when you're expecting! From morning sickness and hormonal rage, to hemorrhoids, granny panties, pregnant...
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"The Sprout That I Sprung" is a novel that focuses on motherhood, contemporary parenting, and family communication, exploring a variety of interpersonal communication challenges and solutions through as seen through the troubles of different couples and families. Ultimately, the novel is a fictional reflection of a very real issue: how language, communication, and good parenting are the keys to human development and personal success.
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New moms run into a host of new challenges once baby arrives, including getting back into shape, developing a parenting style, readjusting schedules, and interacting with their husbands in new ways. With compassion and humor--and always the privilege of motherhood in mind--The New Mom's Guides go straight to the heart of these matters, offering moms guidance and encouragement in this new season of life. Each of the four books in the series offers...
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Pregnancy For The Skeptical Woman takes the reader behind the "glow" of pregnancy and into the belly of beast by addressing everything from trying to conceive to grappling with postpartum stress. A memoir and practical guide, Pregnancy For The Skeptical Woman is, an easy to read account of what woman can expect, the good and bad, through nine months of pregnancy and the first weeks of having a baby. This book explains every prenatal test and screening...
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An old Russian proverb claims that labor will go more smoothly if both parents-to-be confess the names of all their previous lovers. So all that screaming and yelling you hear in the delivery suite? It might not be pain related. When it comes to childbirth and child rearing, what can other cultures teach us about motherhood? And what can we learn from the way our great grandmothers did things? Many young women are looking to folk wisdom and folk tradition...
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You're pregnant. Now what? The baby arrives and you're instantly a mom. Now what, again?! Straight from the trenches, author-and-new(ish)-mom Ivette tells all about pregnancy, delivery, motherhood, and everything in between! Couched in candid recollections of her own experiences and those of other renegade moms, Ivette lays out practical, up-to-date information on all the options you'll be bombarded with-from choices about nutrition & fitness, to...
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Mother's Message in a Bottle is an inspirational collection of over 40 letters from mothers around the world to the people they love. The aim of the book is to provide direction, wisdom, and connection between mothers and their children that will outlast their physical lives. Contributors to this collection include writers, professional speakers, teachers, business executives, and police officers-all moms with important messages to share.
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Good Mom Rules is a labor of love and advocacy designed to help moms identify and conquer the guilt they carry around with them every day. Many moms hold on to "mistakes" they have made or life circumstances that forced them to parent differently than they once imagined. Conquering guilt allows you to live in the present with your children and enjoy motherhood more. This is possible when you have compassion for the younger version of yourself. Releasing...
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Show Mom your appreciation with this classic from New York Times bestselling author Greg Lang. Why A Son Needs a Mom has been bringing together mothers and sons for years, and makes the perfect gift for moms everywhere. A comforting smile, a loving touch, or a soothing voice-Mom knows just the way to ease any woe. Through all of life's moments, she shows the kindness of her heart in endless ways. A Son Needs a Mom...
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For most of us the "mom journey" is wrought with joy and anguish, delight and disappointment, euphoria and exhaustion. It is a selfless occupation, demanding of a master of multi-tasking. At times, mothering can be daunting, leaving us feeling overwhelmed, unappreciated, or invisible. On occasion, we may even wrestle with the urge to drain the bank accounts, fill up the tank, and drive away in silence as far as the highway will take us. Of course,...
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Les secrets que les professionnels utilisent pour élever leurs enfants! Avec des décennies de stratégies éprouvées, cet ebook vous montrera le moyen le plus rapide et le plus efficace de devenir le meilleur parent possible. Vous apprendrez comment devenir le parent le plus performant en aussi peu que quelques semaines.
Vous créerez un lien et une confiance avec vos enfants comme jamais auparavant grâce à des techniques faciles à réaliser,...
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What's a woman to do when she's facing menopause, toddlers, and elder care all at the same time? Women who have "been there and done that" provide some insight in Midlife Motherhood. Offering humor, warmth, and frankness, this is a handholding guide for the uninitiated.
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· Common fears and concerns: from Down's syndrome to being too old
· Fertility challenges and what to physically expect from pregnancy
· How to juggle...
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Practical, upbeat, humorous—yet realistic—help for new mothers
Elizabeth Wright became aware of the need for this book shortly after giving birth to her first child. Faced with the reality of having a baby in her home, she started frantically reading through the standard works on childraising. She was surprised to learn that while these books provide a wealth of information on a baby’s development and growth, they do precious little to help...
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A visual step-by-step guide to successful breastfeeding. Authoritative advice for overcoming every nursing challenge!
Breastfeeding is one of the best ways to get your baby off to healthy start in life. However, nursing successfully over the long haul requires knowledge, support, and practical information and techniques. Nationally recognized breastfeeding and baby care expert Robin Elise Weiss, L.C.C.E. provides the most up-to-date information on...
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This book is written and dedicated to both working and stay at home moms, whose lives have reached a plateau because of the monotony of their daily routine.
If you're a mom, you know what I mean. You get up, make breakfast, lunches, drive the kids to school, shop, cook, clean, pick up the kids, take them to dance lessons, piano lessons, soccer practice and countless other daily, but necessary chores. At the end of the day you make dinner for the...
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Writing has marked Fr. Greg Udo Njoku, CSSp's life from his infant classes. He always thrilled his schoolmates in the morning assembly with recitals of little sonnets, dirges, poems, and epic rhymes.
For his secondary school, he attended the renowned Kings College in Lagos, Nigeria, a model school founded by British colonizers in 1909 and named after King's College in Oxford, London, comparable to Harvard University in America (see book 12).
Father...
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