Parenting Baby

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.

When Sara Zaske moved from Oregon to Berlin with her husband and toddler, she knew the transition would be challenging, especially when she became pregnant with her second child. She was surprised to discover that German parents give their children a great deal of freedom - much more than Americans. In Berlin, kids walk to school by themselves, ride the subway alone, cut food with sharp knives, and even play with fire. German parents did not share her fears, and their children were thriving.

The first three trimesters (and the fourth - those blurry newborn days) are for the baby, but the fifth trimester is when the working mom is born. No matter what the job or how you define work, you're going to have a lot of questions. When will I go back? How should I manage that initial "I want to quit" attack? Flex time or full time? How can I achieve 50/50 at home with my partner? What's the best option for childcare? Is it possible to look like I slept for eight hours instead of three? And why is there never a convenient space to pump?

The ultimate guide for developing and maintaining a safe and secure relationship as you learn how to navigate life after having children. Learn to improve your communication, strengthen your connection, and manage common postpartum challenges as a team.

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.

In Baby Making for Everybody, queer millennial midwives Ray Rachlin and Marea Goodman use their professional expertise to demystify the dizzying process of pursuing parenthood as queer and solo people, offering detailed, gender-affirming, body-positive advice. The result is a much-needed compassionate step-by-step guide for every aspect of the complicated, messy, and glorious process of building a family.

Eating is an innate skill that has been overcomplicated by marketing schemes and a dieting culture. It’s time to leave the dieting culture behind for the whole family. It starts with the baby’s first bite! When babies show signs of readiness for solid foods, they can eat almost everything the family eats and become healthy, happy eaters in the process. By honoring self-regulation (also an innate skill) and focusing on a whole-food foundation, we can foster healthier children, parents, and families.

An indispensable guide to the revolutionary advances in pregnancy and childbirth. After decades of research into how babies develop in the womb, Susan J. Fisher, PhD, shares her expert advice to empower expecting parents. Complete with helpful illustrations, practical tips, and the essential questions to ask health-care providers, here is everything you need to take charge of your health and your baby’s.

This audiobook is the answer to any infant sleep problems. If you want your baby to nap longer, or don’t know how to stop rocking, or you’re looking for full sleep-training program - Hold with Love from How to Teach a Baby to Fall Asleep alone is the only method you need! It is smooth and fast approach showing how to teach your baby to fall sleep alone. Remarkably gentle for the baby and easy to follow for the parent. Thanks to the step-by-step narration, this method for teaching baby self-soothing is so easy, you will undoubtedly succeed.

In diesem Buch erfährst du nicht nur alles, was während der Kinderwunschzeit, Schwangerschaft, Geburt und in dem ersten Jahr mit deinem Baby wichtig ist, sondern auch die Themen Beruf, Selbstständigkeit, Paarbeziehung, Sexualleben während und nach der Schwangerschaft werden ausführlich besprochen. Außerdem wird der Umgang mit Verwandten und Freunden thematisiert.

Are you excited about your baby’s arrival, but you’re not confident that you can take care of a mini-human? Get rid of your doubts and fears—discover how to nurture your baby in their first 12 months to help them grow healthy and strong! The methods provided in this guide are science-based, practical, and will give you the confidence you need to raise your baby like the super-dad you are meant to become.

It's about time we made motherhood more diverse.... When Candice fell pregnant and stepped into the motherhood playing field, she found her experience bore little resemblance to the glossy magazine photos of women in horizontal stripe tops and the pinned discussions on Mumsnet about what pushchair to buy. Leafing through the piles of prenatal paraphernalia, she found herself wondering: "Where are all the black mothers?".

Feel tired of being woken up in the middle of the night by your baby's crying? Tired of having to change your toddler's diaper for the thousandth time? Sick of having to put up with embarrassing public displays by your toddler whenever you go out? If yes, then keep reading. There are few major milestones in the life of a child that is more challenging than the toddler phase. Throwing food on the floor, irregular sleep patterns, horrible toilet manners, and cranky behaviors are some of the few trials of raising a toddler. It's enough to drive a hapless parent insane.

Are you finding it hard to tell whether you’re excited or just scared pants-less? Of course you’re excited, but still, what the heck are you supposed to do now? Relax, and take a deep breath - all dads have been in your same shoes once before. Finding out that you’re going to be a dad is one of the most rewarding moments in life, but yes, it certainly comes with a lot of questions and concerns.

In The New Rules of Pregnancy, two leading OB-GYNs guide you, the modern pregnant woman, through all aspects of pregnant life in an easy-to-digest, compassionate, and motivating way. Instead of a detailed week-by-week look at your baby’s development, it’s all about you and how to help your pregnancy go as smoothly as possible.

Is your partner really on the same page about this baby? When you are struggling to get pregnant and your partner is dragging their feet to do their part or bitterly complains about the process, this question haunts you. You worry they might change their mind about having a baby. You wonder if the stress in your relationship is the reason you aren’t getting pregnant. You even fear you might end up alone! What if you could learn the secret to trading those fears for the unshakable confidence that your relationship is 100 percent ready for this baby - with zero regret?

If your deepest desire is to become a mother, or become a mother again, join family and child therapist Shannon Rios Paulsen, MS LMFT and all the other mothers and their babies on this 30-day journey. Shannon is here to tell you the perfect time has come for you to prepare to welcome a new soul into your life. In Manifesting Baby, Shannon shares her own fertility and adoption journey while helping to open the aspiring mother’s mind, spirit, and body to a baby. Daily exercises and reflections allow you to bring mindfulness, love, and peace to the fertility process.

As a new dad, you'll learn to take care of your newborn while ensuring your partner's recovery. Discover how to balance self-care with your new responsibilities and gain practical tools and advice to excel in your role as a father. Your journey into fatherhood begins long before childbirth, with the effort and care you invest in your partner's well-being.

As a first-time parent, Kyl Myers had one aspect dialed in from the start: not being beholden to the boy-girl binary, disparities, or stereotypes from the day a child is born. With no wish to eliminate gender but rather gender discrimination, Kyl and her husband, Brent, ventured off on a parenting path less traveled. Raising a confident, compassionate, and self-aware person was all that mattered.

Babies Don’t Talk gives you a concrete foundation to be a great dad for life, not just nine months, by covering what matters most: you, your relationship, your family, and your baby.