Parenting Baby

The second book in our Mommy MD Guides book series, The Mommy MD Guide to Your Baby's First Year, is filled with tips that doctors who are also mothers use for their own families during their babies' first years. To create it, we spoke with more than 60 doctors who are also mothers; we call them Mommy MD Guides.

Welcome to the first year of fatherhood, new dad—a time filled with joy, sleepless nights, and a few moments of asking yourself, "What the heck am I doing?" Fear not, because "You Will Rock As a Dad!: The Expert Guide to Your Baby’s First Year and Everything New Fathers Need to Know” is here to steer you through this whirlwind of poop diapers, first smiles, and precious milestones.

The early years with baby and toddler will never be seamless but they shouldn't leave you gasping for air either. Less struggle and more joy in your first years as mom starts here. It's all solid advice. Sleep while the baby is sleeping. The dishes can wait. They grow up so fast. This too, shall pass. These clichés hint at a universal truth: Being a first-time mom is hard. You don't need to be told "it's just a season." You need a clear view of early motherhood and tools to help.

Teaching children to have loving thoughts and a positive attitude should begin from the day they are born. Young children may not recall the exact details of the things that happened during their early childhood years, but exposing them to joyful moments will leave a positive impact. Sharing some meaningful, loving, and happy moments can help your child develop into a person with a favorable personality.

Jule Kucera spent her childhood in a fearful orbit around her alcoholic, bipolar father. In her 30s, she married a charming narcissist who began disappearing on their honeymoon. When she divorced him, he stalked her.

After Rachel and Matthew had their first child, they had a couple of fights. Well, okay, more than a couple - they fought for over three years. They fought about schedules. They fought about bad habits. They even fought about the lawn mower. And besides actually having their child, it was the best thing that could've happened. Chronicling their greatest hits, from the great birth control debate to the divorce joke showdown, Fights You'll Have After Having a Baby is a postpartum story with hope.

Hedvig Montgomery begleitet uns in diesem Hörbuch bei den ersten Schritten unseres Babys und führt uns durch die verschiedenen Entwicklungsphasen: Wie erschaffen wir einen geschützten Raum für uns und unser Kind? Was ist wirklich unsere wichtigste Aufgabe als Eltern während der ersten zwei Jahre? Die erfolgreiche Familientherapeutin gibt uns die Werkzeuge und das Wissen an die Hand, die wir benötigen, um uns sicher und kompetent in diesen innigen und turbulenten ersten 24 Lebensmonaten unseres Kindes zu fühlen.

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes...Yikes! Thicke, the unforgettable dad on Growing Pains and an honorary Father of the Year in real life, provides a guideline for pregnanthood from a man's perspective in this 2000 Audie Award-winning presentation.

The New Mom's Guide to Your Body After Baby helps you navigate the bewildering world of breastfeeding, resuming sexual activity, and finding something - anything - in your closet that will fit. It also shows you how to weather the emotional storms that inevitably follow having a baby. With the insights in this audiobook you will be on your way to celebrating the new you in no time. You can do this! The New Mom's Guides are here to help.

It can seem like your baby needs so much gear and so many toys! But when it comes to their health and development, less is more. In Retro Baby, pediatric occupational therapist and child development specialist Anne H. Zachry, PhD, OTR/L, shows you how bouncers, swings, and other baby holders, as well as electronic toys and screen time, can hinder your baby's development and delay milestones. Retro Baby will help you cultivate a back-to-basics parenting approach.

Now in an updated fourth edition Sue Doherty, anthropologist and author of the pioneering, practical book, Kinergetics: Dancing with Your Baby (1994), offers must-have cutting-edge research, advice, and insight. A groundbreaking look into the art and science of song, dance, and melodies - and their profoundly nurturing, therapeutic, and developmental effects for infants and caregivers. It is an unprecedented, eye-opening investigation into our evolutionary instinct to rock a baby in our arms.

For new moms and new additions to the family. Share and reflect on how your baby moves. We are building caring families, helping children learn about feelings, emotions, culture, and identity.

Jesse-Ray Lewis, 19, enters a West Virginia "safe house" with few possessions beyond the kerchiefs that identify him as a gang member. An aged-out foster child, he lands in Bluefield, where a charity gives him food. What follows is the personal, dramatic story of two people who intervene in the life of a homeless, drug-abusing teen with a background of violence and neglect.

Seien Sie bestens vorbereitet auf Schwangerschaft, Geburt & Wochenbett. Dies ist der ideale Begleiter für Ihre Schwangerschaft, die Geburt und die erste Zeit mit Ihrem Baby. Möchten Sie sich optimal auf die Schwangerschaft vorbereiten, damit es Ihnen und Ihrem Baby an nichts fehlt? Anhand der großen Auswahl an Fakten zum Thema „Geburt und Schwangerschaft“ in diesem liebevoll gesprochenen Hörbuch werden Sie in der Lage sein, sich eine eigene Meinung zu bilden.

50 Things to Know About Traveling with a Baby offers a practical approach to help you learn what you need to know to travel with your little one. Based on knowledge from the world's leading experts, you will learn how to prepare yourself for a vacation or trip with your baby. You'll discover new ways of helping your baby be comfortable in new environments while also learning about how to pinpoint and meet your baby's needs while traveling.

Going travelling with a little one is always a challenging task, but if you're planning on a little getaway in an RV, then this guide was made for you. Road trips with infants and babies require a lot more planning, but with this book, the hard work is done for you.

100 Promises to My Baby is a lyrical ode to maternal love and a universal expression of every mother's hopes and dreams for her child.

You would think that after 16 years of attempted co-parenting, even the worst situations would be better. How is it that most other single moms in your life have managed to make it through the trenches? Yet, here you are still dealing with "Daddy Deadbeat". Over the years, you've done all you can to create a functional co-parenting situation and a sense of balanced love and stability for your child. Still, you can't seem to win from losing.

Bringing home baby can be one of the scariest days in a new parent's life. A truly helpful how-to, Blythe Lipman's guide to caring for babies is the perfect resource for first-time parents who wish their new baby came with an instruction manual. Lipman has devoted her life to the gentle art of infant care and offers wise and witty practical advice in this parent-tested, expert-approved book. Filled with invaluable information new parents really need, Lipman's guide includes plenty of true-life stories and guidance.

Are you planning for or expecting a newcomer in your family? Are you raising young children and could use every bit of advice you can get? "No one said it would be easy, but it would be worth it." The maxim that applies in many cases is so true here. Here’s a book chock-full of tips and ideas to help you not just understand the process of parenting but enjoy it. Do you want to turn your everyday parenting challenges into a fulfilling experience? This book is for you. While written mainly for parents with young kids, parents of tweens and teens would also benefit from the book.