Pregnancy Relationships

Ghostbelly is Elizabeth Heineman’s personal account of a home birth that goes tragically wrong—ending in a stillbirth—and the harrowing process of grief and questioning that follows. It’s also Heineman’s unexpected tale of the loss of a newborn: before burial, she brings the baby home for overnight stays.

Many babies are fussy and spit up milk, and in recent years, it has become common for them to be diagnosed with reflux and medicated with antacids, thickeners, and acid suppressants. However, research tells us that reflux is normal in young babies and that many of the symptoms associated with it may in fact be misunderstood baby behaviors rather than clinical symptoms of gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GORD).

Liza was a healthy 34-year-old when she discovered she could not carry a baby. Like the one of every six women who hears this news, Liza and her husband, David, despaired that they would never be parents. They both had careers. Life would go on...in other ways.Then the unpredictable happened. Liza's cousin, Jennifer, offered to be the gestational carrier for Liza and David. This is the story of how two women and their husbands came to the incredible decision to put their faith, their lifelong friendship, and their hearts into the rigorous, uncharted and emotional science of creating new life.

Infertility affects about 15 percent of couples globally, yet somehow infertility and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) are taboo subjects, often hidden and un-talked about. 1000 Needles: How to Increase Your Odds and Take Control of Your IVF Journey removes the stigma with a touch of sass and an unapologetically honest voice, exploring one couple’s IVF challenges and discoveries in order to normalize the infertility conversation.

The key to success in your first year of fatherhood is also a key to success in life: keep it simple. This audiobook is a simple guide to what you really need to know during pregnancy and your baby’s first year.

What are positive affirmations? An affirmation is anything that you think or say. This means that even your negative thoughts and words are affirmations. People have become used to thinking negatively, thus resulting in negative experiences and situations. It is important to retrain the mind to think only of good and positive things, so that only positive would also come out of the mouth. This is how you will change your life. A positive affirmation will open a doorway to the positive changes in your life.

In Better Breastfeeding, Dr. Linda Dahl presents a new paradigm for breastfeeding based on diagnosing and treating mothers and babies using anatomy and physiology, offering a comprehensive overview of how breastfeeding works, why it fails, and what to do about it. Dr. Dahl takes you through the basics of breastfeeding in a week-by-week guide and explores solutions for little-understood difficulties like gape restriction and tongue tie, nipple and breast pain, issues with milk supply, or abnormal nursing behaviors.

Many families find themselves feeding their baby a combination of breast milk and formula - either by choice or through circumstance. In this book, you will find: how to choose, prepare, feed, and store formula, how to switch between at-breast feeding and topping up in ways which can help to reduce the chances of bottle preference, quick glance “how to combi-feed” sections for many scenarios, ranging from not wanting to breastfeed in public or to give Mum an occasional “night off” to regular daily bottles due to weight gain worries or long-term medical conditions, and more.

I love being a Spice Girl, but what I am proudest of is being a mum. Even though I had all the real-life girl power of the actual Spice Girls on speed-dial, my incredible partner and my mum, I had so many worries and questions I couldn't always ask out loud. What I really, really wanted was one easy-to-digest, honest book that would give me support without judgment - that might even make me chuckle occasionally.

Are you obsessed with your baby's sleep? Do you feel weak because you can't leave him to cry himself to sleep? Do you need to relax more and enjoy being a parent? Parenting expert Pinky McKay offers a natural, intuitive approach to solving your little ones' sleep problems and gives practical tips on how to understand your baby's tired cues, create a safe sleeping environment, gently settle babies and toddlers and feed infants to encourage sleep.

The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians covers everything you need to make the thrilling and challenging journey to motherhood: from choosing a donor to tracking fertility to signing the right papers on the dotted lines. Rachel Pepper's lively, easy-to-read guide is the first place to go for up-to-date information and sage advice on everything from sex in the sixth month to negotiating family roles. Why a second edition? When the acclaimed first edition appeared, the author's daughter was only a few months old. This new edition takes into account the parenting know-how Pepper has developed over the intervening years.

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.

Anxiety during pregnancy and postpartum is much more common than many people know, and yet there are so few resources available to struggling new moms. The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook offers powerful strategies grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you control your worry, panic, and anxiety.

From a middle-school dropout and single teen mom turned educator, author, and pro-family advocate, comes a unique and candid memoir about a woman who was pregnant at 16 and willingly chose to have her baby. Parenthood Unplanned provides an in-depth perspective of both the raw and sobering truth - as well as the humor, joy, and adventure - of an unexpected pregnancy. Written through a Christian lens, Sarah shares practical, inspiring, and honest advice for young parents and their families facing the unexpected.

Ein Baby zu bekommen ist aufregend und schön. Viele neue Fragen wollen beantwortet werden: Was braucht unser Kind für eine gesunde Entwicklung? Wie erkennen wir seine Bedürfnisse? Was brauchen wir Eltern? Und vor allem: Was brauchen wir nicht? "Baby.leicht" zeigt einen gelassenen und feinfühligen Weg für die ersten 12 Monate. Liebevoll und sachkundig begleiten die beiden erfahrenen Hebammen Kareen Dannhauer und Anja Constance Gaca frisch gebackene Eltern und sorgen durch Konzentration auf das Wesentliche für mehr Zeit und Gelassenheit.

You are about to become a father and you want to be prepared for what's to come. You also want to support your partner through everything. Raising a baby comes with a lot of surprises. The truth is, most parents just rush it. But expecting your first child is a well-researched terrain for which there are many successful tips and strategies.

Whether you want practical guidance for an unassisted birth or simply want to deepen your understanding of natural birth in general, this book is the how-to manual you've been waiting for. Introducing the idea of a Brave New Birth—any birth where the mother and baby are free to birth by instinct and are given the privacy and safety necessary for the body and baby to birth themselves, without interference, intervention, or being watched/measured/observed.

Your life is about to change. There's no use beating around the bush, or attempting to diminish what's to come. You're about to become the caretaker of another human! You have a choice to make. Will you, the father, be involved in the pregnancy? Will you become educated so you can be a pillar of support for your partner during childbirth? Your decision could change everything. How you connect with your partner. The joy you feel while becoming a dad. The peace in your home. Your financial well-being. How confident you are as a father.

In this harrowing and intimate memoir, Harriet Alida Lye explores how, at just 15 years old, she was diagnosed with a form of leukemia called Natural Killer, named "the rarest and worst malignancy". The average survival time of patients with this diagnosis is 58 days. There are no known survivors. There were no known survivors. Fifteen years after Harriet's diagnosis, she became pregnant, despite having been told that her chemotherapy treatment would likely make conception impossible. To be a mother is to make a death, as death is bound up in life.

Whether you are embarking on the journey of pregnancy, or you have already found yourself pregnant, then this is the book for you! Congratulations! Parenthood is one of the most exciting phases of life you will encounter. But there are also so many things to be aware of.