Pregnancy Relationships

There's no wrong or right when it comes to feeding - it's what works for you and your baby, and this handy resource with chapters on feeding cues, length and frequency of feeds, positioning and attachment for breastfeeding, how to supplement if needed, pumping, bottle feeding and teat size, mixed feeding pros and cons, plus a truly comprehensive section dealing with challenges, all delivered in Olivia's imitable style, will make it a popular reference for all new parents.

Why, despite our state-of-the-art medical technology, does the United States have among the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the industrialized world? Why do pregnant women who are planning to breastfeed receive "free" samples of infant formula from American obstetricians? Why are American newborns given a vaccine at birth against hepatitis B, a sexually transmitted disease? The Business of Baby arms parents with the information they need to make informed decisions about their own health and the health of their infants.

Discover how to be the supportive, informed partner your family needs during pregnancy—without feeling lost or overwhelmed, even if it's your first time stepping into fatherhood.

When Jade decided to spend the summer with her aunt in California, she thought she knew what she was getting into. But nothing could have prepared her for Quentin. Jade hasn't been in suburbia long and even she knows her annoying (and annoyingly cute) next-door neighbor spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E. And when Quentin learns Jade plans to spend her first American summer hiding out reading books, he refuses to be ignored. Sneaking out, staying up, and even a midnight swim, Quentin is determined to give Jade days - and nights - worth remembering.

Nature teaches us that a balanced state is a fertile state; and in this audiobook Gerad Kite shows how 'balance' can be the secret to successful conception, even when all else has failed. In The Art of Baby-Making, he presents a unique, holistic approach to creating the right conditions for new life to take hold. His method combines the ancient wisdom of Chinese medicine with psychotherapy, drawing on his years of experience and effective practice.

Women today want to have it all; they not only want to have their own lives outside of the home and the workplace, but they want a healthy, stable relationship, to excel in their careers, and some also want to become mothers. This change in our cultural outlook, and the expansion of options for women, has led to record numbers of women deciding not to have children at all, to wait until later in life to get married, or to start trying to conceive a child.

Penguin presents the audio edition of Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan, written and read by Rebecca Schiller. Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan is a revolutionary new guide to pregnancy and childbirth that puts the power firmly in your hands. It won't tell you what fruit your baby resembles week by week, but it will cover the huge shifts happening in your relationships, body, work and emotional life right now, giving you practical tools, tips and real stories to help you make a plan that is uniquely yours yet flexible enough to accommodate whatever your pregnancy, birth and life throw at you.

The two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at 13 who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he’s placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets 12-year-old Jack, who narrates the account of the troubled, passionate teen who wants to find his baby at any cost. In this riveting novel, two boys discover the true meaning of family and the sacrifices it requires.

Written by a seasoned perinatal nurse and mom, this no-nonsense guide delivers clear, time-saving strategies tailored for busy Expectant Dads like you. Whether you're feeling lost or need practical advice, this audiobook is your ultimate roadmap to a fulfilling New Dad experience.

Lessons Learned from a First Time Mom’s Pregnancy, Unmedicated Birth, and Long-term Breastfeeding Experience offers you a balanced perspective from someone who has been through what you are on the verge of achieving. It's an effective introduction to the resources that will guide you in reaching your birthing and breastfeeding goals mixed with my experience in applying those resources.

Pregnancy is beautiful and natural! In this guidebook, we spend some time talking about the holistic approach and how it can do wonders for your journey into motherhood. The holistic approach is a way of thinking that allows women to go through their pregnancy in a natural and healthy way by making decisions which are aligned with mother earth, such as diet, medicine, supplementation, exercise, and much more

En este manual para las futuras madres se habla de los nueve meses de embarazo, el parto y el posparto desde la evidencia científica y, a la vez, con una perspectiva absolutamente respetuosa con el bebé y la mamá, escuchando sus necesidades, resolviendo dudas y abarcando todas las opciones sin tendencias, para dar tranquilidad, serenidad y confianza. Cada mujer debe escoger qué es lo mejor para ella y su bebé.

Cada vez son más las mujeres que buscan un cambio en la atención que reciben durante el embarazo y el parto. Este libro es un manual de información y divulgación en torno al embarazo, el parto y el puerperio en nuestro contexto actual. Una herramienta en la que encontrarás información veraz, objetiva y científica sobre todo este proceso vital, y que te ayudará a tomar el control y el protagonismo de tu embarazo con tus propias decisiones.

This lighthearted month-by-month instruction manual on the care and nurture of a pregnant wife - the main role of expectant dads - will handle all the important milestones and topics: what not to say during the three phases of labor, what to buy, how many and when, maintaining work-life balance, and maintaining work-life-wife balance.

Simple and practical advice to help new dads, and dads to be, stay involved in your child's life! From conception through the 9-month of pregnancy with your wife or partner this simplified and well-researched summary, Victor Shaw shares his knowledge and experience in a men-to-men-like approach!

A book sharing common, honest experiences of pregnancy, labour and the months after that aren't commonly shared! So many aspects of these phases aren't talked about despite most women experiencing them, so the author shares these details through her own personal stories, alongside a bit of "medicalish" reasoning behind why these things happen. The hope is to better prepare those embarking on this journey with a little entertainment and a laugh along the way.

The Pregnancy Massage audiobook will give you both the theoretical and practical knowledge you need to provide safe, relaxing, and beneficial prenatal massage to expectant mothers.

This audiobook is filled with 900+ tips that doctors, who are also mothers, used during their pregnancies and births. They're experts squared! To create this audiobook, we spoke with 60 doctors who are also mothers; we call them Mommy MD Guides. The 900+ reassuring, trusted, and often even humorous tips in this audiobook are presented in the Mommy MD Guides' own words, and each tip is clearly attributed to the doctor who lived it.

In this updated and expanded version of Isa Gucciardi’s acclaimed Return to the Great Mother, the listener is invited to rediscover the transformative feminine power at the heart of childbirth. Mothers, their partners, and birth professionals will learn how to tap into this ancient wellspring of power to create a birthing experience that is deeply intuitive and empowering.

Reena Montero has loved Sawyer LeGrande for as long as she can remember: as natural as breathing, as endless as time. But he's never seemed to notice that Reena even exists... until one day, impossibly, he does. Reena and Sawyer fall in messy, complicated love. But then Sawyer disappears from their humid Florida town without a word, leaving a devastated - and pregnant - Reena behind.