All Childbirth and Parenting Books
- Moving with Kids
- 25 Ways to Ease Your Family’s Transition to a New Home
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- By Lori Collins Burgan
- Paperback, $9.95
- Hardcover, $19.95
- The only up-to-date book of its kind on the market, Moving with Kids provides parents with 25 practical and inspiring tips to help them ease their children’s transition and make the move a positive experience. Themes include giving kids a sense of control and involvement in the move, making the physical move less stressful, and creating a sense of belonging in their new home.
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- Nine Months and a Day
- A Pregnancy and Birth Companion
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- By Adrienne B. Lieberman, Dr. Linda Hughey Holt
- Paperback, $10.95
- This concise yet thorough guide to pregnancy and delivery is written by a doctor and a childbirth educator in a straightforward, practical, and informative style. It includes all the essential information a mother-to-be will want at her fingertips.
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- Nursing Mother, Working Mother, Revised Edition
- The Essential Guide to Breastfeeding Your Baby Before and After You Return to Work
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- By Gale Pryor, Kathleen Huggins
- Paperback, $12.95
- This essential breastfeeding guide for mothers who work outside the home tells the special reasons working moms should breastfeed, how to get started nursing, how to combine breastfeeding and formula feeding, and how to deal with bosses and coworkers. Updates to the second edition include changes in the workplace laws that affect working mothers who breastfeed, new research on working moms and infant attachment, and new material by best-selling author Kathleen Huggins on breast pumps and pumping.
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- Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child
- From Your First Hours Together Through the Teen Years
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- By Patty Cogen
- Paperback, $14.95
- Hardcover, $26.95
- Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child guides adoptive parents—through a reassuring narrative tone and a remarkable depth of information—in promoting a child’s emotional and social adjustment, from the family’s first hours together through the teen years.
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- Smart Love
- The Compassionate Alternative to Discipline That Will Make You a Better Parent and Your Child a Better Person
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- By Martha Heineman and William J. Pieper
- Paperback, $15.95
- In the wise and friendly pages of Smart Love, the husband-and-wife team of Drs. Martha and William Pieper, experienced professionals and parents of five, show that putting children’s inner happiness first, rather than their outward behavior, is what will really make them better behaved and, in the long run, more responsible, confident, happy, and successful. With real-life examples, they help parents find the happy medium between “anything goes” and too-tough discipline.
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- The Birth Partner, Third Edition
- A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Doulas, and Other Labor Companions
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- By Penny Simkin
- Paperback, $16.95
- For almost two decades, The Birth Partner has been the definitive guide to helping a woman have a happy and healthy childbirth. The new edition has all of the information that dads, relatives, friends, and professional doulas (labor assistants) have come to rely on, as well as new information on non-drug pain relieving techniques; current medications, tests, technologies, and interventions and how, when, and why they are used; and the increasing rate of both first and repeat cesarean deliveries. It’s a must-have for every labor companion.
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- The Expectant Parents’ Companion
- Simplifying What to Do, Buy, or Borrow for an Easy Life with Baby
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- By Kathleen Huggins
- Paperback, $11.95
- Best-selling author Kathleen Huggins helps moms- and dads-to-be prioritize all of the practical things they need to do to prepare for baby’s arrival. In her trademark reassuring and helpful tone, Huggins offers advice on what to buy, what to borrow, what you don’t need, and what to do to create a safe and comfortable environment for baby. This is the only book expectant parents will need to navigate the dizzying array of products and choices available.
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- The Nursing Mother’s Guide to Weaning, Revised Edition
- How to Bring Breastfeeding to a Gentle Close, and How to Decide When the Time is Right
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- By Kathleen Huggins, Linda Ziedrich
- Paperback, $11.95
- For women who are considering weaning and wondering when or how to go about it, or trying to wean and encountering problems, this fully updated guide explores the hygienic, nutritional, and emotional concerns that make weaning from the breast such an important and often difficult transition. Written by Kathleen Huggins, the best-selling author of The Nursing Mother’s Companion, and respected editor Linda Ziedrich, The Nursing Mother’s Guide to Weaning is an indispensable resource for bringing breastfeeding to a gentle close.
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- The Preemie Parents’ Companion
- The Essential Guide to Caring for Your Premature Baby in the Hospital, at Home, and Through the First Years
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- By Susan L. Madden
- Paperback, $16.95
- Parents facing the frightening reality of caring for a prematurely born baby will find this comprehensive, day-by-day, month-by-month guide to be a reassuring and confidence-boosting resource. It contains advice on how to cope with medical complications, work with the healthcare team in the NICU, hold preemies, and meet the baby’s special feeding and nutritional needs. Madden also helps parents confidently care for their preemie at home and guides them through the first developmentally crucial years.
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- The VBAC Companion
- The Expectant Mother's Guide to Vaginal Birth After Cesarean
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- By Diana Korte
- Paperback, $17.95
- The VBAC Companion lays out the pros and cons of VBAC—vaginal birth after cesarean— and repeat cesarean delivery, and gives the reader who has had a cesarean the information she needs to assure a safe, satisfying birth experience the second time around. Diana Korte addresses the fears common among women facing VBAC and explains how to negotiate the maze of doctors, midwives, hospitals, HMOs, and insurers who may help or hinder a woman’s plans. Amid her own warm, practical, expert advice, Korte quotes the real-life stories, full of tough decisions and hard-won successes, of dozens of women who have made the VBAC choice.
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- Tough Questions
- Talking Straight with Your Kids about the Real World
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- By Sheila and Celia Kitzinger
- Paperback, $12.95
- In Tough Questions the Kitzingers strive to “provide a stimulus for parents to explore what they think and believe, and how they behave with their children.” The book covers all the “biggies” – sex, birth, death, lying, food, war, religion, obedience, friends, and prejudice – and provides parents the encouragement they need to respond to their children honestly and with the courage of their convictions.
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- Unbuttoned
- Women Open Up About the Pleasures, Pains, and Politics of Breastfeeding
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- By Dana Sullivan, Maureen Connolly
- Paperback, $12.95
- In Unbuttoned, 25 talented women writers take on a subject—breastfeeding—that is as simple and primal as it is complex and controversial. By turns funny, angry, sad, and joyous, their essays hold appeal for the many who have been both challenged and awed by the nursing experience. New mothers and moms-to-be will certainly find themselves relating to these personal stories, while experienced mothers and grandmothers will enjoy reminiscing about their own nursing experiences.
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- You and Your Newborn Baby
- A Guide to the First Months After Birth
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- By Linda Todd
- Paperback, $9.95
- You and Your Newborn Baby is a practical and sensitive guide to the mother’s physical and emotional recovery after birth; to infant care, including feeding, bathing, and diapering; and to the baby’s early development. It offers advice on breastfeeding vs. bottlefeeding, on postpartum depression, on the special needs and roles of fathers, siblings, grandparents, and other loved ones, and on many other topics, all in a warm and encouraging style.
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