Pregnancy & Parenthood

'A brilliant resource for navigating the teen years' Stella O'MalleyTeenagers: The Evidence Base deftly summarises decades of research and expert knowledge to offer parents and other interested adults a roadmap to adolescence. It weaves together insights from social and experimental psychology, neuroscience, family systems and adolescent development, among other fields, to equip readers with a clear understanding of what it means to be a teenager today, how they develop, the hazard points and opportunities, and how best to support them as they navigate their labyrinthine and very personal route to adulthood. This practical, engaging guide is an essential purchase for any adult wanting to understand the turbulence, creativity and brilliance of the teenage years.

Are you finding it challenging to get your child to eat a variety of foods, especially fruits and vegetables? Is mealtime often a battle? If so, this book is your solution. Inside, you'll find creative snack and meal ideas that cleverly incorporate hidden fruits and vegetables, ensuring your child enjoys a diverse and nutritious diet.

A practical survival guide to help parents deal with common toddler issues from TV's most sympathetic and non-judgemental Nanny, Laura Amies – who has seen it all before!Hilarious real-life stories and practical tips from TV’s Nanny Amies – who has seen it all before! Is your toddler eating strange foods, refusing to sleep, throwing tantrums and addicted to their screen? You’re not alone, and Nanny Amies is here to help.Laura Amies – the expert toddler tamer from the TV show Toddlers Behaving (Very) Badly – shares her essential toolkit of tried-and-tested techniques for dealing with the most common sticky situations she’s encountered over her 25-year career.In her warm and funny yet no-nonsense style, Nanny Amies covers all the things keeping you awake at night, plus the effects that different parenting styles can have. Read on to discover the dummy fairy, six methods for potty training, tips for managing emotions (yours too!) and what to do in an emergency.Perfect for tired parents in need of a laugh who are looking for supportive, practical advice from a private nanny – for a fraction of the cost.

Got endometriosis? You should have a baby!Painful post-birth prolapse? Well, you had a baby. Let down by doctors? Try our wellness candle!Episiotomy scar? Why not trim your labia too?It's a stitch-up. And we demand better. As Emma was being sewn up following the birth of her second child, the midwife paused, looked up and said the worst thing anyone has ever said to her: 'Your vagina's fallen out.'After receiving a vague diagnosis of 'prolapse', she spent the next two years being shunted between specialists. The solutions on offer ranged from kegels to hysterectomy and even labia trimming. Some doctors simply shrugged and said there was nothing they could do. Women around her spoke of similar experiences: mothers told that pain was the price of parenthood; trans women blamed for 'wanting a vagina in the first place'; Black women disbelieved and dismissed; intersex people lied to by their doctors. The mesh scandal that injured thousands. The 'love doctor' who performed nonconsensual vaginal surgeries. Over and over again, Emma heard stories of women in pain, bleeding, dying, failed by the professionals who were supposed to help them. Medical misogyny kills, and leaves many more in agony, unable to live full lives. The Stitch-Up tells their stories, and calls for better research, healthcare options, language and treatment, arguing that being female should never be a death sentence.

We read the parenting books. We sign our kids up for the activities. We cheer from the sidelines. And then... they get ready to leave. We know it's coming (and sometimes, when things are really rough, we look forward to it!). But when your kids are on their way to being functional adults, what does it mean for your identity as mom? The Last Parenting Book You'll Ever Read is your guide to the last stage of "active" parenting, as your teenagers prepare to step into the world and you prepare to step back into yourself. Author Meagan Francis has been blogging and podcasting about motherhood for more than 25 years, going from five kids under her roof to just two. By offering midlife mothers a roadmap to reinventing their relationships with themselves, their kids, and the world around them, Francis helps readers to harness some of the mothering energy they've been directing toward their children and redirect toward nurturing themselves in order to use this unique life stage as an opportunity for personal transformation.From the co-host of the hit podcast The Mom Hour, The Last Parenting Book You'll Ever Read is your guide to the last stage of "active" parenting as your teenagers prepare to step into the world and you prepare to step back into yourself, for moms getting ready to launch their almost-adult kids and enter the empty nesting stage of their lives.

This revised and updated edition of CoramBAAF''s popular handbook introduces grandparents-to-be and other relatives to information about adoption today. It offers facts about the children needing adoption, processes and procedures and, most importantly, discusses how the wider family can support and be involved in building a family through adoption. Quotes and snippets from family stories add an immediacy to this accessible and informative guide, which also includes contributions from grandparents. Essential reading for any family considering adoption!

The Muslim mum is the most fertile political symbol of our times – heralded as both the solution and cause to many of the issues that erroneously come to define Muslim communities in our now globalised world. Muslim mums who are continuously spoken down to, at, or for, and very rarely conversed with in a language that sees and understands us beneath the suffocating extraneous layers of media sensationalism and political discourse. In the first of its kind, A Cool Girl’s Guide to Being a Muslim Mum looks at the blessed and fraught experience of mothering when Muslim in contemporary political times. Amidst the textures of an accelerating digital age, ubiquitous Islamophobia and an increasingly commercialised cultural climate that impacts us in ways obvious and untold.

At its core, Home Sweet Home is about relationships: the power it has over one’s sense of peace and self and how knowing one’s rights and duties can empower one to confidently set boundaries. Most importantly, it discusses issues and conflicts that may exist within the home and how to ensure they are not mismanaged and handled disproportionately. It emphasizes the need to reflect and ponder over the origins of conflict and aims to make its readers more cognizant of the Islamic principles related to every relationship and interaction. In particular, there is a focus on the positive impact faith can have on smoothing out many common problems. This is underpinned by psychological concepts, the Qur’an and Hadith literature. By taking into account the various issues faced by many and the different types of relationships, a holistic understanding can be crucially obtained. Through the insights provided by this book, there is hope that it leads to better and more confident decisions being taken in the home so that family members can thrive together and support each other.

Encourage and support your baby's natural development with this collection of daily activities that promote safe, fun and effective play. This informative guide explains the context and science behind development at key stages, how to "play" the activity, and how each one can help your little one reach motor, sensory and communication milestones.

This is a book about learning to love your teenagers and count them as a blessing. Rachel Kelly, successfully navigated this challenging stage with her five children and shares the lessons learned so other parents may benefit from this new and inspiring perspective.

A week-by-week pregnancy and birthing guide from renowned Hollywood doula Carson Meyer—brimming with empowering advice to help expectant mothers care for their bodies, nurture their babies, and make confident decisions throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. In this groundbreaking pregnancy book, Carson Meyer draws on her experience as a birth doula helping hundreds of families welcome their babies into the world. With a holistic focus on wellness, health, and spirituality, Growing Together offers birthing parents an empowering approach to pregnancy and childbirth that is too often missing in today’s standard care. This is a weekly guide to caring for and honoring your body and your baby through every phase of the life-changing experience of becoming a parent—from the first positive pregnancy test through the fourth trimester. Featuring easy-to-follow guidance and illuminating information to help you feel informed, confident, and calm, the content includes: Enriching wisdom from professionals Simple-to-follow activities and rituals Expert tips for every birth environment Nourishing recipes to help you feel grounded in your body and connected to your child And much more  Growing Together is an invaluable resource and a comprehensive must-have handbook for every expecting parent.DOULA EXPERTISE: An experienced doula who treats birth as an empowering process, Carson Meyer brings a unique and informed perspective to this pregnancy guide. In addition to her one-on-one work, she offers courses on doula training, nutrition counseling, and a “Growing Together Circle," an all-in-one birth prep course and community circle for expecting parents. MODERN PREGNANCY & PARENTING BOOK: This comprehensive guide incorporates testimonials, research, and science with a more spirit-centered and relaxed approach. A unique companion to typical bestselling pregnancy books, Growing Together offers a resource for expecting parents to turn to from conception through the first one hundred days after birth to access a full spectrum of user-friendly holistic resources and information. PREGNANCY GIFT: An outstanding pregnancy planner for first-time moms or parents navigating new additions to the family, this nurturing guidebook makes an excellent self-purchase or present for pregnancy announcement or baby shower celebrations.Perfect for: Expecting parents, first-time mothers, or experienced moms eager for a new approach to pregnancy and childbirth Gift-giving to expecting wives, partners, sisters, granddaughters, coworkers, friends, or couples Readers of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn; Like a Mother; Bumpin’: The Modern Guide to Pregnancy; The Fourth Trimester; and the What to Expect When You’re Expecting series

Let's be real: Caring for a baby can be exhaustingly tedious. Enter Vered Benhorin, musician, therapist, and mother of three. In What Do I Do with My Baby All Day?, Benhorin builds on the foundations of attachment theory and blends practical tools with research to teach parents how to develop a more gratifying relationship with their baby. With her guidance, parents will step into the present with their baby and truly enjoy one another using her easy, guided activities. From a baby buddha massage to babble boost (singing nonsense words), small "bubble moments" throughout the day provide a shared experience between parent and child that benefits both. These moments also have practical applications, like soothing the baby when they're fussy, making bedtime more effective, strengthening routines, and increasing communication and language. This book is a must-have for new parents everywhere.

A choose-your-own-adventure-style gift book to combat mom guilt from social worker Rebecca Fox StarrMotherhood is a constant barrage of choices. Bottle or breast? Alone time or playtime? And how much is too much screentime? No matter the choice we make, mothers often end up feeling guilty, as if we are never doing enough. But no more! In this choose-your-own-adventure style guide, social worker Rebecca Fox Starr guides moms through the apocalyptic newborn phase, the jungle of toddlerhood, and the dead ends and booby traps of raising teens with one simple message: You are doing a great job. You are more than enough. The perfect gift for mothers who are doing their best every day, Am I Doing This Right? is the comforting affirmation we need to show ourselves some compassion and appreciate the choices we make each day for the families we love.

A beautiful illustrated collection of art and musings that highlights the simple joys of caregiving from artist and social media star Riley Sheehey Multimedia artist Riley Sheehey brings together a charming collection of 100 illustrations of the sweet and often unobserved moments between children and their caregivers. These aren't the typical milestones we tend to capture in photos but rather the subtle moments of everyday life that make lasting memories like dancing in the kitchen, playing peek-a-boo, or a taking a sunny nap at the beach. Originally inspired by Delft tiles, the 400+-year-old blue and white pottery from the Netherlands, Riley started sharing her illustrations on her Instagram account, resonating with thousands of mothers, nannies, teachers, and anyone who has experienced the joys of caring for little ones. Simple, spare captions allow space for the reader to reflect on their own memories or anticipate experiences to come with their loved ones, and ultimately, pause and appreciate more of these moments as they're happening.

From Mary Catherine Starr, the artist behind the @momlife_comics Instagram account celebrated by moms all over the world, this deeply funny illustrated memoir captures the chaos, joy, exhaustion, guilt, well-intentioned-but-clueless partners, and infinite loads of laundry that come with being a mom.

Fans of Dr. Jen Gunter and Emily Nagoski will love this science-based, practical, and empowering guide to your uterus.It gives life to humankind, billions of people have one, and yet the uterus is still mysterious to many. And talking about it can feel taboo. But when you don’t talk about it, you don’t discover what’s normal and what’s not—or what questions to ask at the doctor’s office. The reality? This versatile, pear-shaped organ is worthy of everyone’s attention. In Pear-Shaped, a gynecologist and a science communicator join forces to tell the life story of your uterus.Did you know that the uterus is a muscle? Or that it can stretch to the size of a watermelon? In Pear-Shaped, the authors reveal surprising facts about the uterus, alongside practical, helpful information including:A detailed anatomy of the uterus with illustrations.An overview of its many functions.Complications that can impact fertility, childbearing, birth, and menstruation.Tips for advocating for yourself at the doctor’s office.Descriptions and images of what the uterus looks like (including the fact that it doesn’t always look the same for everyone).Real case studies from the author’s gynecological practice.Information about menstruation, contraception, abortion, pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause.As Pear-Shaped shows, the uterus is truly fascinating. But it also can be a source of serious concern for many. Pear-Shaped also discusses various problems and diseases that arise in the uterus—including endometriosis, PCOS, fibroids, and unwanted pregnancy—and how everyday people work with their doctors to find a solution that works for them.

Originally published in 1986, this book's focal point is a field study which asks whether the social childrearing context of daycare transmits to young children values different from those within America's dominant value tradition of individualism.

An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America--the cesarean section--and an exposé on the disturbing state of maternal medical careWhen Rachel Somerstein had an unplanned C-section with her first child, the experience was anything but the "routine" operation her doctor described. A series of errors by her clinicians led to a real-life nightmare: surgery without anesthesia. The ensuing mental and physical complications left her traumatized and desperate for answers about how things could have gone so wrong.In the United States, one in three babies is born via C-section, a rate that has grown exponentially over the past fifty years. And while in most cases the procedure is "safe," it is not without significant, sometimes life-changing consequences, with its burdens falling disproportionately on people of color. Mothers are often left to navigate these complications alone, with C-sections all but invisible in popular culture, pregnancy guides, and even standard medical advice.In Invisible Labor, Somerstein weaves personal narrative and investigative journalism with medical, social, and cultural history to reveal the operation's surprising evolution, from its days being practiced on enslaved women to the ways modern medical technology promotes its overuse. And she uncovers the current-day failures of the medical system, showing how pregnant people's pain and agency is often disregarded by physicians who, motivated by fear of litigation or a hospital's commitment to efficiency, make consequential and deeply personal decisions on behalf of their patients. Candid, raw, and illuminating, Invisible Labor lifts the veil on C-sections so that mothers can navigate future pregnancies and births with more knowledge about surgical birth's risks, benefits, and alternatives--a corrective to the ongoing curtailment of reproductive rights. Writing with deep feeling and authority, Somerstein offers support and camaraderie to others who have had difficult or traumatic birth experiences, as well as hope for new forms of reproductive justice.

Nighttime for many new parents in the United States is fraught with the intense challenges of learning to breastfeed and helping their babies sleep so they can get rest themselves. Through careful ethnographic study of the dilemmas raised by nighttime breastfeeding, and their examination in the context of anthropological, historical, and feminist studies, this volume unravels the cultural tensions that underlie these difficulties. As parents negotiate these dilemmas, they not only confront conflicting medical guidelines about breastfeeding and solitary infant sleep, but also larger questions about cultural and moral expectations for children and parents, and their relationship with one another.

An international bestseller, How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way adapts Montessori teachings for easy use at home.Packed with Montessori-based preschool activities and educational games that build confidence and independence through active learning, this authoritative illustrated guide helps raise self-reliant and creative children. Celebrate physical and intellectual milestones from birth to age six with activity checklists, and encourage development through proven child-centred teaching methods.This edition has been updated to include the latest child development research, advice about screen time in the digital age and a contemporary approach to cultural education.How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way shows parents how to bring the teachings of Montessori into their home to create a safe, nurturing environment for their children with clear and concise instruction.

Adoption Now covers the law, regulations, standards and guidance relating to adoption today, covering all stages of the process and related information - in easily digested bite-sized chunks. This new edition has been fully revised and updated to draw together all current legislation, including recent changes and new initiatives. Small enough to carry round in a handbag or briefcase, it provides instant access to necessary information whenever needed. With all essential knowledge and data brought together in such a compact format, the busy practitioner and professional will find this little compendium an invaluable quick reference guide and immense timesaver.

This 312-page book features 100 contributors representing various races and ethnic backgrounds, genders, abilities, socio-economic backgrounds, and experiences, each lending their wisdom and insight on parenthood.This book can not tell you how to raise your baby, because no one can tell you how to do that. This book is meant to be a supplemental guide to your own inner voice, your gut, and the relationship you build with your baby as they grow. It's meant to be a reminder that the parenting community is huge, and no matter what those parents look like or where they come from, we all share a united goal—to raise happy, thriving humans.With over 100 contributors of varied backgrounds, nationalities, and parenting experiences, this book is full of stories and advice for parents who are navigating the first year of parenthood. The authors in this book are not writers, and most of them are not parenting or childhood development experts. They are simply people who have raised babies and learned something valuable along the way—from breastfeeding, diaper bags, or screen time, to caring for a sick baby, dealing with postpartum depression, or navigating parenthood after a separation or divorce. Whether you read this book cover to cover or jump around to what matters most in that moment, take a deep breath and remember you are not alone and you've got this.

This set contains the professional guide The Psychology of Starting School alongside the storybook How I Feel About My School.