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"Numerous studies show that breast milk plays an important role in a baby's development and overall health, but for many women, breastfeeding can be difficult. In Breastfeeding Solutions, breastfeeding expert and bestselling coauthor of Breastfeeding Made Simple, Nancy Mohrbacher, provides mothers with the latest solutions to common breastfeeding challenges--including pain, pumping, and weaning--in a quick, easy-to-use format"--
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For more than 40 years, mothers have depended on the wisdom and warmth of Nursing Your Baby. Now authors Karen Pryor and her daughter Gale Pryor have revised and updated their classic guide for today's generation of women. New information includes: Up-to-date studies on health benefits for breastfed infants and breastfeeding mothers. Tips for getting the best start on breastfeeding during the first hours, weeks, and months after birth. Breastfeeding...
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Aclamamos "¡Lactancia, sí!" en las redes sociales y con nuestras amigas con orgullo feminista, pero a las tres de la mañana puede que estés pegándote contra la pared diciendo, "Oh, dios, ¿qué he hecho"? Intelectualmente, sabemos que es lo mejor para nuestros bebés, e instintivamente, muchas de nosotras queremos lograrlo. Sin embargo, nuestra ensoñación durante el embarazo no nos prepara para el dolor, la frustración, la autocrítica y el...
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El salto de la gata fue escrito a partir de muchos cuentos escuchados en las reuniones del grupo de las Amigas do Peito, en plazas, fiestas, familias, salas de espera y reuniones escolares. No se pudieron abordar todos los acontecimientos de la vida de esta madre, pero sí lo que suele suceder con frecuencia aparece en el diario de esta mujer al nacer su primer hijo... Y no tendría mucha diferencia en casos de adopción, ya que las observaciones...
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For all women with healthy pregnancies who want to arm themselves with knowledge and avoid unnecessary interventions.
Author and mother Sonia Killik, urges and empowers expectant mothers to take back control of their bodies and their births. In a medicated world dominated by caesareans, interventions and impersonality, this step-by-step guide navigates the world of childbirth procedures.
It provides an in-depth account of all the options available...
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From bioethicist September Williams, MD, the author of 'Chasing Mercury,' with Mothers' Milk Bank, San Jose, comes ‘The Elephant in the Room: Bioethical Concerns in Human Milk Banking’. Seriously humorous, informative and timely, The Elephant... makes bioethics look sexy. The year 2018 will be remembered as pivotal in modern history. This year, the first mother-model (in more ways than one) helped empower all families by breastfeeding her baby...
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In “The Art of Giving Birth”, experienced doula, antenatal educator, and award-winning author Sallyann Beresford shares her Five Key Physiological Principles - to support you in understanding your options throughout pregnancy, labour and birth.
In this ground-breaking book, Sallyann reveals her tricks of the trade when it comes to not only planning, but succeeding at, achieving your dream birth experience. Throughout, she will share the steps...
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Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby is the ultimate pregnancy guide. Authors Siobhan Dolan, M.D., and Alice Lesch Kelly offer clear, friendly, authoritative, and essential advice, based on the latest research and findings, empowering mothers-to-be and new moms with more information and positive steps than have even been available before to ensure both a healthy pregnancy and a healthy, happy newborn. Supported and sponsored by the March of Dimes-one of America's...
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The simple, effective breastfeeding guide for first-time parents
When you're learning to breastfeed your first baby, the right support is essential. The First-Time Mom's Breastfeeding Handbook is the perfect encouraging, nonjudgmental guide to take you week-by-week through the first year and beyond. This easy-to-use reference can answer your most pressing breastfeeding questions-and empower you to give your baby a healthy head start.
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You've Got This, Mama: A Mother's Guide To Embracing The Chaos And Living An Empowered Life is a beautiful collection of heartwarming and inspiring stories told by the real mamas who experienced them. Let's face it, motherhood is the hardest job you'll ever love, and it is not meant to be braved alone. It takes a village, right? There is no greater comfort than knowing you're not alone. One, if not many, of these gorgeous souls will provide you with...
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Breastfeeding shouldn't be seen as a curse in disguise. As you breastfeed your baby, you provide him with nutrition, as well as create a strong bond between you and that baby. Breastfeeding is the hallmark of motherhood.
I'm sure I don't need to tell you why most children are more attached to their moms than to their dads.
But hold on for a second!
Has your breastfeeding experience turned out to be a "curse in disguise"?
What has your sex life...
12) Almost Me
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Almost Me by Quraisha Dawood is a personal journey through miscarriage, postpartum depression and motherhood.
This book is for you, the one who cannot find the words. To you, the one standing alone in the crowd. You, the one with your heart in two worlds. You with the lump in your throat. You, the smiling one with the invisible ache. You, the one who is tired of one more day.
You, resilient one.
14) Bonkers
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A Real Mum's Hilariously Honest Tales of Motherhood, Mayhem and Mental Health.
'You see, pre-motherhood I had this image of the sort of motherhood I was going to have. Happy, confident and in total control, breezing through my perfect new mum life, clad in white linen with a smiley easy-going baby attached to my hip. But then, something happened.'
A moving, inspirational and at times hilarious book from best-selling author Olivia Siegl. Part-memoir,...
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La guerre des tétines
Il est une guerre ignorée, largement tue par les médias, qui pourtant fait rage depuis des décennies. La « Milky War » terrorise chaque jour de jeunes femmes et le monde s'en fout! Si tu es une future maman pas encore maman, tu ne sais rien de tout cela. Pourtant, tu vas savoir. Tu vas te prendre le truc en plein dans la g... dans le pif, ou, plutt, en plein dans les nichons. Surtout si tu as des copines, une famille....
16) The Bump Plan
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A practical, expert-led, straight-talking guide to exercising during pregnancy and post-birth. Staying active during pregnancy and the postpartum period has vast physical and mental health benefits, but it's also a subject that's fraught with fear, myths, and misinformation. We're told by doctors to exercise, but we're not given the tools with which to do so. Enter: The Bump Plan, by personal trainer, pre-and-postnatal exercise specialist and mother...
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We all know that "you are what you eat." And once you conceive, your baby is what you eat as well-prenatal health and nutrition during pregnancy is so imperative!
The US is one of only eight countries in the world where the rate of mortality for pregnant women is on the rise, and obesity is one of the primary causes of this phenomenon-half of all pregnant women are considered overweight.
Widely accepted, doctor- and dietitian-prescribed nutrition...
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Aristotelous "has developed a comprehensive nutrition guide that helps expecting and postpartum women achieve ideal health and weight during pregnancy and beyond. Implementing philosophies of current, highly-effective gluten-free nutrition trends that have not been fully introduced to the prenatal and postpartum populations, The Whole Pregnancy offers a detailed dietary regimen that is based on whole and unprocessed foods, low-glycemic carbohydrates,...
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Best described as The Wrong Knickers for mums, in this wry, resonant and darkly funny memoir, journalist Grace Timothy explores motherhood as an issue of identity.
What begins as shock and then denial of how your life will change has to become acceptance when you're too big to walk/waddle/work; you're fully repurposed now; you're a mum, in everything you do, and everyone knows it. From the physical and emotional changes you encounter to the way your...
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