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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, but little attention has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish infants for private adoption. Relinquished reveals adoption to be a path of constrained...
Author
Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Miranda Thorpe, an experienced psychotherapist and grandmother, offers us a unique book about a valuable parenting skill that is rapidly being lost around the world. The simple technique of early and gentle toilet training (Elimination Communication) is a traditional method of using observation, timing, sounds, and intuition with minimal use of nappies (diapers). This 'dance' between the caregiver and baby results in a stronger 'in sync' bond that...
Author
Language
English
Description
When her 18-year-old twins leave for university, single mum Nadia's life changes in ways she never expected: her Glasgow flat feels suddenly huge, laundry doesn't take up half her week, and she no longer has to buy 'the Big Milk'. After almost two decades of putting everyone else first, Nadia is finally taking care of herself. And with a budding romance with new boyfriend Jack, she's never felt more alive.
That is, until her son Alfie drops out of...
Author
Language
English
Description
The gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times top 20 bestseller 'Deliciously twisted' Red'Addictive' Stylist'Atmospheric' Good Housekeeping Having a baby is all about firsts. The first touch. The first kiss. The first cuddle. They mark a lifetime of firsts — including the first goodbye. When Romilly says goodbye to her new baby daughter, abandoning her at the hospital hours after giving birth, no one can understand why she would leave — and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Pre-order now! From the creator of viral Tiktok sensation, Mammy Banter, comes a hilarious warts-and-all novel about modern motherhood – and how having it all sometimes isn't what you think it might be. She used to want it all.Now she just wants a nap. Tara Gallagher is knackered. She used to dream of being Beyoncé but suddenly she's thirty-six – with three kids, a loving husband, a very boring job – and instead of headlining Coachella, she's...
Author
Publisher
Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Help, I'm Failing as a Mom! helps mothers handle their child's mood disorder without feeling like a failure as a parent.
Tanya Trevett is a mental health coach, teacher, and certified Reiki and IET® Practitioner, as well as the mother of three daughters with mental illnesses. In Help, I'm Failing as a Mom!, she guides mothers through the eight-step WELLNESS Process that teaches them how to handle their child's mood disorder without feeling as if...
Author
Publisher
Canelo
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When you hit rock bottom, the only way is up…
...Sky is devastated when she finds that her husband is in love with someone else – her oldest friend Nick. Suddenly she has lost the two most important men in her life and her entire past feels like a lie. How can she ever trust again?
Seeking escape, she goes alone on a dream trip to Marrakech where she meets Gail, a woman on a mission to meet the father of her child, a man she loved but
Author
Publisher
The Feminist Press at Cuny
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This novel “unflinchingly confronts the issue of Jewish continuity in a diverse and changing America” (Anne Roiphe, author and journalist).
Feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s second novel is the story of Zach Levy, the left-leaning son of Holocaust survivors who promises his mother on her deathbed that he will marry within the tribe and raise Jewish children. When he falls for Cleo Scott, an African American...
Feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s second novel is the story of Zach Levy, the left-leaning son of Holocaust survivors who promises his mother on her deathbed that he will marry within the tribe and raise Jewish children. When he falls for Cleo Scott, an African American...
Author
Publisher
Moxie Road Productions
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When Janine Kovac gives birth to micro preemie twins nearly four months before they are due, she channels the grace and strength that carried her through a successful ballet career. The human body has amazing healing powers if you just know how to listen to it. But old habits bring up old haunts and bitter memories--the futile quest for perfection and a career-ending injury. In the sterile, fluorescent world of the NICU, ballet breeds hope as the...
Author
Publisher
Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Help! My Husband is Hardly Home helps women find the happiness and support they need at home.
Author, lightworker, mother, and wife, Kelsey Domiana knows all too well what it means to feel unsupported and exhausted with raising a family. As her husband, a professional basketball player, is often traveling, she realized that she needed to reclaim her joy and find a support system. Kelsey knows that it’s not impossible to feel empowered when one’s...
Author
Publisher
Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The End is Near helps parents find exactly what they want to do with their life once their kids are grown. Amie Eyre Newhouse combines her 24 years as a Registered Nurse helping patients make extraordinarily difficult medical decisions with her personal experience of surviving breast cancer and childhood trauma along with her own journey from full-time parent to empty nester together in order to help parents find their life's purpose beyond parenting....
Author
Publisher
Aristata Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
“Raising Owen: An Extra-ordinary Memoir of Motherhood” is the story of a first time mother coming to terms with her oldest son's surprise diagnosis of Down syndrome shortly after his birth.
Like any first-time mother, Suzanne Lezotte assumed having her first baby would come with all the usual pleasures and trials of motherhood, except one-an unexpected diagnosis of Down syndrome when her son Owen was seven days old. Her every expectation of parenthood...
Author
Publisher
Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
So Many Babies describes one overworked physician-mother as she journeys through medicine and motherhood raising three children.
While practicing medicine in the NICU full time for over thirty years, Susan Landers, MD met and managed many trials raising her three children, trials typical for many working mothers, such as breastfeeding, sibling rivalry, bedwetting, dyslexia, a gifted child, ADHD, a dog bite, and an adolescent eating disorder. The...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Transister is the story of a family in transition. Not a prescriptive narrative but an affirming one. A raw, honest, sometimes humorous account of author Kate Brookes’s journey as her young child grapples with gender identity and becomes her authentic self.
Brookes has longed to become a mother for as long as she can remember. And for almost as long, she has harbored a fierce determination to parent her children differently—better—than
Author
Publisher
Mango Media
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Essential Advice for the New Mom
...“Michelle is going to help ease the worries so many new moms have and inspire them to be the best version of themselves.” —Jennika Anderson, YouTube Vlogger
If you are a new mom, motherhood can be a daunting role if you have little to no experience caring for kids. Popular YouTube mom of five, Michelle Pearson, is here to encourage you to take a deep breath and step into your power!
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Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The perfect gift for every parent, this book explores the amazing effect of love on the developing brains of babies and toddlers
Shaped by Love celebrates the interactions between babies and toddlers and the most significant people in their young lives—their parents and caregivers. It details developmental phases from infancy through toddlerhood and offers information and beautiful images that encourage healthy and nurturing
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Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Has it been months since you've read a book with actual adult words that had nothing to do with farm animals or superheroes or going potty? Well then, it's time to take a break. Pour yourself some wine. Put on your comfy pants. All good? Ok, welcome to the party.
Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley, the creators of #IMOMSOHARD, know that you probably didn't get to shower today and that the last thing you need is more advice...
Author
Publisher
Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Within The Anxious Mom Manifesto, Paola B. Sur reveals personal stories, experiences, and tips of her journey as a mom living with anxiety.
Paola suffered from anxiety almost all her life but was not diagnosed with the actual Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) until she was an adult. She describes anxiety as "a monster that every day you try to defeat but instead, you might end up feeding it, nurturing it and making it stronger and scarier." However,...
Author
Language
English
Description
When Stephanie is told she's pregnant and that she is sick on the same day, she faces an impossible choice… After trying for a baby for so long, finding out I was pregnant was supposed to be the happiest day of my life. But in the same breath as the news I had been waiting years to hear, the doctor told me I was seriously ill. If I carry my baby to term, I will almost certainly die. If I proceed with treatment, my baby will not live. My husband...
Author
Publisher
Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
New Mom, New Job is the career-change guide for women who are amazing at what they do, but now have kids to consider in their quest for a life they love.
Megan Day, a certified career coach and mom of two, is a wise and trusted friend guiding women throughout New Mom, New Job on what their next step is. Within New Mom, New Job she takes women through the process she has used with dozens of her clients. Throughout its pages, women learn:
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