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The First Six Weeks: The Tried-and-Tested Guide that Shows You How to Have a Happy, Healthy Sleeping Baby

Cathryn Curtin · Allen & Unwin
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Cathryn Curtin has delivered more than 10,000 babies over the last 40 years, so she understands how the first six weeks of a baby's life are vital for establishing habits that help create a healthy, happy routine for your baby and a loving lifelong bond between you and your child. In this...
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On the Other Side of Chaos: Understanding the Addiction of a Loved One

Ellen Van Vechten JD · Central Recovery Press
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback

A lawyer turned counselor examines the chaos many families endure when addiction disrupts their lives. Based in part on her own family's journey, Van Vechten explains the science of addiction, the theory of treatment, and the Twelve-Step model of recovery, providing sensible information...
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The New Dad's Survival Guide: What to Expect in the First Year and Beyond

Rob Kemp · Random House UK
Format: Print book

The new dad's complete guide to their baby's first 18 months, combining an approachable tone with expert adviceYou read the pregnancy books, the nine months flew by without a hitch, the birth was wonderful, and your healthy baby arrived on schedule. Job well done,...
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The Birth Guy's Go-To Guide for New Dads: How to Support Your Partner Through Birth, Breastfeeding, and Beyond

Brian W. Salmon · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

A must-have baby shower gift for expectant dads! In this one-of-a-kind guide, dad, doula, and certified lactation counselor Brian Salmon and perinatal mental health and relationship expert Kirsten Brunner offer practical, modern-day survival tips for expectant dads and birth partners.Gone...
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Navigating Your Later Years For Dummies

Arthur Alcock Rambaut · For Dummies
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback

Long-Term Care: Planning for Finance, Medical, and Living Expenses We're living exciting bonus years - decades that our parents and grandparents didn't have. But how to navigate this complex terrain? Questions abound around long-term care planning: Where to live? How to get the best medical...
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Caroline and The Chocolate Mop

Tony Leva · Quixote Vision
Pages: 26
Format: Print book

A father's love of a story and a daughter's determination to get what she wants creates one BIG MESS! The fun had in the imagination of a beautiful 2-year old named Caroline and her magical Chocolate Mop will have you wishing you had a Chocolate Mop! Just don't mind the MESS....
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The American Academy of Pediatrics New Mother's Guide to Breastfeeding

Joan Younger Meek · Bantam
Pages: 295
Format: Paperback

THE BREASTFEEDING BOOK YOUR DOCTOR RECOMMENDS Why is breastfeeding the optimal choice? What happens when my maternity leave is over? What's the safest way to store pumped milk? The American Academy of Pediatrics answers these questions and many more in this invaluable resource to help...
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Uncommon Voyage: Parenting Children With Special Needs - A Guidebook

Laura Shapiro Kramer · BookBaby
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback

Laura Shapiro Kramer has turned her experience raising a special-needs child (already detailed in her successful memoir) into a guidebook for other parents.The e-book and web site contain multiple resources and she is building a community of support through Facebook, Twitter, and at uncommonvoyage.com.
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Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings

M.D. Kenneth R. Ginsburg MD FAAP · American Academy of Pediatrics; Third Edition edition
Format: Book

This award-winning guide from bestselling author and pediatrician Dr. Ken Ginsburg guides parents and other caring adults how to help kids from the age of 18 months to 18 years build the seven crucial Cs--competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control....
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Raising Grandkids: Inside Skipped-Generation Families

GARY GARRISON · University of Regina Press
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback

Raising Grandkids focuses on "skipped generation" families or grandparent-headed households. Collecting together stories from grandparents and reflecting on his own experience as an older caregiver to his stepchildren, Gary Garrison paints a compassionate yet compelling picture...
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Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

Moira Weigel · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Does anyone date anymore? Today, the authorities tell us that courtship is in crisis. But when Moira Weigel dives into the history of sex and romance in modern America, she discovers that authorities have always said this. Ever since young men and women started to go out together, older...
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Watch My Baby Grow

DK · DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Lots of books tell you about child development and a baby's first year, but Watch My Baby Grow shows you everything that happens in the first year of life in step-by-step pictures with detailed explanations. Every milestone of baby development, from gurgles to coos to first words, is documented...
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Baby 411: Clear Answers & Smart Advice for Your Baby's First Year

Ari Brown · Windsor Peak Press
Pages: 616
Format: Paperback

"(Baby 411 is) my go-to reference so I don't bother Charlotte's pediatrician!" -- Chelsea Clinton (US Weekly, Sept. 2015) . You are having a baby! Congratulations! Now, the reality hits you - what the heck am I doing? What if you could bottle the wisdom of all those...
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Talking Baby: Helping Your Child Discover Language

Margaret Maclagen · Finch Publishing
Pages: 183
Format: Paperback

This book starts by describing a baby's language development alongside their physical development in the first 18 months. It then discusses play - the way young children learn. It also explores childrens' very early acquisition of words, and how they use them, and it covers the exciting...
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The Dos and Don'ts of Pregnancy: From Conception to Birth

Louise Baty · Summersdale Publishers
Pages: 171
Format: Print book

Confused about what's good and bad for you and your baby? With the constant bombardment of what you can and can't do during pregnancy, parents-to-be can often feel stressed at a time which should be full of new and exciting discoveries. This concise and accessible book is packed...
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