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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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To Have and to Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma

Molly Millwood PhD - Harper Wave
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A clinical psychologist's exploration of the modern dilemmas women face in the wake of new motherhood When Molly Millwood became a mother, she was fully prepared for what she would gain: an adorable baby boy; hard-won mothering skills; and a messy, chaotic, beautiful life. But what she did not expect...
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Eating for Pregnancy: Your Essential Month-by-Month Nutrition Guide and Cookbook

Catherine Jones - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

The comprehensive pregnancy nutrition guide, completely revised to cover baby's development and mom's health month by month, and updated with the latest research and 25 new recipesEating for Pregnancy is the ultimate no-nonsense nutrition guide and cookbook for moms-to-be. Every...
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Where's My Money?: Secrets to Getting the Most out of Your Social Security

Bob Carlson
Format: Hardcover

10,000 baby boomers turn age 65 every single day in America. They face a series of complicated and difficult decisions about what they should do with their Social Security retirement benefits. Choose rashly, and they risk running out of money in the middle of retirement, And if they wait...
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Birth Partner 5th Edition: A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Partners, Doulas, and All Other Labor Companions

Penny Simkin - Harvard Common Press
Pages: 440
Format: Paperback

Since the original publication of The Birth Partner, partners, friends, relatives, and doulas have relied on Penny Simkin's guidance in caring for the new mother, from her last trimester through the early postpartum period. Now fully revised in its fifth edition, The Birth Partner remains...
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How Do I Explain This to My Kids?: Parenting in the Age of Trump

Sarah Swong - The New Press
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

The day after the 2016 presidential election, filmmaker Carlos Sandoval found Ku Klux Klan fliers on the seats of the Long Island Railroad and recounts how his Cuban American niece Lexi's world was "shattered" by the election - she is one of thousands of children wondering if they...
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The Family Roe: An American Story

Joshua Prager - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A masterpiece of reporting on the Supreme Court's most divisive case, Roe v. Wade, and the unknown lives at its heart.Despite her famous pseudonym, no one knows the truth about "Jane Roe," Norma McCorvey (1947-2017) , whose unwanted pregnancy in 1970 opened a great fracture...
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Unbound: The Life and Art of Judith Scott

Joyce Scott - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Judith Scott was born with Down syndrome. She was deaf, and never learned to speak. She was also a talented artist. Judith was institutionalized until her sister Joyce reunited with her and enrolled her in an art class. Judith went on to become an artist of renown with her work displayed...
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The Brink of Being: Talking About Miscarriage

Julia Bueno - Penguin Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

"Wise and compassionate . . . a profound game-changer of a book." --Caroline Leavitt, author of Pictures of YouThough approximately one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage, it remains a rarely talked about, under-researched, and largely misunderstood area of women's...
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Mom Life: Perfection Pending

Meredith Ethington - Absolute Love Publishing
Pages: 149
Format: Paperback

Ethington "provides moms a healthy dose of parenting reality, while encouraging them to be confident in taking on the hardest job on earth--being a mother." - Jill Smokler, New York Times bestselling author and founder of Scary Mommy Out-parented at PTA? Out-liked on social media?...
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