All Childbirth and Parenting Books
- The Joy of Pregnancy
- The Complete, Candid, and Reassuring Companion for Parents-To-Be
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- By Tori Kropp
- Paperback, $14.95
- Hardcover, $26.95
- In a lighthearted and encouraging tone that’s also informative, The Joy of Pregnancy helps mothers- and fathers-to-be concentrate on the miracle of pregnancy and birth. The month-by-month format provides the essential information that expectant parents crave: how the baby is developing, how the mother’s body is changing, how to prepare for birth and baby, and the pros and cons of various pregnancy-related choices and issues. With this book by their side, expectant parents will be prepared to take an active role in ensuring a healthy, happy, and truly joyful pregnancy.
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- 25 Things Every New Mother Should Know
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- By Martha Sears, Dr. William Sears
- Hardcover, $12.95
- America’s baby experts offer 25 timeless points for new mothers. This beloved collection of thoughtful, insightful, and practical advice is now made even better with beautiful 4-color illustrations throughout—a great gift!
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- A Good Birth, A Safe Birth
- Choosing and Having the Childbirth Experience You Want
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- By Diana Korte, Roberta M. Scaer
- Paperback, $15.95
- A Good Birth, A Safe Birth helps expectant mothers gain control over their deliveries. It provides detailed information about childbirth options, with advice on how to find an appropriate doctor and hospital, on questions an expectant mother may ask to make sure she gets the kind of childbirth she wants, on the benefits and drawbacks of medications and pain-killers, and much more.
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- Active Birth
- The New Approach to Giving Birth Naturally
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- By Janet Balaskas
- Paperback, $14.95
- This comprehensive guide to childbirth preparation offers important lessons in just how natural birth can be for both childbearing couples and professionals. Active Birth helps mothers participate more actively in pregnancy and childbirth and brings back some of the instinctive common sense that is often over-looked by modern obstetrics.
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- Adopting the Older Child
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- By Claudia Jewett Jarratt
- Paperback, $16.95
- Hundreds of thousands of children in this country are without permanent homes, waiting in foster homes and institutions for families to adopt them. In “a book that social workers and parents have been waiting for” (Child Welfare), Claudia Jewett explains just what is in store for those who decide to open their hearts to a waiting child.
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- After Miscarriage
- Medical Facts and Emotional Support for Pregnancy Loss
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- By Krissi Danielsson
- Paperback, $12.95
- Hardcover, $21.95
- In this supportive and comprehensive guide for women and their partners who have experienced one or more miscarriages, Danielsson provides expertly reviewed, carefully documented medical information, anecdotes and inspiring stories from couples who have had a baby after losing one, and a chapter just for dads. This invaluable resource will help couples cope and move forward after pregnancy loss.
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- Crying Baby, Sleepless Nights
- Why Your Baby is Crying and What You Can Do About It
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- By Sandy Jones
- Paperback, $12.95
- This reassuring guide to the many causes of infant crying enables parents both to make their babies happier and to cope better with their own emotions. Sandy Jones soothes overwrought parents and helps them identify the source of their baby’s suffering.
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- Easing Labor Pain
- The Complete Guide to a More Comfortable and Rewarding Birth
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- By Adrienne B. Lieberman
- Paperback, $15.95
- Easing Labor Pain is a positive and encouraging guide to everything an expectant mother can do – from pregnancy through postpartum, but especially during labor – to make sure pain doesn’t overshadow the joy of giving birth. It has information about breathing, massage, acupressure, biofeedback, epidurals and other anesthetics, as well as many other coping strategies.
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- Essential Exercises for Breast Cancer Survivors
- How to Live Stronger and Feel Better
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- By Amy Halverstadt, Andrea Leonard
- Paperback, $16.95
- Essential Exercises for Breast Cancer Survivors includes more than 100 pages of exercises, divided into four levels of difficulty and illustrated with more than 140 photographs. This book tells you how to asses your readiness for exercise, set personal goals, and advance through the program at a safe and effective pace.
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- Father’s First Steps
- 25 Things Every New Dad Should Know
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- By Dr. Robert Sears, Dr. James Sears
- Hardcover, $12.95
- In Father’s First Steps the Searses discuss 25 important aspects of new fatherhood in an encouraging and lighthearted tone. They offer guidance on issues including bonding with a new baby, supporting the mother in breastfeeding, dealing with nighttime feedings and lack of sleep, sex after baby, and much more. Featuring a stylish four-color design with inviting illustrations, this succinct but inspiring read makes a great gift for new or expectant fathers.
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- Getting to Dry
- How to Help Your Child Overcome Bedwetting
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- By Max Maizels, Diane Rosenbaum, and Barbara Keating, Barbara Keating
- Paperback, $14.95
- The experts at the country’s leading center for treating childhood enuresis offer proven techniques to bring bedwetting to a happy end. They cover the pros and cons of wetting alarms, drug therapies, biofeedback treatment, and changes in diet and sleeping schedules, and they provide friendly advice on how to replace punishment and shame with awards and praise. With diaries, calendars, and other visual aids that help the child share responsibility for a solution, this authoritative book gets parents and children over a most frustrating hurdle.
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- Hello, My Name Is…
- A Guide to Naming Your Baby
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- By Jeff Bradley, Truman and Walker Bradley
- Paperback, $14.95
- With more than 25,000 entries in A-to-Z lists of boys’ and girls’ names, plus loads of informative and entertaining sidebars, Hello, My Name Is. . . is the only book new parents need to choose a name for their baby. This engaging two-color guide includes advice on naming multiples, anecdotes from parents on how they chose their babies’ names, guidance on considering potential nicknames and what a child’s initials might spell, and much more.
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- Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss
- Revised Edition
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- By Claudia Jewett Jarratt
- Paperback, $14.95
- Here is compassionate, step-by-step guidance for any concerned adult who wants to help a child talk about, cope with, and recover from a loss. In this revised edition of a bestselling work, Claudia Jewett Jarratt offers warm advice, specific techniques, and innovative ideas for helping children overcome the sadness, anger, and anxiety they feel during a difficult time.
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- Moving with Kids
- 25 Ways to Ease Your Family’s Transition to a New Home
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- By Lori Collins Burgan
- Paperback, $9.95
- Hardcover, $19.95
- The only up-to-date book of its kind on the market, Moving with Kids provides parents with 25 practical and inspiring tips to help them ease their children’s transition and make the move a positive experience. Themes include giving kids a sense of control and involvement in the move, making the physical move less stressful, and creating a sense of belonging in their new home.
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- Nine Months and a Day
- A Pregnancy and Birth Companion
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- By Adrienne B. Lieberman, Dr. Linda Hughey Holt
- Paperback, $10.95
- This concise yet thorough guide to pregnancy and delivery is written by a doctor and a childbirth educator in a straightforward, practical, and informative style. It includes all the essential information a mother-to-be will want at her fingertips.
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