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Baby Making for Everybody: Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents
by Marea Goodman, LM, CPM Ray Rachlin, LM, CPMThis inclusive, straightforward guide to fertility is What to Expect Before You&’re Expecting for families outside the heterosexual nuclear family model—perfect for LGBTQ+ and solo parents who want to have kids but don&’t know where to start. In Baby Making for Everybody, queer millennial midwives Ray Rachlin and Marea Goodman use their professional expertise to demystify the dizzying process of pursuing parenthood as queer and solo people, offering detailed, gender-affirming, body-positive advice on topics including: Fertility tracking for people with uteruses Choosing a sperm donor, egg donor, or surrogate Legal considerations for LGBTQ+ families Navigating pregnancy and gender identity IUI, ICI, and IVF procedures Foster parenting and adoption Miscarriage and infertility The result is a much-needed compassionate step-by-step guide for every aspect of the complicated, messy, and glorious process of building a family. Combining practical information with personal narratives and first-person community wisdom, this book provides prospective parents with the information they need to grow their families.
Baby Massage: Flash
by Pauline Carpenter Anita Thomas-EppleThe books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Baby Massage is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to learning basic massage techniques for your baby in a few short steps. Even if they are completely new to massage, in just 96 pages readers will discover how to master the essential movements and some simple routines to help them bond with their baby.
Baby Massage: Proven techniques to calm your baby and assist development
by Peter WalkerBeing massaged makes babies relax and cope better with stress, improves their muscular coordination and flexibility and helps them straighten tightly flexed hands and legs. And who better to teach parents how to acquire these essential skills than Peter Walker, the world's best-known baby massage teacher. In this fully revised edition of his bestselling guide, he demonstrates vital new sequences essential for very young babies, which can be done while a baby is clothed.
Baby Massage: Proven techniques to calm your baby and assist development (Carroll And Brown Parenting Bks.)
by Peter WalkerBeing massaged makes babies relax and cope better with stress, improves their muscular coordination and flexibility and helps them straighten tightly flexed hands and legs. And who better to teach parents how to acquire these essential skills than Peter Walker, the world's best-known baby massage teacher. In this fully revised edition of his best-selling guide, he demonstrates vital new sequences essential for very young babies, which can be done while a baby is clothed.
Baby Massage: Proven techniques to calm your baby and assist development (Carroll And Brown Parenting Bks.)
by Peter WalkerBeing massaged makes babies relax and cope better with stress, improves their muscular coordination and flexibility and helps them straighten tightly flexed hands and legs. And who better to teach parents how to acquire these essential skills than Peter Walker, the world's best-known baby massage teacher. In this fully revised edition of his bestselling guide, he demonstrates vital new sequences essential for very young babies, which can be done while a baby is clothed.
Baby Massage: Proven techniques to calm your baby and assist development
by Peter WalkerBeing massaged makes babies relax and cope better with stress, improves their muscular coordination and flexibility and helps them straighten tightly flexed hands and legs. And who better to teach parents how to acquire these essential skills than Peter Walker, the world's best-known baby massage teacher. In this fully revised edition of his best-selling guide, he demonstrates vital new sequences essential for very young babies, which can be done while a baby is clothed.
Baby Massage and Yoga: Teach Yourself (Teach Yourself General)
by Pauline Carpenter Anita Thomas-EppleBaby Massage and Yoga shows you how to get in touch with your baby using the technique of gentle massage and yoga exercises. It offers practical information demonstrating which tools, techniques and insights you'll need to best expose both yourself and your child to the many physical and emotional benefits of massage - including when the best times are, which oils to use and how to set the environment.It connects massage and yoga with story-telling, music and rhyme to increase mental and physical development, giving step-by-step guides simple massage routines for every part of the body. You'll learn simple yoga routines which you can try safely and effectively with your baby. Parents of children with special needs are shown simple, therapeutic exercises and plenty of practical and useful advice.Discover the healing power of touch with this authoritative, helpful and expertly written guide.ABOUT THE SERIESPeople have been learning with Teach Yourself since 1938. With a vast range of practical, how-to guides covering language learning, lifestyle, hobbies, business, psychology and self-help, there's a Teach Yourself book for whatever you want to do. Join more than 60 million people who have reached their goals with Teach Yourself, and never stop learning.
Baby Massage and Yoga: An authoritative guide to safe, effective massage and yoga exercises designed to benefit baby
by Anita Thomas-Epple Pauline CarpenterBaby Massage and Yoga shows you how to get in touch with your baby using the technique of gentle massage and yoga exercises. It offers practical information demonstrating which tools, techniques and insights you'll need to best expose both yourself and your child to the many physical and emotional benefits of massage - including when the best times are, which oils to use and how to set the environment.It connects massage and yoga with story-telling, music and rhyme to increase mental and physical development, giving step-by-step guides simple massage routines for every part of the body. You'll learn simple yoga routines which you can try safely and effectively with your baby. Parents of children with special needs are shown simple, therapeutic exercises and plenty of practical and useful advice.Discover the healing power of touch with this authoritative, helpful and expertly written guide.ABOUT THE SERIESPeople have been learning with Teach Yourself since 1938. With a vast range of practical, how-to guides covering language learning, lifestyle, hobbies, business, psychology and self-help, there's a Teach Yourself book for whatever you want to do. Join more than 60 million people who have reached their goals with Teach Yourself, and never stop learning.
Baby Massage: Flash
by Anita Thomas-Epple Pauline CarpenterThe books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Baby Massage is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to learning basic massage techniques for your baby in a few short steps. Even if they are completely new to massage, in just 96 pages readers will discover how to master the essential movements and some simple routines to help them bond with their baby.
Baby McStuffins (Little Golden Book)
by Jennifer LibertsDoc practices taking care of a baby doll to help get ready for the arrival of a newly adopted baby McStuffins! Children ages 2 to 5 will love this full-color Little Golden Book retelling of an episode of the hit Disney Junior series Doc McStuffins!
Baby Medbasics: Lifesaving Action Steps at Your Fingertips: Birth to One Year
by Luke Hermann Tara Summers HermannIf your baby was suddenly choking on a Cheerio, would you know what to do? With "Baby Medbasics," a frantic parent can find that urgent information quickly and easily. With first aid for choking, CPR, fever, bleeding, and burns, "Baby Medbasics" boils it down to the essentials, providing parents and caregivers with an absolute must-have reference in preparing for serious emergencies. In an emergency, every second counts: with its quick-to-find tabs, lay-flat spiral design, and portable size, "Baby Medbasics" is an empowering peace of mind resource for parents and caregivers. If your baby was suddenly choking on a Cheerio, would you know what to do? With "Baby Medbasics," a frantic parent can find that urgent information quickly and easily. With first aid for choking, CPR, fever, bleeding, and burns, "Baby Medbasics" boils it down to the essentials, providing parents and caregivers with an absolute must-have reference in preparing for serious emergencies. In an emergency, every second counts: with its quick-to-find tabs, lay-flat spiral design, and portable size, "Baby Medbasics" is an empowering peace of mind resource for parents and caregivers.
Baby Name Numerology: Give Your Baby the Best Start with the Magic of Numbers
by Sonia DucieEvery parent wants to give their child the best start in life, but choosing the perfect name is difficult. With this book you can discover how the power of numbers will positively influence your child's entire life.Numerology is the language of the most essential components of the universe: numbers. The deep influence of numbers can instil a person's life with positivity and meaning from birth.Choosing a baby's name is a unique and special experience, but it can feel like an enormous weight of responsibility for parents. This book helps to make the process of baby naming easy and enjoyable, drawing upon numerology to reveal the truth about the names that will influence a baby for life. Numerology will provide the concise information that allows parents to find the perfect name for their baby.Sonia Ducie provides concise numerological information to help parents find the perfect name for their baby. She gives detailed practical guidance on using the ancient science and psychology of numbers to access the hidden energy of any name at a very deep level and expose its true essence. The vibrational energy of our names influences us throughout our lives: hence the importance of choosing wisely. Names bring us gifts, challenges and also hold potential for us to explore. This book offers an exciting and time-honoured system that enables parents to narrow down the choice of options and find a name that feels just right for their child.
Baby Names: 1,200 Favorite Names for Boys and Girls
by DKThis colorful, informative guide offers a great collection of first names and is sure to help you find the right one for your baby. Baby Names contains more than 1,200 inspirational naming ideas for boys and girls, both classic and modern, listed alphabetically, with their fascinating meanings explained. You&’ll learn the exciting origins behind names you hear every day, as well as discover an abundance of original names you&’ve never heard before. Perfect for expecting parents, Baby Names makes choosing a name easy and fun! Do you want to know the meaning behind a name with special significance for your family or culture? Are you on lookout for a name that&’s rare and special, so your child&’s name will be as unique as they are? Maybe you&’re searching for a name with sacred significance, or maybe you and partner just can&’t seem to make up your minds and agree. (It happens!) No matter what your naming situation, Baby Names is the book for you.
Baby: Night Night! (Chunky Baby)
by DKFrom fluffy blankets to cuddly teddies, babies will love learning about bedtime in this book. Watch as they explore the shapes.
Baby Nosh: Plant-Based, Gluten-Free Goodness for Baby's Food Sensitivities
by Jennifer Browne Tanya R. LoewenCaring for a baby or small child with food sensitivities is never fun--especially if you have no idea what the culprit is. Meet Jennifer and Tanya: two modern mamas with a combined seven children and twenty-five years’ worth of experience in navigating the problem of what to feed a baby with an uncooperative digestive tract. Written in frank, humorous language displaying a boisterous passion for real food, this book schools readers on what some common food offenders are, why food sensitivities are more prevalent now than in the past, secrets to assembling the perfect pantry, and how to cook one meal that will nourish anyone from six months to sixty years with simple, wholesome ingredients. Here are fifty plant-based, gluten-free, easily digestible recipes that are not only nutritious, delicious, and kind to your little one’s gut, but are also appropriate for the entire family. There are even a handful of natural food remedies for teething pain, fevers, cold and flu, and more. From yam medallions to strawberry-chia spread, carrot-ginger swirl pancakes to chamomile teething treats, Baby Nosh will simplify mealtimes and help your baby or toddler thrive!
The Baby Nurse Bible: Secrets Only a Baby Nurse Can Tell You about Having and Caring for Your Baby
by Carole Kramer Arsenault RN IbclcThere are lots of books for expecting and new parents—but this one is something special. Carole Kramer Arsenault has devoted her career to infant and pregnancy care, and worked for many years as a labor and delivery nurse, including at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She went on to found Boston Baby Nurses, where her team of nurses has helped hundreds of first-time parents adjust to their new role. <P><P>Now, The Baby Nurse Bible brings Arsenault’s expert guidance to new parents everywhere. Packed with information parents need for the first trimester of pregnancy through baby’s first three months, it offers: <br>Guidance on first decisions, including choosing a pediatrician and signing up for childbirth classes <br>Answers to hundreds of the most-asked questions that Arsenault fields daily <br>Advice on preparing for baby’s arrival and choosing safe, nontoxic home and baby products <br>A nurse’s perspective and insider tips on labor, delivery, and how to make the most of the hospital experience <br>A complete guide to successful breastfeeding, based on Arsenault’s IBLCE certification <br>Flexible daily routines to help parents juggle sleeping, soothing, playtime—and time for themselves—during those first few months <br>Suggestions for Dad’s role in the birth process and beyond <br>Helpful illustrations throughout, and much more!
Baby on Board: Becoming A Mother Without Losing Yourself : A Guide For Moms-to-be
by Joelle Jay Amy KovarickMost mothers-to-be are so busy preparing for their babies that they fail to focus on themselves. But during this incredible, thrilling, life-changing time, it is more important than ever that they take the time to reflect. What kind of mother do they want to be? Will they fashion themselves after their own moms, or do they picture their lives differently? Filled with practical advice and heartfelt wisdom, as well as anecdotes and hands-on exercises, Baby on Board is an encouraging and inspiring guide that helps readers figure out what motherhood means to them personally, while ensuring that they don’t lose their sense of self as they become parents. Based on the authors’ successful life-coaching of women across the country, Baby on Board helps readers discover what will bring them balance and fulfillment as new mothers as they juggle career, family demands, social expectations, and their own needs and dreams. This unique book supports, encourages, and celebrates each woman's unique path to motherhood, giving each just the right amount of direction to let them lead themselves.
Baby Pig Pig Walks
by David McPhailDavid McPhail takes readers back in time to when Pig Pig, star of the popular picture-book series, was a baby. Baby Pig Pig is learning to walk. After a few rough starts, he makes his way out of the playpen and into the kitchen, right into his mother's waiting arms.
Baby Present
by Rachel NeumannBaby Present combines the inherent love babies have for one another with a tongue-in-cheek take on mindfulness for their parents and caretakers. This is for the perfect gift for the emerging generation of calm, cool, kids and their caretakers! A wide diversity of the most photogenic 6—9 month-olds, all from Oakland and Berkeley, California, has been captured mid-smile while making unmistakable eye-contact with the infants to whom this book will be read. Baby Present celebrates the unadulterated ability all infants have to be in the present, showcasing their natural, inherent mindfulness and reminding those reading to them to enjoy this time in their babies&’ lives, to breathe and practice mindfulness along with their baby, and to knowingly laugh at the trend of it all. Cultivating the mindfulness habit with babies can set them up with a coping and happiness skill for life. And when you&’re not reading it to them, this book is perfect for ruminating about while chewing: it&’s printed on the highest quality non-toxic cardboard with soy inks and rounded corners.
Baby Proof: Mocktails For The Mom-to-be
by Nicole Nared-WashingtonWhat to drink when you’re expecting. When blogger Nicole Nared-Washington got pregnant, she knew she was going to miss Bellinis with her girlfriends and a glass of wine with dinner—and then she realized she this was an opportunity to stay social and fun without the booze. In Baby Proof, Nared-Washington shares the 50 recipes that got her through dinner parties, barbecues, date nights, and even morning sickness. She uses fresh fruit and herbs to create non-alcoholic drinks such as: Baby Sunrise White Grape and Basil Spritzer Raspberry Leaf Sangria You don’t need the spirits to enjoy the cocktail (honestly!).
Baby Shark: Wash Your Hands! (Baby Shark)
by PinkfongSing along with Baby Shark! This storybook is a fun way to help little ones remember an important part of staying safe, especially as they return to daycare and classrooms.Sing along with Baby Shark and friends as they wash their fins! Then after their fins are squeaky clean, Baby Shark also shows us how to cover our sneezes and keep ourselves and everyone around us happy and healthy. This official title, fully endorsed by Pinkfong and Nickelodeon, is based on characters from the YouTube global phenomenon with over 4.4 billion views.This storybook is an excellent tool for kids ages 3 to 6 and their caregivers, as it teaches the important steps of washing your hands. A good choice for parents and teachers looking for reassuring, fun ways to guide and reassure children. Like such books as Lucy's Mask, Baby Shark: Wash Your Hands! is a book to share as a fun story while also gently providing important guidance.
Baby Shiatsu: Gentle Touch to Help your Baby Thrive
by Anne Oppenheimer Karin Kalbantner-Wernicke Sabine Stempfle Steffen Fischer Tina HaaseBabies feel intuitively what scientists have needed painstaking research to establish: being touched and caressed is good for you. It makes you clever and cheerful, strengthens the parent-child bond, and lays the foundation for a healthy life. With baby shiatsu you can support your child's development. The gentle pressure-point massage meets the needs of tiny babies. This book shows you the various shiatsu techniques step by step. The first year of life is divided into four sections: · one to three months · four to six months · seven to nine months · ten to twelve months There are also specific techniques to help with health problems, which can, for example, soothe tummy ache and counteract difficulty in sleeping. And there's more: · Creating a state of calm · Easing wind · Calming the stomach · Breathing freely · For a good sleep · Strengthening the immune system
The Baby Shower Planning Guide
by Verity DavidsonYour friend has announced she’s expecting – and you’re in charge of the baby shower preparations. This is a time to celebrate, so dive into this indispensable treasure trove of theme ideas, activities, gifts, games and treats to make, as well as practical party-planning tips and advice, and throw your friend the shower she deserves!
The Baby Shower Planning Guide
by Verity DavidsonYour friend has announced she’s expecting – and you’re in charge of the baby shower preparations. This is a time to celebrate, so dive into this indispensable treasure trove of theme ideas, activities, gifts, games and treats to make, as well as practical party-planning tips and advice, and throw your friend the shower she deserves!
The Baby-Sitters Club #114: Secret Life of Mary Anne Spier (The Baby-Sitters Club #114)
by Ann M. MartinDuring a Christmas shopping spree, Mary Anne racks up a large debt on her father's credit card. Baby-sitting won't cover the charges so she takes a secret job as a department store elf to pay her father back.