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A supportive, sustainable baby sleep plan for sleep-deprived parents
If there's one thing every parent knows-it's that you can't talk your baby into falling asleep. The Baby Sleep Plan is a confident approach to teaching your child the skills to not only get themselves to sleep but stay asleep throughout the night.
The Baby Sleep Plan gives you the lowdown on transitioning to sleep training, such as phasing out naps and pulling back on nighttime...
522) A Mom Is Born: Biblical Wisdom and Practical Advice for Taking Care of Yourself and Your New Baby
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Practical strategies, checklists, and planning tools to help couples navigate the pregnancy, childbirth, and newborn stages together.
Preparing for the birth of your child is a life-changing experience, but it doesn't have to be an overwhelming one. Couples can tackle everything that needs to get done if they work together as a team, all while setting the foundation for a strong partnership that carries them through the next stage as first-time parents....
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The only naming book you'll need for your little girl-to-be!
Perfect for baby showers, gender reveals, and parents with a little girl on the way, THE BEST BABY NAMES FOR GIRLS is the only naming book created with baby in mind. Filled with over 100 helpful lists, naming tips, and a collection of girl-centric names to browse, this book makes it easy to find the ideal fit for your family. Gone are the days where you need a massive compendium of baby...
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Nearly half a million preemies are born in the U.S. every year. But like most people, Jeff Stimpson, the father who wrote Alex, never gave premature babies a thought beyond the cliche of medical miracles. Many of these children grow up with special needs, necessitating an increasing and ever-controversial burden on society. Medicine is creating not only a new population of individuals, but a special and growing population of parents and families....
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If you've ever wished for a step-by-step guide to supporting your baby's development...Distilled, research-based developmental information paired with simple activities to play with your baby on a week-by-week basis, guiding you and your baby through the first year of life.
There's no such thing as a "how-to-parent" guide -but this book comes close...a rare gem that helps parents feel informed. Learn how to "think outside the box" when it comes to...
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A comprehensive and approachable guide to raising infants and toddlers with help from the stars, from journalist and astrologer Maressa Brown.
Beginning with your baby's sun sign, then diving into their whole birth chart, here's how to use astrology to decode your little one's personality, character traits, communication style, likes and dislikes, inspiration for happiness, and triggers for fussiness, even the best-suited books, toys, and activities....
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A Proven Behaviour Strategy for Toddlers
There are no bad children-only challenging behaviours. The toddler years, as any parent or educator knows, can be a particularly difficult period. But it doesn't have to be.
Author Jacquie Kaufman has harnessed her forty-plus years of experience as an educator (and parent) to offer a strategy that not only troubleshoots those common toddler behaviours, but that equips the child with skills for successful...
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Sandi Kahn Shelton takes readers on a wild ride through the journey of parenting -- from the first disillusioning night home from the hospital with a brand-new baby, to the joys of toilet training, and the hair-raising terrible twos. Candid, uplifting, and side-splittingly funny, this book is just what every new mom and dad needs to help them see the lighter side of changing diapers, meddling in-laws, baby's first curse word, and, of course, sleepless...
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Dr. Nadine Burke Harris was already known as a crusading physician delivering targeted care to vulnerable children. But it was Diego-a boy who had stopped growing after a sexual assault-who galvanized her journey to uncover the connections between toxic stress and lifelong illnesses.
The stunning news of Burke Harris's research is just how deeply our bodies can be imprinted by ACEs-adverse childhood experiences like abuse, neglect, parental addiction,...
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What if your baby could "talk" to you before he or she could actually speak? Sign Babies creator Nancy Cadjan brings years of expertise to Baby Signing 1-2-3, teaching you her unique and easy way of learning baby signing through rich illustrations. Baby Signing 1-2-3 provides specific signs and techniques for different age ranges, so you know how to work best with baby at each stage of development. Packed full of pictures that show and explain each...
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Toxic stress can occur in any home, rich or poor, regardless of age, education, or walk of life. Research has shown that adaptive, supportive parents are the best at insulating their children from all but the biggest catastrophes. Exposure to "toxic stress" in childhood can cause depression, alcoholism, obesity, violent behavior, heart disease, and even cancer in adulthood. Parents who are less sensitive or attentive or who regularly misinterpret...
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Kinder, Gentler, and It Really Works
Based on the human rest and activity cycle that occurs every hour and a half, here's a scientifically based program for parents to help babies get all the sleep they need, both through the night and during the day. The method is simple, foolproof, and yields long-lasting results: truly restful daytime naps (which also gives an infant a head start on cognitive development and emotional intelligence) and consistent...
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Being Zen(ish) is what we call it, and it's the ish that we endorse!
Teresa Palmer and Sarah Wright Olsen, two moms from opposite sides of the world, are doing their best to raise happy, empathetic children while working, traveling, and maintaining their sanity. With seven kids between them, the founders of the much-loved Your Zen Mama blog know as well as anyone that motherhood doesn't exist in the highlight reel of life, and that finding even a...
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"Is your baby sleeping through the night?"
This is the worst question you could ever ask a parent. Seriously.
And news flash! Even if your child is sleeping through the night this week, that doesn't mean they will be for much longer. Every other week, babies are teething, experiencing a growth spurt, or entering a dreaded sleep regression.
Bedtime, the Ultimate Battle is a concise and humorous tool that even the most sleep-deprived parents will...
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So you thought the difficult stage was over: the midnight feedings, the colic, the breast pumps, the endless diaper changings. Just when you thought you'd reached the blissful stretch of parenthood...here come the toddler/preschool years! Only Sandi Kahn Shelton could deliver such a dead-on, hilarious, true-ringing look at the walking, talking, crazy years.
In Preschool Confidential, she explores such universal topics as:
--Dealing with the mutiny...
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Moms enter the world of motherhood with no sense of the impact that entry will have upon them. They need orientation and guidance to get through this bewildering maze-and The ABCs of Being Mom, with its abundance of wisdom acquired directly from the trenches of motherhood struggles, is that roadmap.
In this instructive guide, Karen Bongiorno addresses the changes parenthood brings and how to manage them, the importance of being part of a supportive...
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Created by pediatrician and neonatologist Dr. Launice Melbourne, E.A.C.H. Little Step is a collection of daily affirmations tailored to moms who unexpectedly find themselves in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
This truly special journal shares psychological and spiritual support to mothers throughout their difficult journeys in the NICU, as well as once they return home. It provides preemie mothers a means to focus on important and often...
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It's time to change the way we see babies.
Drawing on principles developed by the educator Dr. Maria Montessori, The Montessori Baby shows how to raise your baby from birth to age one with love, respect, insight, and a surprising sense of calm. Cowritten by Simone Davies, author of the bestselling The Montessori Toddler, and Junnifa Uzodike, it's a book filled with hundreds of practical ideas for understanding what is actually happening with your...
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There's a reason why more than two million women turn to TheBump.com each month. From its sassy and straightforward tone to its honest advice and fun visuals, the website is the go-to resource for the modern mom-to-be. Here, the experts behind The Baby Bump bring their wisdom to moms expecting multiples. Packed with expert advice and insights, this comprehensive guide answers the questions expectant moms are sure to have (like "Are my babies growing...
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Two little hands Productions
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c2004
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1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Teaches American Sign Language signs. Combines signing children and infants, animation and music, and an adult to model each sign. Teaches babies to sign before they can speak. Includes signs for red, yellow, blue, grape, peach, strawberry, carrot, corn, run, jump and dance.
Contains the most useful signs for empowering communication with children on the Autism Spectrum.
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