Cho, Catherine
Summary: "The riveting story of a mother who is separated from her newborn son and husband when committed to an involuntary psychiatric ward in New Jersey after a harrowing bout of postpartum psychosis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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Summary: "Blending cutting-edge research with engaging storytelling, The Breakthrough Years offers readers a paradigm-shifting comprehensive understanding of adolescence. Almost every adolescent has said to parents, "You JUST don't understand." In The Breakthrough Years, child development expert Ellen Galinsky explains why that is so often true. Galinsky's seven-year inquiry into the adolescent brain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2024
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Summary: "With more than 1.3 million video views each month and over fifty-two million total views on her YouTube channel, Howland's (a.k.a. Mama Natural) funny but informational videos have empowered millions of women to embrace natural pregnancy and parenting. Now Howland is turning to the page, offering up the first week-to-week natural pregnancy book for soon-to-be moms. For the last half-century,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 618.2 HOWLumanlan, Jen
Summary: "Research-based parenting educator Jen Lumanlan provides a simple yet revolutionary framework for rethinking our relationship with our children and getting everyone's needs met in the process. She provides an alternative, not just to spanking and verbal abuse, but to Time Outs, countdowns, and emotional manipulation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A complete guide with practical information and support for parents of children from newborn to three years old, by childcare experts at the renowned Mayo Clinic. Written by doctors who are also parents." -- amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mayo Clinic Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.122 MAYMeeker, Margaret J.
Summary: "Meg Meeker, M.D., acclaimed author of Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, now turns to an equally powerful relationship in the family: the one between mother and son. From the moment a mother holds her newborn son, his eyes tell her that she is his world. But often, as he grows up, the boy who needs her simultaneously pushes her away. Calling upon thirty years of experience as a pediatrician,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 MEEWaugh, Daisy.
Summary: "A bracing, hilarious manifesto for motherhood as it ought to be: spontaneous, loving, and just a little bit selfishPre-chewing toddler food. Flash cards for two-year-olds. Endless hours of school gatherings to sit through in smiling silence. How did motherhood--which even under the best circumstances comes with a million small costs and compromises--become a venue for female martyrdom, verging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 WAUWolfe, Taylor
Summary: "Birdie & Harlow is the story of a baby and a dog. But motherhood is never quite that simple. In Taylor Wolfe's case, it's a long, zigzagging and winding road. Meant to be a last-minute anniversary gift for her then boyfriend (and now husband), the highly-energetic and loud-mouthed Vizla puppy named Harlow turns out to be the best snap decision twenty-year-old Taylor ever makes--and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOLFE, TAYLOR WOLCorrigan, Kelly
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Middle Place comes a new memoir that examines the bond--sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine--between mothers and daughters. When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as "Your father's the glitter but I'm the glue." This meant nothing to Kelly, who left childhood sure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 994.4 CORKlein, Jessi
Summary: In Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Jessi Klein's second collection, she hilariously explodes the cultural myths and impossible expectations around motherhood and explores the humiliations, poignancies, and possibilities of midlife. Klein explores this stage of life in all its cruel ironies, joyous moments, and bittersweetness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KLEIN, JESSI KLESelvaratnam, Tanya.
Summary: Set aside the "mommy wars." This work is for the women who have been left out of the discussion until now. Selvaratnam shares her personal story and surveys the landscape for the women of her generation who delayed motherhood only to find that they couldn't have a child when they were ready. She discusses how her generation, seeking to be different from their mothers, "reap the benefits of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.39 SELMartin, Wednesday.
Summary: "Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most secretive and elite tribe. After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. Drawing on her background in anthropology and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTIN, WEDNESDAY MARSilverstone, Alicia
Summary: "The bestselling author of The Kind Diet offers natural solutions for a healthier and more vibrant approach to new motherhood. When did making babies get to be so hard? Infertility is on the rise globally, affecting as many as one in six couples. But instead of considering diet and lifestyle factors, doctors pump their patients full of expensive and invasive fertility treatments. Once pregnant,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.178 SILWorthington, Alli
Summary: "A guilt-free guide that strips away the myths you've believed about motherhood and offers you a new way to think--about your kids, yourself, and being the mom you've always wanted to be. A recent Barna study stated that 80 percent of mothers are stressed out, 70 percent are tired, and 56 percent are overcommitted. This book is for them: every mom who feels overwhelmed, worried, stressed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2023