Motherhood category: 1477 books
by Nicolette Rubinsztein
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Can career mums have a fulfilling career and a happy family?
Director, strategy expert, actuary, former General Manager at the Commonwealth Bank and mother of three, Nicolette Rubinsztein experienced the tough journey of juggling motherhood and her career. Both were important to her, but the...
Gummi Bears Should Not Be Organic
And Other Opinions I Can't Back Up With Facts
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
From the popular mommy blogger and seasoned author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay and Naptime Is the New Happy Hour comes this hilarious book of honest, no-holds-barred musings on motherhood.
Stefanie Wilder-Taylor is officially fed up with the endless mommy fads, trends, studies, findings,...
Hot (Sweaty) Mamas: Five Secrets to Life as a Fit Mom
Five Secrets to Life as a Fit Mom
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Authors, moms, and fitness enthusiasts Kara Douglass Thom and Laurie Kocanda work to balance motherhood and fitness. They know other moms struggle to make exercise a priority in their lives because they speak with similarly minded women at seminars and on their blogs. It was from these conversations--and...
Let the Baby Drive
Navigating the Road of New Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
This insightful, deeply poignant and often hilarious narrative about the first years of motherhood inspires new mothers to follow their baby's cues and trust their own instincts. In letting her baby drive, the author didn't hand over the keys, but she let him navigate while she steered--and got to...
It's All About You
Live the Life You Crave
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Get more time, get more organized, get more money, get more energy, and get more joy out of your life.
Being a mother is amazing, although motherhood is not always easy. Getting the kids off to day care and school every weekday morning, juggling all of your to-dos while trying to fit in time...
Stay Home, Stay Happy
10 Secrets to Loving At-Home Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
A warm, inspiring, and practical handbook for at-home moms, by a television celebrity and mother of five.
National television personality and mother of five Rachel Campos-Duffy presents a new way of looking at stay at-home motherhood that will transform the way readers view their days, their...
A Better Woman
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Acclaimed novelist Susan Johnson found, at age thirty-five, that her desire to have a baby became overwhelming. She had no inkling what motherhood would cost -- or give -- her. But as she went on to experience pregnancy and birth, and their impact on her marriage, health, and heart, she recorded it...
Show Me the Way
A Memoir in Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Carl Jung said, "Children are driven, unconsciously, in a direction that is intended to compensate for everything that was left unfulfilled in the life of their parents." It is this very statement that haunts Jennifer Lauck, and inspires Show Me the Way, a marvelous book of honest, funny, and touching...
Black Milk
On the Conflicting Demands of Writing, Creativity, and Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
An acclaimed Turkish novelist's personal account of balancing a writer's life with a mother's life.
After the birth of her first child in 2006, Turkish writer Elif Shafek suffered from postpartum depression that triggered a profound personal crisis. Infused with guilt, anxiety, and bewilderment...
The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood
Wise and Witty Advice on Everything from Coping with Postpartum Moodswings to Salvaging Your Sex Life to Fitting into That Favorite Pair of Jeans
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
When it comes to your new baby, everyone from Dr. Spock to Dr. Brazleton has an armful of advice. But no one's delivering any tips on how you can care for yourself. Now, four-time delivery room veteran Vicki Iovine answers your questions, calms your fears, and cracks you up as only a girlfriend can,...
Literary Mama
Reading for the Maternally Inclined
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Becoming a mother takes more than the physical act of giving birth or completing an adoption: it takes birthing oneself as a mother through psychological, intellectual, and spiritual work that continues throughout life. Yet most women’s stories of personal growth after motherhood tend to remain...
Chocolate For a Mother's Heart
Inspiring Stories That Celebrate the Spirit of Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 1999
Moms Love Chocolate, Too!
Mothers do it all -- they teach, listen, guide, and protect. They shelter us from life's unexpected storms, nurture us into adulthood, and know just when to push us from the nest. Now the creator of the bestselling Chocolate series offers up a rich, soulful celebration of...
The Mother Letters
Sharing the Laughter, Joy, Struggles, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
After his wife Amber had given birth to three boys in three years, Seth Haines saw that she needed encouragement in the day-to-day drama and details of motherhood. Secretly collecting nearly six hundred wise, honest, and sometimes hilarious letters from other mothers across the world, Seth compiled...
Giving the Baby Back
finding motherhood through infertility, foster care and adoption
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
"By going into foster parenting hoping to adopt, I probably became a foster parent for the wrong reasons. But I continue to foster because I have come to understand how valuable the experience is for everyone involved"
Giving the Baby Back documents one young woman's single-minded...