Getting Ready for Baby
Author: Hélène Tragos Stelian
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780811829410
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hélène Tragos Stelian
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780811829410
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Orna Donath
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2017-07-11
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1623171385
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be true—that women who have children might regret it. Drawing on years of research interviewing women from a variety of socioeconomic, educational, and professional backgrounds, sociologist Orna Donath treats regret as a feminist issue: as regret marks the road not taken, we need to consider whether alternative paths for women currently are blocked off. She asks that we pay attention to what is forbidden by rules governing motherhood, time, and emotion, including the cultural assumption that motherhood is a “natural” role for women—for the sake of all women, not just those who regret becoming mothers. If we are disturbed by the idea that a woman might regret becoming a mother, Donath says, our response should not be to silence and shame these women; rather, we need to ask honest and difficult questions about how society pushes women into motherhood and why those who reconsider it are still seen as a danger to the status quo. Groundbreaking, thoughtful, and provocative, this is an especially needed book in our current political climate, as women's reproductive rights continue to be at the forefront of national debates.
Author: Sharon Tjaden-Glass
Publisher:
Published: 2015-08-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780996332804
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Becoming Mother" tells the story of a woman becoming a mother. It is a reflective memoir that spans from pregnancy through the end of the first year postpartum. It follows the author as she resists, denies, copes with, and ultimately embraces her identity as a mother. This isn't a guide or a parenting book. Its goal isn't to convert you to one brand of motherhood or another. Instead, its goal is to show you what becoming a mother can be like. Without sarcasm. Without boasting or martyrdom. Just the plain, messy truth of what it's like for one to become two.
Author: Carolyn Conant Van Blarcom
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2022-08-21
Total Pages: 225
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Getting Ready to be a Mother: A Little Book of Information and Advice for the Young Woman Who is Looking Forward to Motherhood" by Carolyn Conant Van Blarcom is a helpful guide for soon-to-be mothers of the early 1900s. The book helped prepare aspiring parents for all the trials and tribulations that go along with parenthood to help them be as prepared as possible.
Author: Carolyn Conant Van Blarcom
Publisher:
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 268
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Publisher:
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 274
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Karen Kingsbury
Publisher: Tyndale House Pub
Published: 2014-01-31
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781414389875
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rhyming text encourages parents to savor not only their children's "firsts"--like first steps and first words--but the "lasts" as well.
Author: Carolyn Conant Van Blarcom
Publisher:
Published: 2023-08-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781835525227
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The young woman who is looking forward to motherhood is very often torn by sharply conflicting emotions. Her eagerness to have a baby and her happy anticipations may be dimmed by fears and misgivings, by superstitious and erroneous beliefs born of an ignorance that is little less than pathetic. A little information about physiological functions and an explanation of some of the facts of motherhood prove to be very reassuring to the mystified, uninformed young woman. There is, too, the immeasurably important question of the expectant mother's personal hygiene-the general scheme of her living in such a way as to promote her own and her baby's welfare-concerning which the average young woman is almost wholly ignorant. But the busy doctor, who gives of himself, impartially, to a large number of patients, often finds it difficult to discuss with each one, in a leisurely, reassuring way, the facts that he would like to have her grasp, the misinformation he would like to dispel and the small but influential details of her daily life that he wishes her to consider. It is just such simple information and such details of personal hygiene that I have attempted to set forth in this little book, with the hope that it may help the expectant mother intelligently and confidently to do her part in making ready for the baby; and to spend the period of her expectancy in a happy frame of mind, free from haunting anxieties. And I have given some space to a description of the course of the baby's development in order that his mother might have an abiding sense of his reality and his need of her protecting care from the very moment of his origin. In no sense does this book replace the doctor's care, for it is merely a composite of the advice about simple, everyday little things which the majority of obstetricians give to the average, normal woman. I have stressed the fact that the first need of both mother and baby, from the beginning of pregnancy, is supervision by a physician and that such advice as these pages offer is of value only as it forms a part of his personal care."
Author: Roy F. Baumeister
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780898625318
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Who among us has not at some point asked, what is the meaning of life?' In this extraordinary book, an eminent social scientist looks at the big picture and explores what empirical studies from diverse fields tell us about the human condition. MEANINGS OF LIFE draws together evidence from psychology, history, anthropology, and sociology, integrating copious research findings into a clear and conclusive discussion of how people attempt to make sense of their lives. In a lively and accessible style, emphasizing facts over theories, Baumeister explores why people desire meaning in their lives, how these meanings function, what forms they take, and what happens when life loses meaning. It is the most comprehensive examination of the topic to date.
Author: Carolyn Conant Van Blarcom
Publisher:
Published: 1947
Total Pages: 190
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