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In this one-of-a-kind guide, dad, doula, and certified lactation counselor Brian Salmon and perinatal mental health and relationship expert Kirsten Brunner offer practical, modern-day survival tips for expectant dads and birth partners. Based on Salmon's Rocking Dads childbirth course, this book provides everything dads need to know about supporting their partner through labor, birth, breastfeeding, and beyond.--
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"From the author of You Knew Me When and When We Fall Three women. Three lives. Three secrets. On the surface, Sloane has the perfect life-an adoring husband, a precocious daughter, and enough financial security to be a stay-at-home mom. Still, she can't help but feel as though something-or someone-is missing.... Hillary has a successful career and a solid marriage. The only problem is her inability to conceive. And there's a very specific reason...
3) Heartbeat
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Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
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[2018]
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"Meet the mothers: Nathalie Kneller -- Nathalie's plan: to announce her pregnancy now that she's finally made it past twelve weeks! But just as she's about to deliver (so to speak) the big news to her family, her scene-stealing sister barfs all over the Thanksgiving centerpiece. Yup, Lyndi's pregnant too, swiping the spotlight once more ... Lyndi Kneller -- Lyndi's plan: finally get her life together! She's got a new apartment, new promotion, new...
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[2021]
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"From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following a New Mexican family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans....
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2016.
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"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury...
8) Lu
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Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 4
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English
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"Lu knows he can lead Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and the team to victory at the championships, but it might not be as easy as it seems. Suddenly there are hurdles in Lu's way--literally and not-so-literally--and Lu needs to figure out, fast, what winning the gold really means"--
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Handmaid's tale volume 1
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Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the...
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Be Prepared To Enjoy Motherhood!
This is the most comprehensive pregnancy manual on the market. Becoming a new mom can be scary. I mean, who is really, truly prepared when they become a parent for the first time? With this new book, you can be! Learn how you will need to change your priorities to become a mother and be the best one you can be, A new baby is a huge responsibility but you can and should enjoy the life you're bringing into the world!...
11) Red at the bone
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2019.
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"Two familes from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier,...
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Why you won't harm your baby, even if you had a glass of wine before you knew you were pregnant…
You can´t describe the happiness you felt the moment you got the positive results of your pregnancy test. But only a couple of hours later, you catch yourself worrying about everything that could go wrong.
Did I accidentally harm the baby before I knew I was pregnant?
Are the antibiotics I took going to hurt my baby?
Can exercise or stress at work cause...
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Widely regarded as an okay mom, Lisa Allen humorously highlights that bringing children into the world isn't all sunshine and roses. And that's fine! Adventures in Parenting: An Honest and Sardonic Look at the Beginning is the authentic storytelling of motherhood that is missing in today's world. You don't have to love being pregnant, it isn't fun. And acknowledging that doesn't make you a bad mother, it can make you laugh! Wind down with this short,...
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This book features advice and guidance from an expert that is leading in her field, as it includes the latest research and information. As accredited by the RCOB.
We are constantly bombarded with information about diet and fitness and how important this is to a healthy lifestyle, and there is an increasing focus on pregnancy as a phase of life when this really matters. Sifting out the evidence-based, accurate information can be a challenge, and that's...
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Are you looking for a natural pregnancy and birth book? If you are planning a home birth or need a freebirth or unassisted birthing plan, then Home Birth on Your Own Terms is the book for you.Do you dream of a healing, peaceful birth at home, but maybe you need a comprehensive guide and resources to make it happen? Almost all women can have a natural pregnancy and childbirth. Information is power. Knowing your body and what to expect during pregnancy...
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Journaling between Father and daughter can be a great way for girls - and dads - to talk about Menarche. Menarche only happens once, but most women will have hundreds of periods before their cycle stops during menopause. Help girls understand the benefits of plant-based period products, as well as specific period-related concerns like Birth Controls, Role of Men & Boys, Period Innovations and how to end period poverty.
If menstruation wasn't something...
17) Saving Grace
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Evie was pregnant and forced to give up the baby. But she can't just leave the child with strangers, especially when she thinks the baby is being neglected. With her boyfriend waiting in the truck, Evie snatches the baby and convinces him to drive her to Montreal where she plans to start a new life with her child. But when the baby won't eat and she and Justin argue, she ends up alone in a small town. As the baby becomes sicker, Evie must decide whether...
18) On the come up
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Carter family volume 3
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English
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Women's History Month - Young Adults
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When sixteen-year-old Bri, an aspiring rapper, pours her anger and frustration into her first song, she finds herself at the center of a controversy.
20) Freed A Life
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Rowan Slone is settling into her first semester at college. On her own for the first time, she's enjoying her work at the animal shelter, and she's finally feeling in control of her life. But the past is back. When her old boyfriend texts out of nowhere, Rowan starts to feel that familiar fear that her life is about to be turned upside down-and not in a good way. Her mother's new psychiatrist wants Rowan involved in her therapy even though Rowan wants...
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