Motherhood

The Pros and Cons
But I Don't Feel Too Old to Be a Mommy! : The Complete Sourcebook for Starting (and Re-Starting) Motherhood Beyond 35 and After 40
by Doreen Nagle
This rough and tumble guidebook covers everything you need to know about starting a family in your mid-30s and beyond! You'll learn all about the risks, rewards, rumors, and resources ... from infertility to pregnancy ... surrogacy to adoption ... single

Work
Liz Lange's Maternity Style: How to Look Fabulous During the Most Fashion-Challenged Time
by Liz Lange
pregnancy style. To some this idea seems baffling, but to me it's always made perfect sense. Pregnant women are beautiful, and pregnancy is undoubtedly one of the happiest, sexiest, and most exciting times in a woman's life. In my mind, a pregnant woman

Breast Is Best! Breast-feeding for Success
The New Mom's Manual : Over 800 Tips and Advice from Hundreds of Moms for Baby's First Year
by Mary Jeanne Menna
Experts agree that breast milk is the best source of nutrition for baby, providing just the right amounts of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, as well as critical enzymes and antibodies that promote immunities to fight disease in your baby.

The Call to Connection
Remembering Mother, Finding Myself: A Journey of Love and Self-Acceptance
by Patricia Commins
The loss of a mother is one of the most traumatic experiences of a woman's life. At any age, a mother's death may leave a daughter with feelings of anger, abandonment and profound sadness that taint the way she views herself, her world

Pregnancy, Birth, and the Fourth Trimester
The 7 Stages of Motherhood: Making the Most of Your Life as a Mom
by Ann Pleshette Murphy
I was thirty-one when I became pregnant with our first child. From the moment my obstetrician gave us the good news, I began to fantasize about our baby, to picture myself as a mother. The hazy sonogram image I carried in my wallet, the fetal heartbeat

There Goes My Baby
It's Her Wedding But I'll Cry If I Want To: A Survival Guide for the Mother of the Bride
by Leslie Milk
Oh, my God, she's engaged! You shouldn't really be shocked by the news. She may not live at home or even in her hometown, but you've seen the signs. First his name started cropping up in conversations. Then she was starting sentences with 'Tim thinks'

Into Adolescent Territory
Ophelia's Mom : Loving and Letting Go of Your Adolescent Daughter
by Nina Shandler, Ed.D.
I hand her the keys and sit on the passenger side of the car. I think of her in the stroller, on the tricycle, in the bumper cars at the fair, and I see her now, ready to drive my car. She turns the key and I think of her playing with my keys before she

What's In It for Mother?
The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child
by Martha Sears, R. N., William Sears, M. D.
By providing milk from your breasts, you're guaranteeing the best nourishment for your baby. But breastfeeding is healthier not just for babies. It's healthier for mothers, too. During breastfeeding, you give your baby ideal nourishment and nurturing

Mothers and Daughters: The Bond That Wounds, the Bond That Heals
Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Creating a Legacy of Physical and Emotional Health
by Christiane Northrup, M.D.
The mother-daughter relationship is at the headwaters of every woman's health. Our bodies and our beliefs about them were formed in the soil of our mothers' emotions, beliefs, and behaviors.

Move Over, Mrs. Cleaver!
Baby Laughs: The Naked Truth About the First Year of Mommyhood
by Jenny McCarthy
In Baby Laughs Jenny McCarthy examines, with riotous candor, the full range of challenges that new mothers face, including: The humiliations of postnatal 'numbing spray,' Tucks medicated pads, and adult diapers; bleeding 'udders,' jelly belly, balding

My Stroller, Myself
From Here to Maternity: The Education of a Rookie Mom
by Beth Teitell
If there's one thing they drum into your head when your due date nears, it's this: you can't take your baby home from the hospital without a properly installed car seat. But as long as that's all set, the kid's yours, even if you prove irresponsible

Aria of the Matriarch
Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood
by Cecelie Berry
The Black grandmother is an icon of spirituality and endurance. She is both a quiet sufferer and an inexhaustible warrior. In this first section, her transcendent spirit is reflected in the experiences and reminiscences of these writers.

Introduction
Surviving Ophelia: Mothers Share Their Wisdom in Navigating the Tumultuous Teenage Years
by Cheryl Dellasega, Ph.D.
There are no pictures of me cuddling Ellen to my heart for the first time in the delivery room, but it doesn't matter. Every detail is clear in my mind: her perfect, round face, the fuzz of soft gold hair crowning the very top of her head, and her dazed d

Introduction
Mother of My Mother: The Intimate Bond Between Generations
by Hope Edelman
My grandmother lived in a town called Mount Vernon, and for most of my early childhood I thought that meant George Washington had once been her neighbor. There was a legitimate old-world feel to her street: gabled roofs, imposing oak trees, trellises, gaz

The Problem of Maternal Desire
Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life
by Daphne DeMarneffe
IT WOULD SEEM THAT EVERYTHING it is possible to say about motherhood in America has already been said. Beckoning us from every magazine rack, beaming out from every channel, is a solution or a revelation or a confession about mothering.

Chapter 1
Keeping Katherine : A Mother's Journey to Acceptance
by Susan Zimmermann
Our stories shape us. They give us our songs and our silence. When they are full of joy, they allow us to soar. When they are full of pain, they allow us to journey into the darkness of our souls where we meet ourselves, sometimes for the first time.

Managing Anger
Mommy Mantras
by Bethany E. Casarjian, Ph.D., Diane H. Dillon, Ph.D.
Until I had children, I didn't think I had a temper. Any kind of temper. Pestilence, minor car collisions, my groceries put into someone else's cart after I paid for them, were met with an almost beatific composure.

Chapter One
Sacred Bond: Black Men and Their Mothers
by Keith Michael Brown
Most mothers instinctively protect their children from harm. Depending on the level of crime and violence in their community, how a mother protects her children and how she teaches them to protect themselves can make the difference between her children's

Third Trimester
Love Works Like This: Travels Through a Pregnant Year
by Lauren Slater, Ph.D.
'Is even the most clenched heart capable of it?' Lauren Slater asks about love, in this original and illuminating book about how we discover what love truly is. Slater charts her own personal journey about having a child.

Leadership Begins at Home
If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything
by Ann Crittenden
Most mothers and fathers know in their bones that raising a child is the hardest job they've ever had. And, even if child-rearing is not that difficult for some, it is certainly comparable to dealing with adults, whether they are superiors, clients