Motherhood

Your Post-Baby Body
Lean Mommy: Bond with Your Baby and Get Fit with the Stroller Strides Program
by Lisa Druxman
You came out of pregnancy with a different body. Plus, the physical demands of motherhood take a real physical and mental toll. This chapter explains your new needs and how to emerge fitter and stronger than ever.

The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes
by Mary Eberstadt
The argument of the pages that follow could scarcely be more controversial to many contemporary readers. Of all the explosive subjects in America today, none is as cordoned off, as surrounded by rhetorical land mines, as the question of whether

Past, Present, Future
Every Mother Is a Daughter
by Perri Klass, M.D., Sheila Solomon Klass
Perri: This book is about mothers, but I would like to begin with my father. Since his death, sudden and unexpected, in 2001, I have been carrying on a variety of conversations with him. Some of these take place in my car when I am driving.

Welcome to the Idea Zone
The Family Manager's Everyday Survival Guide
by Kathy Peel
In the 'Seven Days a Week' section of this book, you'll find ideas for daily organization-from morning till night. In the 'House Works' section, you'll find dozens of ways to make and maintain your home as a place in which people like to live.

What Are Your Expectations?
Comeback Moms
by Monica Samuels, J. C. Conklin
In addition to analyzing why you're really quitting, think carefully about what your expectations are when you do quit. Make sure that you aren't expecting too much from the experience, because if you do and you're disappointed, your family will suffer.

A Mother's Guide to Health in Body, Mind, and Intimate Relationships
Mother Nurture
by Rick Hanson, Ph.D., Jan Hanson, M.S., L.Ac., Ricki Pollycove, M.D., M.H.S.
Mothers today juggle more tasks, work longer hours, and sleep less than their own mothers did. Yet the self-healing revolution has overlooked the most significant issue in the lives of some twenty million women: how to cope with the relentless, sometimes

The Stanford Survey
Getting It Right
by Laraine T. Zappert, Ph.D.
A common assumption among psychologists is that we all research our own neuroses, and I clearly am no exception. Since the 1980s at Stanford, the primary focus of both my clinical and research work has been the stresses inherent in the lives of working

Neither Here nor There
Mommy Wars
by Leslie Morgan Steiner
Some of us working moms find ourselves caught in a gray zone between work and home. We are working but have scaled back our ambitions. Our employers, our colleagues, even our husbands, may not comprehend what we've given up in order to have more time

Giver of Life
Black Mothers: Songs of Praise and Celebration
by Kristin Clark Taylor
Former USA Today columnist Kristin Clark Taylor has put together a love song to African American mothers. As she writes in the Introduction: 'to any mother who ever kissed a scraped knee; broke up a playground fight; spent part of the rent money

Introduction
Amy's Answering Machine
by Amy Borkowsky
A lot of people who are driven to the point of insanity report hearing voices — voices commanding them to stalk, maim, or even kill. Then there are people like you and me.

Interview: A Conversation With Karen Stabiner
My Girl: Adventures with a Teen in Training
by Karen Stabiner
Why have girls gotten such a bad rap over the last few years? How much truth is there to it? A surge of books about girls with various kinds of problems made us think that everyone was at risk, but they're based on interviews with girls who already suffer

Getting Ready to Fall
A Better Woman
by Susan Johnson
I was living in Paris then, and my sixtyish, childless painter friend Simone confirmed that this longing first struck the body. 'My own body did not need it,' she said in English, without sentiment or regret. 'You must find out if yours does.'

The Maternal Advantage
If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything
by Ann Crittenden
Psychologists have known for some time that the female brain is different from the male. Women tend to gather in more details of the world around them, and integrate that data into a more holistic picture of the world.

Entertaining and Men Behaving Badly at Dinner Parties
And One More Thing...; A Mother's Advice on Life, Love, and Lipstick
by Joan Caraganis Jakobson
When daughters strike out on their own, they usually know the basics: never answer the door without asking who's there, always write thank-you notes, don't wear a T-shirt that says 'Beer is Food' to a job interview.

Watching Star Trek with Dylan
Between Mothers and Sons
by Patricia Stevens
Upstairs on the bridge my husband, the first officer, is at his station cooking up that brand of boxed macaroni and cheese inexplicably yet consistently preferred by the human young, and slicing bananas under the steady gaze of his commanding officer.

The Beginning
Mothering Without A Map: The Search for the Good Mother Within
by Kathryn Black
The journey toward motherhood for any woman begins with conception. But whose? Did my maternal path begin when my first child was conceived? The casual answer to that question is yes.

Past, Present, Future, Part 2
Every Mother Is a Daughter
by Perri Klass, M.D., Sheila Solomon Klass
Sheila: You give me too much credit, Perr. I didn't invent myself. I stumbled upon myself. Desperation and fear started me as a child thinking that I had to escape my surroundings and drove me out of my parents' house and into my life.

Author Q&A
The Early Birds
by Jenny Minton
What advice would you pass on to mothers concerned about premature birth or IVF? Infertility, pregnancy, and prematurity are all complex medical conditions. No two cases of infertility are the same, women all experience pregnancy differently, and problems

Real Me
As Good as I Could Be
by Susan Cheever
What the baby books forgot to mention was the devastating effect of too much love. By the time my daughter was two years old, Me was worn and tattered from being caressed, his once gleaming fur had been fondled to a dull, tufted fabric, his button eyes

At A Glance: Demographics
Getting It Right
by Laraine T. Zappert, Ph.D.
Prior to the late 1970s, each graduating class at highly selective business and professional schools like Stanford included less than a handful of women. One of the women who graduated in the early 1970s recalled her admissions interview