Movement, play, and active exploration in the first five years of a child's life are essential to the development of his or her body and brain. Now "Active Baby, Healthy Brain" presents 135 massages, exercises, and activities that engage your child's love of play while also stimulating his or her brain development in multiple areas, including:
Balance
Cross-pattern movement
Visualization
Vestibular (inner ear) stimulation
Laterality
Fine and gross motor skills
Each activity is presented on its own page with step-by-step instructions, appealing illustrations, and illuminating sidebars. The detailed instructions tell you exactly how to do each activity, as well as how to incorporate toys, music, dance, and games. No single activity takes more than two minutes, and all that's required is ten minutes a day. More than thirty years in the making, "Active Baby, Healthy Brain" is an indispensable guide for everyone who is raising a child or who interacts with preschoolers.

Yoga for Happy Mums focuses on the real issues that mums of young children face: lack of sleep, low energy levels, stress, negative emotions (anxiety, guilt, depression, anger and irritability), fluctuating hormones, a weakened immune system, issues with body confidence and difficulties with addictions and relationships. Each chapter includes a discussion about how the particular issue applies to mums, a questionnaire so you can identify which are particularly relevant to you, some suggested points for reflection, guidance from the Kundalini Yoga tradition (including Top Tips such as dietary suggestions), a breathing practice, a physical Yoga set and a meditation. The book is fully illustrated, with easy-to-understand instructions so that you can practise at home. You do not need any previous experience, or to be particularly flexible or physically fit in order to practise these sets. Kundalini Yoga is a comprehensive form of Yoga that uses the breath, sound (mantra), postures and meditation. It is an ancient tradition which can empower you to meet the challenges of modern life with grace and equanimity. Unlike other forms of Yoga which were originally practiced in isolation, Kundalini Yoga has always been a householder's yoga, designed for people with the commitments of family and work.

The new mom's most trusted resource-now revised and updated to include the latest in nutrition and dietary concerns
This hands-on guide provides mothers with expert advice on losing weight and eating well, so you can feel good about your decision to nurse. Registered dietitian, professional nutritionist, and mother of two Eileen Behan shows you how to shed pounds safely and naturally while nourishing a happy, healthy baby. Learn what and how much to eat, what foods to avoid, the best exercises, plus ways to keep the pounds off after you stop breastfeeding. Get the latest on:
- vitamin and mineral recommendations from the frontlines of nutrition research
- the Glycemic Index-what it is and what it means to breastfeeding women
- fish safety-what you need to know about toxin levels to protect you and your baby
- low-carb diets-good or bad for breastfeeding moms?
- calcium-does it speed up weight loss?
- whole grains-the best ways to integrate this ultimate energy food into your diet
- nuts-high-protein food or fattening snack?
- childhood obesity-how to prevent harmful eating habits, from breastfeeding through toddler years
- sugar substitutes-which ones are best?
PLUS-All new crock-pot recipes, more Web-based resources, and a breakthrough eating plan that allows mothers to eat well, lose weight naturally, and have a happy nursing experience.

Offers a description of prenatal development explaining the technical aspects of conception and growth without losing the sense of wonder.

The Best Baby Names for Girls uses keyword information, our extensive catalog of baby names data, and metadata knowledge to create a perfect product for parents to be. Ideal for baby showers, gender reveals, and new moms and dads, this book will include extensive lists, trends, and ideas to find the right name for your little girl.

As rates of multiple births increase, birth professionals are discovering a distinct lack of resources to support parents who wish to breastfeed. Written in an accessible format, Breastfeeding Twins and Triplets is a source of information for parents, lactation consultants, birthing professionals and healthcare workers wishing to support multiple birth families. Stagg's evidence-based guide discusses the discovery of a multiple pregnancy, how families can prepare for breastfeeding, premature birth, hand expressing and pumping as well as transitioning premature babies onto the breast and moving away from tube feeds. Stagg's own experience of breastfeeding her twins and career as a breastfeeding counsellor and lactation consultant with the IBCLC (International Board-Certified Lactation Consultants) ensures this guide is filled with practical knowledge to support multiple birth families in their journey.

Birth doula and hypnobirthing coach Emma Armstrong, wants you to take time to connect to your brain, body and baby throughout your unique pregnancy journey.

Pregnancy is not just a life-making journey but a life-changing one too – but it can be all too easy to drift through its various stages. Instead, Emma encourages you to slow down and create chances to reflect on where you really are – in your brain, in your body and in your connection to your baby – at every stage along the way.

The Fearless Birth Journal is here to help you do just that.

Combining clear teaching with journal prompts and interactive elements throughout, this joyfully illustrated book is the perfect gift for you or a loved one during pregnancy.

Journeying through four key movements – Brain, Body, Birth and Baby & Beyond – through every trimester, this book will empower and equip you for the birth you want but also ensure you don’t miss (and later forget) a moment of this incredible time of life.

Obesity is becoming an increasing global healthcare challenge, and overweight expecting mothers are at risk of complications during their pregnancy. This unique clinical focused book covers evidence-based practices for obstetricians and assists them as they care for both the fetus as well as the mother-to-be if a critical circumstance develops during the pregnancy.

The Mindful Mother shows you how to experience your daily life as a mother with mindfulness. Helping you to be present, more positive and able to truly engage in your life-changing journey through pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood. When you become a mother, you fall deeply in love with your child yet may also struggle to put the pieces of your life back together again with a young baby in toe. The Mindful Mother helps you to keep both feet firmly on the ground as you experience the joys and sorrows of having a baby or small child, helping you to accept, resolve, and grow into your new mothering role. It explores how to approach everyday mothering scenarios and dilemmas from a more mindful and calm perspective, giving you the mindfulness tools to live with greater self-awareness, contentment and fulfilment. Using clear mindfulness practices and techniques based upon Buddhist and Yogic principles, you can understand how your mind works, so you can support it to work with you, rather than against you. So now being a mother becomes a spiritual journey of self-discovery and inner growth, as you get to understand and know yourself more deeply in the reflection of getting to know your child. The Mindful Mother guides you to truly connect to, appreciate and fully live in each moment you share with your children and family, to truly enjoy being the mother you are. Speaking with down-to-earth wisdom, insight and humour to women's hearts, The Mindful Mother throws you a lifeline to: * Prepare and connect to your mind and body during pregnancy * Empower yourself to have a positive experience of childbirth * Cope and thrive through common daily mothering issues* Find balance and harmony in your family relationships * Restore and raise your energy levels, vitality and resilience* Engage your mind to work with you, rather than against you* Create the happy family life that you truly want to live * Awaken the heart to greater love, contentment and fulfilment.

If you are a nursing mother, you need this book, to have a healthier and happier baby, and to have a closer bonding that will last you a lifetime. Mother's milk is the best and most natural food for a baby. Written exclusively for mothers by Dr Sapna Samant, a medical expert, this book is a one-stop medical guide that will help you to breast-feed successfully. From how to hold your baby while feeding, to how to generate more milk, from taking care of sore breasts to supplementing breast milk, here finally is a book that clears all the doubts your mind has voiced.

A reassuring, no-nonsense guide to caring for your body before, during and after giving birth. For too long, women have been told that debilitating conditions following pregnancy are normal, to be expected, and something to just put up with. Emma Brockwell is on a mission to change this. Having been through two difficult pregnancies herself, Emma combines her expertise as a specialist women's health physiotherapist with personal experience to create a warm, honest, informative and essential handbook to help pregnant women and new mums take control and care for their changing bodies. Find out how to: -Protect your pelvic floor -Heal effectively from birth - both vaginal deliveries and caesarean sections -Tackle common - and TREATABLE - post-birth problems -Exercise safely after birth Every woman has the right to be informed and this empowering guide gives you all the tools you need to look after your amazing body throughout motherhood.

A laugh-out-loud memoir about a free-spirited, commitment-phobic Brooklyn girl who, after a whirlwind romance, finds herself living in a rickety farmhouse, pregnant, and faced with five months of doctor-prescribed bed rest because of unusually large fibroids. Aileen Weintraub has been running away from commitment her entire life, hopping from one job and one relationship to the next. When her father suddenly dies, she flees her Jewish Brooklyn community for the wilds of the country, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a man who knows a lot about produce, tractors, and how to take a person down in one jiu-jitsu move. Within months of saying "I do" she's pregnant, life is on track, and then wham! Her doctor slaps a high-risk label on her uterus and sends her to bed for five months. As her husband's bucolic (and possibly haunted) farmhouse begins to collapse and her marriage starts to do the same, Weintraub finally confronts her grief for her father while fighting for the survival of her unborn baby. In her precarious situation, will she stay or will she once again run away from it all? Knocked Down is an emotionally charged, laugh-out-loud roller-coaster ride of survival and growth. It is a story about marriage, motherhood, and the risks we take.

This evidence-based guide for professionals covers essential information to help support parents breastfeeding past the first six months, including starting solids alongside breastfeeding, nursing manners, and common problems and challenges. The recommendation of breastfeeding beyond six months is well-established, but many birth professionals don't feel confident enough to support parents. This book, packed with case studies of real-life parents and practical tips, helps to educate healthcare professionals - as well as parents themselves - to feel better informed. Each chapter combines professional, research-led evidence with a parent-focused resource section for a fully integrative approach. Centring families and their personal journeys, Supporting Breastfeeding Past the First Six Months and Beyond is an invaluable guide for all lactation consultants, birthing professionals, healthcare workers and parents.

The classic book on home birth is now available in a new edition, with updated information on the safety of natural childbirth, new birthing stories, and the most recent statistics on births managed by The Farm Midwives. Included are stories of working with Amish women, shedding light on a different culture with a similar appreciation for natural childbirth. Ina May also provides new information about potentially dangerous techniques routinely used in hospitals during and after birth, as well as the latest findings about VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean). Improved instructions for handling breech births are also given. When the first edition of Spiritual Midwifery was published in 1976, it introduced an entire generation of young women to the possibility of home birth and breast feeding. It also breathed new life into the all-but-vanished field of midwifery.