Pregnancy Depression

Teacher’s Pet: Trying to make up for past mistakes, Grant works with his subs to improve their lives. He’s become good at rope play and is often invited to perform at clubs. Kayla is lost. She needs courage, self-confidence, and the ability to converse. For a passing drama grade, she finds herself center stage at a BDSM club under her old high school teacher’s hands. Turns out, she’s got a past eating away at her and she needs help working it out. Grant makes sure she does. Timeless: Life is all about finding meaning. For Leigh Anne, it means opening up her own agency, it means ...

The first 40 days after the birth of a child offer an essential and fleeting period of rest and recovery for the new mother. Based on author Heng Ou's own postpartum experience with zuo yuezi, a set period of “confinement”, in which a woman remains at home focusing on healing and bonding with her baby, The First Forty Days revives the lost art of caring for the mother after birth.

No matter how bad you feel right now, one thing's for sure: It will get better. Discover how you can accelerate the process. The recovery process is a personal journey, and no two recovery stories look the same. But there are things you can do to ease your symptoms and pave the way for a bright future with your strength restored and your emotions in check.

If you or someone you love is among the one in seven women stricken by PPD, you know how hard it is to get real help. In this definitive guide, postpartum experts Karen Kleiman and Valerie Davis Raskin offer compassionate support and solid advice on dealing with every aspect of PPD. Their proven self-help program, which can be used alone or with a support group or therapist, will help you monitor each phase of illness, recognize when you need professional help, cope with daily life, and recover with new strength and confidence.

This New York Times bestselling book—coauthored by a Nobel Prize Winner and a health psychologist—explores the aging process and how specific lifestyle changes related to telomeres can increase longevity. Have you wondered why some sixty-year-olds look and feel like forty-year-olds and why...

While postpartum depression has become a recognizable condition, this is the first book to treat root causes of mommy brain, baby blues, and other symptoms that leave mothers feeling exhausted. Any woman who has read What to Expect When You're Expecting needs a copy of The Postnatal Depletion...

He was a soldier running from his nature. Now, he's the prisoner of a predator who needs him to survive. Ten years of discipline. Ten years of black-market chemicals. As a former MARSOC sniper, Sergeant Robert Vance has built a fortress around the truth of his biology, suppressing the Omega scent that would make him a target. He is a soldier, a survivor, a man in control. But when his suppressants fail catastrophically, his deepest secret becomes a beacon in a dark, paranormal world. Hunted by a clandestine organization that sees him as a biological asset to be weaponized, Robert’s ...

The fourth book in Dawn Dais's popular Sh!t No One Tells You series offers honest and “laugh out loud” (Parents) advice for expectant parents Pregnancy is about more than scanning Pinterest for baby shower themes and registering for ironic onesies. Sometimes, the less flattering aspects of...

From an acclaimed journalist, this "eye opening and insightful" book shows how global cultures parent in community, sharing practical guidance for American parents on how to reimagine the way they raise their children (Iben Dissing Sandahl, author The Danish Way Of Parenting). Raising kids in...

Brooke Shields's emotional, heartfelt memoir about her experience with postpartum depression provides readers with inspiration and the knowledge that they're not alone. When Brooke Shields welcomed her newborn daughter, Rowan Francis, into the world, something unexpected followed—a crippling...

There's a first time for everything. First time playing quarters. First time spinning the bottle. First totally hot consensual truck hookup with a super-hot boy whose digits I forgot to get. First time getting pregnant. Surprised you with that one, didn't I? Know what's more fun than being the new girl for your senior year? Being the pregnant new girl. It isn't awesome. There is one upside, though - a boy named Leaf Leon.

What to read after What to Expect . . . . A badass, feminist, and personal deep-dive into the science and culture of pregnancy and early motherhood that debunks myths and dated assumptions, offering guidance and camaraderie to women navigating one of the biggest and most profound changes in...

Leiden Sie unter Schwangerschaftsdepression? Möchten Sie wieder normale Stimmungen und Gefühle haben? Fühlen Sie sich noch zusätzlich schlecht, weil Sie sich auf das Kind kaum freuen können? Lassen Sie sich helfen! Eine Schwangerschafts- oder Wochenbettdepression bekommen etwa 15 von 100 Müttern. Sie sind also nicht alleine. In dieser Zeit ist es besonders wichtig, dass Sie sich Hilfe holen, damit aus der vorübergehenden Depression keine dauerhafte wird.

By now you should know how to help your wife after childbirth. Still, here are some more tips sure to win you the husband of the year award. This book contains what every man should know when the woman he loves gives birth to his baby. Learn what you need to do before she brings the baby home from the hospital so you don't have to try to read her mind. Plan ahead for what she needs, be aware of postpartum depression, handle feeling neglected, be the awesome husband and father who protects and cares for his family. Whatever you do, now is the time to make sure you put your wife first. It is ...

No longer do women have to suffer in silence, question their symptoms, or try to hide their feelings. Here, listeners will see themselves in the narrative and understand that the devastating effects of prenatal and postpartum depression can be confirmed, treated, and managed, giving them hope for a brighter future.

A Special Box: A Story of the Great Depression She lost everything in one horrible night. Her dreams of a better life. Or did she just gain a life far better than she could have imagined? Helen knew there were men like her daddy in the world. Men who left their families behind to chase crazy ideas. Men who left bruises on their children so they would remember them while they were gone. She didn't plan to let a man like that to ruin her life. But Jared had. How could she have been so blind? She would never make that mistake again. Matt had spent most of his life feeling like a failure. He ...

A raw, funny, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before feeling like a grown up. When Meaghan O'Connell got accidentally pregnant in her twenties and decided to keep the baby, she realized that the book she needed -- a brutally honest, agenda-free reckoning with the emotional and...

Promote optimal fertility and start living a life of peace and joy…even before you have a baby in your arms! When the trauma, anxiety, and all-consuming desperation to have a baby take over, it’s difficult to know where to turn and how to mend your broken heart and spirit. Healing feels like a tall order, and finding peace, ease, and a sense of control seems nearly impossible. This book shows you how to achieve all of this and more…even before your bundle of joy arrives! Reduce the trauma, anxiety, consuming thoughts, and desperation of infertility. Create peace, ease, and miracles. ...

From an expert counselor, a compassionate, comprehensive guide to healing, conception, and pregnancy after loss of a baby. The challenges of having another pregnancy after loss can be extensive from a physical/medical standpoint alone, but no more so than the emotional and psychological hurdles...

"You can choose to be Happy. You can manage Baby Blues. You can Heal." Every pregnancy journey comes with a bundle of emotions. This short read is for every woman who are or will be navigating this beautiful, messy, transformative path. And for those who wish to provide support to your love ones, let this read provide you with insights to her journey of healing and rediscovery. I Choose to be Happy & Embrace Baby Blues includes: Define and identifying the spectrum of postpartum emotions Understand the biological, psychological, and social factors that contribute to postpartum emotional ...