Birth Education

If you are planning a home birth or need an unassisted birthing plan, this is the audiobook for you. Get your body and mind prepared for a natural geared pregnancy and birth, where you make all the rules and decisions. This book covers how to do your own prenatal care, common discomforts in pregnancy, herbal and homeopathy uses, supplies you need for your birth, labor stages and how to manage them, birth affirmations, avoiding issues and complications, what to do for emergencies, postpartum care for mom and baby, how to register your baby with the state, and unassisted birth stories.

Respected Waldorf educator Rahima Baldwin Dancy explains the different stages of learning that children go through from birth to age six, giving you the wisdom and understanding to enrich your child's natural development in the right way at the right time. A trusted classic for over 20 years, this newly revised edition contains updated resources and additional information on discipline, early childhood programs, toilet training, using home life as curriculum, and more. From language and cognitive development to appropriate toys, Dancy speaks up for a rational approach to child-rearing.

Long before the era of the news anchor, the pundit, and the mini-cam, one man blazed a trail that thousands would follow. Reporting live from the streets and rooftops of London as Nazi war planes rained terror from the skies during the Battle of Britain, Edward R. Murrow brought the stark horror of war and the shock of breaking news events directly into American living rooms for the first time, and that was just the beginning.

What can parents do to help their youngest children in their task of self-formation? How does the Montessori method of hands-on learning and self-discovery relate to the youngest infants? This authoritative and accessible book answers these and many other questions. Based on Dr. Maria Montessori's instructions for raising infants, its comprehensive exploration of the first three years incorporates the furnishings and tools she created for the care and comfort of babies.

In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling science of the history of the earth - and a central plank of established Christian religion - on its head. He noticed that the rocks he was excavating were arranged in layers; more important, he could see quite clearly that the fossils found in one layer were very different from those found in another. And out of that realization came an epiphany.

On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the Director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c’est partie! The Mona Lisa, she’s gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting?

Breastfeeding Doesn't Have To Suck: A Practical Guide Comprehensive Guidance: Navigate from birth through early feeding challenges with expert advice and real-life experiences. Realistic Approach: Addressing the pressure and concerns faced by today's mothers with balanced insights. Expert Insight: Insights from lactation consultants and current research to inform your breastfeeding journey. Overcoming Challenges: Strategies to combat nipple damage, manage milk supply anxieties, and handle formula guilt. Practical Tips: From latch techniques to building a sustainable milk supply, practical ...

Paula Lillard, director of a Montessori school ranging in age from 18 months to 15 years, provides a clear and cogent introduction to the Montessori program for the elementary and later years. In detailed accounts, Lillard shows how children acquire the skills to answer their own questions, learn to manage freedom with responsibility, and maintain a high level of intellectual stimulation by using the Montessori method. This is an essential handbook for parents and teachers who have chosen the Montessori alternative for the older child.

📘 Raise Emotionally Intelligent Kids Without the Overwhelm A Real-Life Parenting Guide for Busy, (First-Time) Parents Who Want to Build Stronger Families Are you trying to connect with your kids—while juggling a packed schedule, endless tasks, and the pressure to “get it right”? Do you ever feel like parenting is harder than you imagined? Like you're constantly second-guessing yourself? Or that the advice you hear sounds great but never works in your real life? You’re not alone—and you’re not failing. Many loving, capable parents feel overwhelmed… but there’s a better way...

The family saga of Johann Gehring, who at sixteen years old, travels to America. He begins his new life in the prairies of Nebraska. There he learns to dig a well and exist amid nature’s foes: tornados, prairie fires, and freezing winters. Johann changes his name to John and finds love with Helena. Together they build a home and raise five independent children including the head-strong, Berta. Helena teaches her children to be as strong as the prairie cottonwood. She warns that someday they will need to bend in the wind and support each other. Berta vow to be as formidable as the ...

Everything you need to know to get started with astrology and how to use it to plan and predict your life.

If your class has 23 or more students, there's more than a 50% chance that two or more students share a birthday. How is this possible? Learn about probability with this simple exercise.

How do those in power exercise that power over a state's citizens? French thinker Michel Foucault's 1975 work Discipline and Punish looks to answer this question by investigating the prison system. Foucault does not believe that the modern-day system developed out of reformers' humanitarian concerns. He argues that prison both created and then became part of a bigger system of surveillance that extends throughout society.

"Women are the source of all creation. This book of women sharing their own words, is the true beauty of transitioning into the threshold of sacred motherhood." This is the fifth series of home birth stories from mothers all around the world... first hand experiences and memories, showing the beauty and differences of how birth can unfold. This book contains no birth photos. Freebirth, unassisted birthing, homebirth and natural birthing at home are covered.

First time in English: The King's Star The story of the legendary wise men from the East and the childhood of Jesus of Nazareth, narrated in an entertaining story based on the research of the author Abel Carvajal, with illustrations and maps of the time. Story extracted from the book DEATH WALKS BAREFOOT, by the same author, at the request of some readers. Attention: Experimental translation from Spanish to English by Microsoft Translator, revised and corrected by the author. Grammar errors are possible; thank you for your understanding and acceptance of this edition.

Should you really read to your baby? Can teaching a baby sign language boost IQ? Should you pipe classical music into the nursery? Dr. Jill Stamm translates the latest neuroscience findings into clear explanations and practical suggestions, demonstrating the importance of the simple ways you interact with your child every day. It isn't the right edutainment that nurtures an infant's brain. It is as simple as attention, bonding, and communication, and it's within every parent's ability to provide.

This comprehensive manual for understanding and preparing for the looming changes to reproductive rights law explains how to get the healthcare you need - by any means necessary. Activist and writer Robin Marty guides listeners through various worst-case scenarios of a post-Roe America and offers ways to fight back, including how to acquire financial support, how to use existing networks and create new ones, and how to, when required, work outside existing legal systems.

Read the story of Christ's birth from a while new vantage point...from the viewpoint of Heaven. The Birth is the third in the series The Chronicles of Heaven written by beloved storyteller Gene Edwards. The Birth has become the most popular rendering of the Bethlehem story. The drama begins in the eternals. Just before the birth of John the Baptist, the skies had turned to brass.

Consequences of the ongoing pandemic have seriously affected educational systems in the US and around the world. School closures and the opportunities or nightmares of remote learning have caused many parents to reconsider options for schooling their children. Jean Nunnally's memoir of her trials and triumphs in unschooling her two children from birth to college provides an enlightening insight into the innate learning ability of humans, showing how self-esteem, trust, and personal responsibility were preserved and strengthened for herself and her kids.

This new edition of a classic is the go-to reference for anyone concerned with the developmental progress of preschool children. It provides the knowledge required for understanding children's developmental progress with age and within each developmental domain. Including new sections on atypical development for each of the core domains of development and additional material on the development of attention and self-regulation, this fifth edition integrates findings from the latest research throughout.