Baby Development

Take the leap from terrified newbie to confident dad in your first year of fatherhood – even if diapers seem unsolvable and swaddles make you sweat! You're not alone. Fatherhood is like assembling an Ikea cupboard with no instructions – simple in theory, confusing in practice. You don’t need to be an expert to conquer fatherhood. All you need are the right tools and a touch of humor. What if there was a guide just for you – a first-time dad – with practical advice, ingenious baby hacks, and entertaining anecdotes? Well, that guide exists!

Für frischgebackene Eltern ist eines klar: Von Anfang an nur das Beste fürs Baby! Zum Glück hat Mutter Natur die wichtigsten Dinge schon gut eingerichtet, aber durch gezielte Förderung können Sie den perfekten Start ins Leben entscheidend mitgestalten und wie das ganz einfach gelingt, zeigt Ihnen dieser Ratgeber. Ein Spielzeug werfen, Bedürfnisse ausdrücken, Mamas Stimmung erkennen und noch vieles mehr: Was für uns längst selbstverständlich ist, ist in Wahrheit das Ergebnis langer und aufregender Entwicklung und die beginnt bei Ihrem Baby in der ersten Sekunde seines Lebens.

Start the first few months of your baby's life with confidence and learn how to encourage your baby to get good sleep with baby sleep expert Heidi Skudder. With 19 years of hands-on experience working with and empowering families, combined with a coaching and psychology background, alongside her own journey as a mother of two sons and a recently born daughter, she has helped thousands of babies get a good night's sleep.

Complete with tips for daily care, from changing a nappy to how to hold, feed and swaddle your baby, qualified Norland Nanny and maternity nurse Louenna Hood also provides five important routines for you to follow at different stages of your baby's first year, ensuring that they are happy and that you all get enough sleep.

When Miranda Ward and her husband decided to have a baby, they were young and optimistic. But five years, three miscarriages and one ectopic pregnancy later, she is still dealing with the ongoing aftermath of that decision and the shadow it's cast over her relationship to her partner, her body and her future. In this searing, lyrical and radically honest memoir, Ward charts her journey through the uncertain landscape of almost-motherhood, asking questions of geography on the most intimate scale.

A memoir culminating in a manifesto, Holding the Baby sets out to understand why we still treat early parenthood as an individual slog rather than a shared cultural responsibility. Tracing her own journey to the nadir of sleeplessness via social retreat and murderous rage, Frizzell draws on the latest research to explore: What effect does parenting have on your career? How can we make childcare affordable and fit for purpose? If parenting is so hard, why does anyone ever do it more than once?

Feed the Baby: An Inclusive Guide to Nursing, Bottle Feeding and Everything in Between is the first book from Victoria Facelli, the certified lactation consultant, who struggled to feed her child post-partum. With kindness and compassion, Facelli explains the science of infant anatomy and breastmilk, celebrates the medical marvels of formula and feeding tubes, and helps parents of any gender use every tool in the modern parent's arsenal to make their own feeding choices.

In a poll of 300 people that use these basic techniques from birth, 80 percent have their baby sleeping a full 12 hours at night before the age of six months! Join this experienced mom and start organizing your parenting chaos, one baby step at a time. This book is a no-fluff, to-the-point explanation of how this mom had her children sleeping through the night by the age of four months. It is described in six easy steps for you to follow so that you can have your baby sleeping through the night as well.

Babysitting is extremely fulfilling and challenging at the same time. As promised, this book has delved deep into the role of a babysitter in a child's life. Learn leadership skills to confidently care for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-aged children. Learn the differences between age groups, how to play age-appropriate games, change diapers, and the importance of following the parent's routines.

Unfortunately, babies do not come with instructions. They often cry, and you don’t know why. They like being cuddled one minute, and they hate it the next. They’re cute, but they’re also little tyrants who will occupy all of your partner’s attention in the very beginning. Today, millions of men are putting off fatherhood because they’re afraid. Are you one of these men?

How one baby blanket altered the course of this corporate trainer's life

Becoming a dad is like unlocking a new level in the game of life – exciting, challenging, and completely transformative. Every journey starts with a step, and this book is that step towards a more confident, joyful, and balanced fatherhood.

This guide, written and narrated by developmental psychologist Dr Suzanne Zeedyk, introduces listeners to attachment - babies' innate need to know that someone will share their fears and joys. It uses the analogy of "Sabre Tooth Tigers and Teddy Bears" to make attachment theory understandable for everyone. As one of the quotes from the audiobook puts it: "People frequently ask how come no one tells them about this stuff? This is an attempt to do just that". The guide is written in a style suited to both personal and professional interests.

Angelina Moehlmann invites listeners to journey with her on a raw and emotional path to motherhood through adoption. Faced with the challenges of infertility, unexpected setbacks, and the overwhelming uncertainty of the adoption process, Angelina never gave up on her dream of becoming a mother. In this heartwarming memoir, Angelina shares the struggles, tears, and ultimate triumph of her adoption story, capturing the moments that made her stronger along the way.

Wenn du das Hörbuch hörst, werden sicher nicht alle Schlafhilfen neu für dich sein. Gängige Hilfen sind nicht unbegründet weit verbreitet. Entscheidend ist jedoch, an die richtige Hilfe zu denken und sie sanft und effektiv anzuwenden. Deshalb möchte ich meine mehrfach bewährten, sanften Schlafhilfen—meine Schlafrezepte—mit allen Mamas und Papas teilen! Wie wertvoll wäre es gewesen, hätte ich dieses Wissen von Anfang an gehabt! Die Hoffnung ist immer groß, dass das eigene Baby gut schläft.

Everywhere you look, parents and children are busy with their smartphones and their laptops. The children are playing video games or using apps on their iPod. We are glued to the television set, We sleep with our phone on the nightstand. There is hardly a moment where some parents opt to put down our electronics or delay our chores with the intent to properly engage our kids.

Sleeping Like a Baby serves as the ultimate bedside companion for parents, packed with all the modern tools you need to build a stronger connection with your children and enable age-appropriate sleep for their optimum growth.

Een must-read voor iedereen die nieuwsgierig is naar de reis van de ziel. Dit boek gaat over de spirituele reis die jij als ouder met je baby aflegt, vanaf het moment dat je voor het eerst (on)bewust verbinding maakt met de ziel van je kindje tot 42 dagen na de geboorte. Je leert hoe en op welke manier je kunt communiceren met je (ongeboren) baby, hoe je je energiesysteem opent, je krijgt inzicht in jouw familiesysteem en je ontdekt hoe je de geboorte en de periode daarna samen bewust kunt ervaren, inclusief praktische tips.

Do you want the perfect name for your baby? This baby names audiobook could be the answer you're looking for. This audiobook helps you consider many factors in the naming process. It also provides categories of names and a glossary containing thousands of names with their meanings and origins and more.

You can start potty training your baby from the day they are born. We successfully did this with our three children from birth and this audiobook shows you how you can do it with yours. The audiobook gives you simple step-by-step instructions and also answers common questions parents have when starting out and progressing.