Infant Development

Get your baby sleeping through the night, with the help of a leading baby and child sleep expert. Lucy Wolfe, a baby and child sleep expert, introduces the stay-and-support method for parents who want to help their babies sleep through the night. With sleep-shaping supports for newborns, top tips for toddlers, and advice for older children up to the age of six, Lucy's approach provides a gentle and emotionally considerate way to get your little one to sleep - without leaving them alone to cry, ensuring they feel loved, safe and secure at all times.

The first 12 weeks of a baby's life can be a challenge for any new parent. Tresillian's experienced, expert advice will guide you through with practical tips and real-life stories, set out in an accessible format for tired brains. With dedicated information for fathers and other caregivers, and key sections on coping with lockdowns and parenting in an age of social media, this is an audiobook packed with reassurance, guidance and ideas.

Tracking deep into our evolutionary history, anthropological science has begun to unravel one particular feature that sets us apart from the many, many animals that came before us—our uniquely long childhoods. Growing Up Human looks at how we have diverged from our ancestral roots to stay ‘forever young’—or at least what seems like forever—and how the evolution of childhood is a critical part of the human story.

Following on from the success of Your Baby, Your Birth, renowned birth and parenting Coach Hollie de Cruz applies her much-loved approach to the first year of motherhood. This empowering and thought-provoking book will guide you through the ever-changing landscape of your baby's first year, month by month, and will help you feel assured that you know your baby best.

Parenting with Focus is the ultimate guide to biblical child training. Featuring a unique technique called “Training Sessions", this practical guide will teach parents how to intentionally train their children’s behavior and their hearts. Also included in this well-researched book is the latest data on the impact of screen time on children and what parents can do to prevent harmful effects. Other topics include:

Did you just find out you are expecting twins? Are you wondering what raising twins is like? Do you want to know what you can expect during pregnancy, delivery, and taking your twins home? By the time you finish this audiobook, you will know what it is really like to have twins. Not what people want you to think or what some doctor will try to tell you to expect, but from one twin mom to another, the true day-to-day expectations and realities of twins.

A Harvard-trained obstetrician-gynecologist, a prominent blogger, and author of the classic How Your Baby Is Born delivers a timely, important, and sure to be headline-making exposé that shines a light on the natural parenting movement and the multimillion-dollar industry behind it.

Many women know, and research confirms, that having an experienced female birth companion who is neither a health professional nor a part of their social circle can have a tangible positive effect on their experience of childbirth. Why Doulas Matter is a comprehensive discussion of how a doula can offer expectant and new parents information and practical and emotional support to improve their experience with birth and early parenting.

The early years with baby and toddler will never be seamless but they shouldn't leave you gasping for air either. Less struggle and more joy in your first years as mom starts here. It's all solid advice. Sleep while the baby is sleeping. The dishes can wait. They grow up so fast. This too, shall pass. These clichés hint at a universal truth: Being a first-time mom is hard. You don't need to be told "it's just a season." You need a clear view of early motherhood and tools to help.

A book to equip parents with proven principles to have life-changing discussions with their kids about how Jesus changes lives, to explain the plan of salvation, and to lead a child in prayer to begin a relationship with Christ.

This audiobook is a must-have in order to give this indispensable training to our "baby citizens" so as to make them able to properly and hygienically handle their "private affairs". Going through this audiobook and adopting the practices contained in it will ensure that your child learns how to use the toilet with less stress while making less mess. You will save yourself a lot of time and energy, which of course will translate to a more relaxed mind, a cleaner home, and a happier and healthier family.

Positive Parenting for the Explosive Child provides tested and proven strategies based on scientific research and the experiences of a licensed foster mom in a quick and enjoyable listen. It has all you need to turn a meltdown into an opportunity for growth by understanding your child's emotions and having powerful and practical tools for effective discipline or empathy when necessary. If you're ready to reach your child, redirect emotions, turn a meltdown into an opportunity for growth, and calmly connect with them through love, try Positive Parenting for the Explosive Child!

Dass es der Schlaf des Babys in sich hat, merken frischgebackene Eltern schnell. Und schon geht es los: Braucht mein Kind ein Schlafprogramm, mehr Regelmäßigkeit, braucht es mehr dies, mehr das? Muss es ins eigene Bettchen oder darf es bei den Eltern unterschlüpfen? Dieser Ratgeber öffnet eine ganz neue Perspektive auf den Schlaf von Kindern. Das erfahrene Autorenteam räumt Mythen und Ängste rund um den Kinderschlaf von 0 bis 6 Jahren aus dem Weg und plädiert für eine entwicklungsgerechte, individuelle Wahrnehmung des Kindes - fernab von starren Regeln.

Tausende begeisterte Eltern verlassen sich darauf, was Nicola Schmidt zur "artgerechten" Kindererziehung schreibt. Was passiert im Nervensystem, im rasant wachsenden Körper, während der Hormongewitter, wenn aus Babys Kleinkinder werden? Was hat die Evolution ihnen an Entwicklungsaufgaben mitgegeben und warum bringt das Eltern manchmal zur Verzweiflung? Wo hilft im Alltag die Wissenschaft weiter und wo wirken immer noch Ammenmärchen in unseren Köpfen? Nicola Schmidt beantwortet unzählige brennende Fragen und zeigt praktische Tipps zur Kleinkindphase.

Are you obsessed with your baby's sleep? Do you feel weak because you can't leave him to cry himself to sleep? Do you need to relax more and enjoy being a parent? Parenting expert Pinky McKay offers a natural, intuitive approach to solving your little ones' sleep problems and gives practical tips on how to understand your baby's tired cues, create a safe sleeping environment, gently settle babies and toddlers and feed infants to encourage sleep.

Si no sabes qué hacer frente a ese desborde emocional y físico de tu hijo, este libro es lo que necesitas para entender las temidas pataletas. "Todos quieren entender qué hay detrás de las desregulaciones de los niños resolver el enigma de qué hacer para evitar que sucedan". Pataletas es un libro necesario, una invitación a sumergirnos en la vida emocional de los niños y niñas, para reconocer lo que sienten y lo que nos quieren decir cuando hacen esos temidos berrinches, uno de los motivos de mayor consulta entre madres y padres.

This book is a bundle of two books, one focusing on sleep training and the other one focusing on gentle discipline. Each book presents a set of powerful and efficient techniques, and ends with positive self-affirmations that will empower both parents and kids and help them along the way.

Hunter was a beautiful and vibrant little girl who was experiencing life to the fullest. At the tender age of three, she is suddenly struck with severe seizures, losing all of her motor skills. Struggling to find her the help she needed, it took 18 months to receive a diagnosis of late infantile Batten disease.

Since having her first child nine years ago, Sarah Ockwell-Smith has worked tirelessly to prepare parents for the birth of their child. An antenatal teacher and a doula, with a background in psychology, she founded an award-winning company Babycalm ™ with one aim in mind—to turn stressed-out new parents and crying babies into happier parents and calmer babies. BabyCalm will help you understand your baby and yourself as a new parent.

Es gibt Kinder, die wissen schon früh ganz genau, was sie wollen. Diesen selbstbestimmten Kindern ist es wichtig, dass man sie ernst nimmt. Den besonderen Bedürfnissen dieser Kinder gerecht zu werden, stellt Eltern nicht selten vor große Herausforderungen. Der renommierte Familientherapeut Jesper Juul plädiert für ein offenes und authentisches Miteinander anstelle von Machtkämpfen, Manipulation oder gar Kapitulation.