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Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother

10 best books like Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother (Beth Ann Fennelly): Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood, The Mask of Motherhood: How Becoming a Mother Changes Our Lives and Why We Never Talk About It, The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year, Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives: A Holistic Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth, The Creative Family Manifesto: Encouraging Imagination and Nurturing Family Connections, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood, Connection Parenting: Parenting Through Connection Instead of Coercion, Through Love Instead of Fear, Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It, Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood, Writing the Australian Crawl

Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood
AuthorNaomi Wolf
ISBN0385497458
In The Beauty Myth the fearless Naomi Wolf revolutionized the way we think about beauty. In Misconceptions, she demythologizes motherhood and reveals the dangers of common assumptions about childbirth. With uncompromising honesty she describes how hormones eroded her sense of independence,...
The Mask of Motherhood: How Becoming a Mother Changes Our Lives and Why We Never Talk About It
AuthorSusan Maushart
ISBN0140291784
Becoming a mother is filled with the extremes of emotion --the highest highs and the lowest lows. But women are often reluctant to talk honestly about the experience for fear they'll be seen as bad mothers. With wit and candor, The Mask of Motherhood takes on the myths and the misinformation, helping...
The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year
AuthorLouise Erdrich
ISBN0060927011
“[Louise ] Erdrich holds up an articulate strength. Moving, memorable… [The Blue Jay’s Dance is] a book that breaks ground.”—Boston Sunday Globe

Fifteen years after its initial publication, New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich’s beloved memoir The Blue Jay’s...
Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives: A Holistic Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth
AuthorDeepak Chopra
ISBN0517702207
A much-needed antidote to our modern, assembly-line approach to childbirth, this new book is designed as a guide for all who wish to participate in the wondrous process of bringing new life into the world. Its ideas derive from two sources: the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda, with its emphasis on body, mind,...
The Creative Family Manifesto: Encouraging Imagination and Nurturing Family Connections
AuthorAmanda Blake Soule
ISBN1611805031
Spark and nurture your family's creativity--a guide for making creativity an intentional part of everyday life.


When you learn to awaken your family's creativity, wonderful things will happen: you'll make meaningful connections with your children in large and small ways; your children...
Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood
AuthorKaren Maezen Miller
ISBN1590302966
Combining humor, honesty, and plainspoken advice, Momma Zen distills the doubts and frustrations of parenting into vignettes of Zen wisdom.

Drawing on her experience as a first-time mother, and on her years of Zen meditation and study, Miller explores how the daily challenges of parenthood...
Connection Parenting: Parenting Through Connection Instead of Coercion, Through Love Instead of Fear
AuthorPam Leo
ISBN1932279172
"Connection Parenting" is based on author Pam Leo's seven week parenting series, "Meeting the Needs of Children," that she has been teaching for over sixteen years. The premise is that a strong parent-child bond is the key to children's optimal human development and our most effective parenting tool....
Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It
AuthorAndrea J. Buchanan
ISBN1580050824
According to Andrea Buchanan, "mother shock" is the state in which many new parents exist during those first confusing, chaotic, and often comical years of parenting. It is the clash between expectation and result, theory and reality; a twilight zone of 24-hour-a-day living where life is no longer...
Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood
AuthorSandra Steingraber
ISBN0425189996
As an ecologist, Sandra Steingraber spent her professional life observing how living things interact with their environments. Now, 38 and pregnant, she had become a habitat—for a population of one.

Having Faith is Steingraber's exploration of the intimate ecology of motherhood. Using...
Writing the Australian Crawl
AuthorWilliam Stafford
ISBN0472873008
I first read Writing the Australian Crawl in the mid-80s when I was working on an MFA degree. William Stafford, a native Kansan, has a deceptively easy-going approach to writing poetry. His first rule is that one must write. In his case, he writes every morning before anyone in his house awakes. Stafford,...
Becoming the Parent You Want To Be
AuthorLaura Davis
ISBN0553067508
Informative, inspiring, and enlightening, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be provides parents with the building blocks they need to discover their own parenting philosophy and develop effective parenting strategies.  Through in-depth information, practical suggestions, and many lively...
Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family
AuthorCatherine Newman
ISBN0143034774
To fifty thousand readers, Catherine Newman is the beloved author of Bringing Up Ben & Birdy, a weekly column on babycenter.com. Now in the delightfully candid, outlandishly funny Waiting for Birdy, Newman charts the year she anticipated the birth of her second child while also coping with the...
Rockabye: From Wild to Child
AuthorRebecca Woolf
ISBN1580052320
Rockabye is the lively memoir of a spontaneous young city-girl who becomes unexpectedly pregnant. That city-girl is Rebecca Woolf, who at 23, after the "holy shit, I'm pregnant" realization, decides to keep the baby, marry the boyfriend (in Vegas no less), and figure out how to wed her rock n' roll lifestyle...
Inconsolable: How I Threw My Mental Health Out With the Diapers
AuthorMarrit Ingman
ISBN1580051405
Marrit Ingman became a mother on February 27, 2002. She went crazy—also on February 27, 2002. Her journey began with a plate of carne guisada and led to an emergency cesarian, ankyloglossia, colic, gastroesphageal reflux, eczema, Zoloft, Paxil, peanut allergy, suicidal ideation, hepatitis,...
Work. Pump. Repeat.: The New Mom's Survival Guide to Breastfeeding and Going Back to Work
AuthorJessica Shortall
ISBN1419718703
The practical, relatable, and humorous guide to surviving the difficult, awkward, and rewarding job of being a breastfeeding, working mom.
                                       
Meet the frenemy of every working, breastfeeding mother:...
Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood
AuthorAnne Enright
ISBN0099437627
Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl and a boy. Making Babies, is the intimate, engaging, and very funny record of the journey from early pregnancy to age two. Written in dispatches, typed with a sleeping baby in the room, it has the rush of good news - full...
The Second Nine Months: One Woman Tells the Real Truth about Becoming a Mom. Finally.
AuthorVicki Glembocki
I want to walk out of Target and leave Blair there, wailing.... Nice people work at Target. Surely someone would take her home and care for her and buy her pretty things. So begins Vicki Glembocki’s brutally honest yet hilarious memoir of her agonizing transition into motherhood. Why agonizing? Because...
Guarding the Moon: A Mother's First Year
AuthorFrancesca Lia Block
ISBN0066213673
What I wanted Tori Amos's book to be, really. Mystical, practical, honest, yet artful. FLB is kind of like a less totally mean version of Tori anyway...
A reflection on the first year of motherhood of FLB. She's still her silly self and it is interesting to realize that she totally just wants to be Weetzie...
Love Works Like This: Moving from One Kind of Life to Another
AuthorLauren Slater
ISBN0375503765
“Is even the most clenched heart capable of it?” Lauren Slater asks about love, in this original, eloquent, and illuminating book about how we discover what love truly is. Slater, career-oriented and willfully autonomous, charts her own personal journey and decision-making process, starting...
The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love Work
AuthorTerrence Real
ISBN1400064015
In his extraordinary new book, Terrence Real, distinguished therapist and bestselling author, presents a long overdue message that women need to hear: You aren't crazy-you're right!
Women have changed in the last twenty-five years-they have become powerful, independent, self-confident,...
From the Hips: A Comprehensive, Open-Minded, Uncensored, Totally Honest Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, and Becoming a Parent
AuthorRebecca Odes
ISBN0307237087
Drawing on the experiences of hundreds of real parents and the expertise of doctors, midwives and other birth and baby pros, this indispensable resource is filled with the most accurate and up-to-date information about having and caring for a baby, including:

Decisions, Decisions:
A...
The Soul of Discipline: The Simplicity Parenting Approach to Warm, Firm, and Calm Guidance- From Toddlers to Teens
AuthorKim John Payne
ISBN0345548671
In this groundbreaking book, parenting expert and acclaimed author of the bestselling book Simplicity Parenting Kim John Payne, M.Ed., flips the script on children’s challenging or defiant behavior and lays out an elegantly simple plan to support parents in establishing loving, age-sensitive...
Your One-Year-Old: The Fun-Loving, Fussy 12-To 24-Month-Old
AuthorLouise Bates Ames
ISBN0440506727
The child from twelve to twenty-four months of age is a joy to have around—some of the time, that is. This child is growing at an incredible rate, learning to walk, learning to touch, learning to love, and learning to say “No!” for the first time. All of this can be quite a handful for the new parent.
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On the Outskirts of Normal: Forging a Family against the Grain
AuthorDebra Monroe
ISBN0870745603
Mired in debt and on the run from a series of broken homes, about-to-be-divorced Debra Monroe pulls up in front of a tumbledown cabin outside a small Texas town. Its isolation—miles from her teaching job in a neighboring city—feels right. She buys the house and ultimately doubles its size as she...
The Sleepeasy Solution: The Exhausted Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep from Birth to Age 5
AuthorJennifer Waldburger
ISBN0757305601
Even Hollywood's biggest stars face the same dilemma as other parents do: "How do I get my child to sleep?" As parents in the know are finding, whether they're on the red carpet or the soccer field, the answer is the same: The Sleepeasy Solution.

Psychotherapists and sleep specialists Jennifer...
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