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Becoming A Grandmother: The definitive guide to the joys and challenges of grandmotherhood
For the millions of women who treasured her advice on childbirth and motherhood, Sheila Kitzinger now offers a no-nonsense, supportive, and enlightening guide to weathering the changes and savouring the pleasures of grandmotherhood.
With the sensitivity and honesty that have made her previous books into major best-sellers, Sheila Kitzinger explores the joys and the anxieties of one of life's most momentous passages. Drawing on interviews with women throughout the world, she discusses the images of grandmothers ingrained in myth and memory, and opens reader's eyes to the reality of being a grandparent today.
Both eager and reluctant grandmothers will appreciate her advice on defusing the family tensions that often erupt with the arrival of a new generation: establishing a good relationship with the new mother, whether a daughter or a daughter-in-law; finding satisfaction in one's new role; mastering “grandmother skills”; and most of all, enjoying grandchildren to the fullest.
The Year After Childbirth: Surviving and enjoying the first year of motherhood
Sheila Kitzinger, provides the information and comforting support every woman needs to survive the physically, emotionally and socially turbulent first year following the birth of a child. Time and again women say that they felt prepared for the birth, but not for what happened afterward. After all the attention that an expectant mother gets, she is often left to face this experience alone. There is no shortage of baby-care books, but this is the only authoritative mother-care book available.
For the new mother, the first twelve months are both a delight and on ordeal. The experiences she faces are at once disturbing, challenging, mundane and exciting. Whatever the birth was like, and however she feels about her baby, there are unexpected problems to be solved, questions to be answered, and feelings to be shared.
With over three hundred full-color photographs and drawings, here is everything a woman needs to know about this roller-coaster year: how her body changes physically and emotionally; tips about breastfeeding and nutrition; the developmental stages in her baby's life; how her partner is coping and their relationship is changing; sex; and finally, coming up for air after the first twelve months.
Kitzinger provides the mother of a newborn with a wealth of practical and down-to-earth advice to guide her through a time of exhaustion and elation, anxieties and achievements.
The New Pregnancy and Childbirth
This new edition of Sheila Kitzinger's classic guide to pregnancy, labour and early parenthood has been fully revised and expanded to take account of the latest medical developments as well as changes in women's attitudes and lifestyles.
The New Pregnancy and Childbirth is a complete, up-to-date manual of physical and emotional preparation for expectant parents.
•Conception •First signs of pregnancy •Screening tests: What are they? Should you have them? •Importance of diet and lifestyle in pregnancy •Pregnancy and the single mother •Giving birth at home •Latest methods of pain relief in labour •Latest obstetric interventions in birth •Latest research into the abilities of the newborn baby •Exercises for before and after birth
With an expanded pregnancy week-by-week diary and over forty new colour illustrations.
More women than ever are having babies in their late thirties and forties. Many of us have built successful careers, and we bring our experience and maturity to pregnancy and birth. We won't be fobbed off with empty reassurances, or `leave it to the doctor'.
In this book Sheila Kitzinger provides all the special information women over thirty five need when they're pregnant. How to talk with doctors and midwives, the tests you may be offered and their implications, the emotional highs and lows of having a baby at this age, how a baby may affect you partner and other members of the family.
Essential reading for any woman who's over thirty-five and pregnant, and for younger women who aren't yet ready for children but who want to weigh up the pros and cons and feel confident about having a baby later.
For new parents, a baby's persistent crying can be an exhausting and frustrating experience - and produce an overwhelming sense of guilt and anger.
Sheila Kitzinger draws on the experiences of hundreds of new mothers to offer practical and reassuring help for this very difficult and trying situation.
In The Crying Baby, Kitzinger discusses the nature of crying, often a baby's only way of communicating. She offers assistance in interpreting different types of crying - what they sound like and what they mean. She considers the most frequent causes of crying - loneliness, hunger, boredom, fatigue, overstimulation, and pain - and in each case provides suggestions for dealing with specific problems.
Recommending ways to satisfy your baby's needs, and avoid lashing out or suffering additional stress from advice given by well-meaning relatives, friends, or professionals, The Crying Baby will help you gain the self-confidence you need to enjoy fully the newest family member.
Ourselves as Mothers: The universal experience of motherhood
`To be a mother is to take on one of the most emotionally and intellectually demanding, exasperating, strenuous, anxiety-arousing and deeply satisfying tasks that any human being can undertake.' So says Sheila Kitzinger in this exciting, breakthrough book in which she explores those universal experiences: birth and motherhood. She writes with understanding of the problems facing mothers in the West today, about the pain of infertility, the struggles of working mothers, the myth of the `new man' and the underrating of housework, and ways in which women try to juggle with their identities as mothers and as achievers in a man's world.
Sheila Kitzinger looks closely at many aspects of motherhood, from preparing for pregnancy to the ritualization of hospital birth, from the mystique surrounding the bonds forged between mother and child to the changes in behaviour expected of women when they become mothers, and describes how concepts of motherhood and the ritual surrounding it differ between cultures. Citing examples from India to Jamaica, South Africa to Communist China, she highlights the role of women in different cultures and the varying ways in which images of mother hood are socially constructed.
Powerfully and sensitively written, Ourselves as Mothers is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging study of its kind, and an invaluable contribution to our knowledge of women and society. It is a book that reveals deep awareness of women's shared experiences across the world.
Homebirth and other Alternatives to Hospital
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The essential guide for every woman who wants to choose
carefully between birth in hospital, a small GP unit or her own home. A wise source of counsel and support for every woman who is considering her options in childbirth. Highly informative yet sensitively written, and supported by quotations and first-hand accounts of women's personal experiences of birth in and out of hospital. Of interest to all pregnant women as well as their supporters and caregivers in childbirth. Illustrated with specially commissioned photographs by Marcia May.
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Sheila Kitzinger explores the subject in a way that other books rarely aspire to - she places sex in the context of life and writes about women's feelings concerning their bodies and the many different dimensions of sexual experience, reflecting the way individual attitudes can change between adolescence and the later years.
Fully and sensitively illustrated with photographs and drawings, Woman's Experience of Sex focuses on every aspect of our lives, by ourselves and with those we love, in our grief and our happiness. For women - and lovers of women - this is one of the most important books of our time.