Annotation Demonstrates what lengths survivors of sexual abuse will go to in attempting to avoid dealing with the pain resulting from their sexual abuse.
Highly praised by expectant parents and childbirth educators alike, this comprehensive pregnancy reference (704 pages) is specifically designed for today’s hurried moms (and dads) for getting them through pregnancy and early baby care. Numerous navigation aides in the volume help parents to rapidly access critical information. The beautifully-illustrated, Your Pregnancy Week-by-Week section details every body change for both Mom and Baby for nine months with hundreds of timely coping tips. The Managing Your Pregnancy section includes: strategies for planning maternity leave; exercise guidelines; what to eat and what to avoid; safe and unsafe medications; and how to locate the best childcare and pediatricians. The illustrated Baby Gear Guide warns about unsafe products and offers solid, research-based facts for choosing the safest car seats, cribs, soft carriers, baby diapers and clothing. Your Guide to Giving Birth is the most up-to-date labor and birth resource available to parents today. Based on brand-new medical evidence, it helps families to realistically plan for labor and delivery, including detailed "you are there" descriptions for every major intervention and medication they’re likely to encounter -- such as epidurals, inductions and cesarean sections. You and Your Baby presents a complete guide for the first six months of life after birth. Theres mom-friendly advice for post-birth recovery, and baby-sensitive care strategies for feeding, bathing, diapering, soothing and helping a baby to sleep. The book’s Resource Guide lists over 100 of the best Internet sites for parents. The comprehensive Pregnancy Dictionary translates 200-plus pregnancy and medical terms into easy-to-understand lay language. "I have this book as well as What to Expect When Expecting, and I find this book to be so much better as it gives a week to week breakdown of what is happening to both mom and baby. I pick up this book each week as my pregnancy progresses and even though not every issue listed in each weeks summary necessarily happens to me, its good to know what I could expect. I would highly recommend this book to any expecting mom!" -- Cynthia, an expectant mother "If you are searching for one book for your pregnancy or for that one book to refer all of your expectant clients to, this book is by far the greatest achievement in childbirth education reading material! Sandy Jones and her daughter Marcie Jones have included absolutely everything an expectant woman and her family needs to know. This book should be on everyones recommended reading list"--Connie Livingston, BS, RN, FACCE (Dona), CCE, CLD, birthsource.com "Great Expectations is the perfect resource for moms-to-be. Sandy and Marcie Jones speak to the expectant mother of today in a friendly, approachable tone, and present their thorough information in a way thats great for both quick look-ups, and in-depth reading."--Stacia Ragolia, VP, Community & Parenting, iVillage.com "Accurate, comprehensive, empowering, and current. I see this as being the new Dr. Spock for pregnancy...This is definitely a book I will recommend to my clients who are planning a pregnancy or currently pregnant."--Cherie C. Binns, RN, BS, MSCN
How does a psychotherapist raise an abused, headstrong, 15-year-old foster child in a family of five? You will see what many foster families go through in order to heal the physical and mental damage in this remarkably revealing story. "This book will open the readers' minds and hearts to the kind of strength and love that is required to be a foster family and enable the 10th starfish to survive." -Julie M. Wilgen, Ph.D., Dept of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Delaware "It is awesome and inspiring...to witness the compassion, dedication and gentle love that Sandy Knauer relies on to begin to heal the foster children and the flawed, inadequate system that currently is their only support." -Patricia G. Dice, M.F.T., Structural Family Therapist "Being an adopted child myself, I can totally relate to the ups and downs in Annie's life and the feelings that go along with it. Also, being a parent to an adopted child, I have seen how far love, patience and guidance can take a child." -Cindy Dionisi, Middletown Counseling, Secretary "[Sandy] is an excellent therapist and is especially effective with sexually abused adolescents...it is through reading this book that I have come to know how truly exceptional she is as a person." -Leta Cooper, LCSW Sandra Knauer, LCSW, is a psychotherapist who has helped countless victims of child abuse throughout her career. She is the owner of Middletown Counseling in Middletown, Delaware, and currently lives with her family in nearby Townsend. Publisher's website: www.eloquentbooks.com/Every10thStarfish.htm
When Nicole's nightmare about Tony Mordano's murder shows up as an actual event on the 11 o'clock news, she wonders if her dream was real. But when Rosie Lawrence overhears Nicole talk about her dream, she goes to the police, hoping to convince them that Nicole is involved in the murder and collect the reward money. Can Nicole convince the police ¿ and herself ¿ of her innocence, and find the killer before she¿s convicted?
Annotation Demonstrates what lengths survivors of sexual abuse will go to in attempting to avoid dealing with the pain resulting from their sexual abuse.
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