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Perfect Gift Books for Adults
  Goddess Bookmarks by Amy Rose Designs Very cool bookmarks are pretty and handy to mark your place until next time. These come in three metal choices and five belly symbols choices. Because of the many variables please choose a first and second choice metal and belly symbol. These measure approximately 3 3/4" x 1 1/2"
 How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor, by Robert Mendelsohn, MD In this practical and informative guide, Dr. Mendelsohn maintains that parents rely too heavily on doctors and that they can take a more active role in deciding which ailments need medical attention. Covers everything from colds to skin ailments. PB
 Sleeping With Your Baby, A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping, by James McKenna, Ph.D James McKenna is the world's authority on cosleeping. This book belongs on every parent's bookshelf. From the back cover: "Sleeping with your baby has been the norm for almost all cultures through most of the ages. Yet in our modern world, the practice is fraught with questions and guilt. In Sleeping With Your Baby , a world-wide recognized cosleeping authority examines why simplistic recommendations against any and all forms of cosleeping are not only scientifically inappropriate, but dangerous and morally wrong". This book explains in plain language the benefits of cosleeping, with sections on minimizing hazards and risks, and well as how to cosleep successfully. PB
Breastfeeding Facts for Fathers Here's a great new addition from those smart folks at Platypus Media. Sometimes dads can feel a little bit left out of the newborn experience since mom and babe spend so much time together - literally attached at the breast. A supportive dad can make all the difference in the world for the breastfeeding family. This book will help as it's written especially for dads - from a male point of view and covers topics that men often think of, but might not ask. A great addition to your library.
Breastfeeding at a Glance. Facts, Figures, Now here at your fingertips is a wealth of information you can use in your breastfeeding advocacy ventures. Things like who exactly officially endorses breastfeeding and for how long, what is breastmilk worth, is it green, what are the breastfeeding rates worldwide, and what exactly is the true cost of formula? Breastfeeding's benefits for the child, the mother, and the community; in what states is breastfeeding a mother's legal right? All this can be found here in this great reference book. There is some fun trivia, myths and facts, and a current list of breastfeeding resources. This booklet should be in every zealot's backpack, purse, or diaper bag.
 Countdown to a Miracle: The Making of Me Calendar, by Julie Carr This is such a neat idea. Here is a small desktop calendar - it sits right side up - that takes you day by day through your pregnancy. From the last day of your menstrual cycle, when you're not even pregnant yet, through 40 weeks of pregnancy ( actually it goes through 41 weeks for those babies who like to sleep late ). Each day of the calendar tells what kind of growth and development is happening, or what you might be feeling. This little calendar is filled with a wealth of information. There is also room for notes that you might want to write down. You'll keep this calendar well past your pregnancy as a remembrance.
 Expecting a Miracle; A Guided Pregnancy Journal for the Mom-To-Be, by Motherly Way Enterprises This special edition of Expecting A Miracle Guided Pregnancy Journal which you can use in addition to the calendar shown above or all by itself. The journal will take you through your pregnancy month by month, prompting you with questions about each step of the 9 month way. There is plenty of room for your thoughts and notes on what you might want to ask your midwife or doctor. There are places for pictures and a keepsake pocket. This is a really lovely journal; very comprehensive and detailed. The questions prompted throughout can be answered regardless if you are planning a home, birthing center or hospital birth.
 Making Me: The Pregnancy Activity Book For My Big Brother or Sister, By Julie Carr "CONGRATULATIONS! You're going to be a big brother or sister! Become the biggest baby expert on the block with a pregnancy activity book designed especially for you!
Have fun doing your very own activities!
Includes something for you to do - coloring, counting, measuring, jumping, journaling, and more - every day for nine months".
I am really happy to see this great product for siblings-to-be. Julie has done a fantastic job covering just enough detail for anxious brothers and sisters, involving them in the learning process that is pregnancy. I would imagine that keeping an older sibling involved in the pregnancy and providing answers to those burning questions our children have for us, would promote a better bonding experience with new baby as well as mom and dad. This great hardcover book is 286 pages, and includes four colored pencils to help you write, color and draw. There is even a "Mighty Measuring Tape" included to track babies growth.
 Attachment Parenting, Instinctive Care For Your Baby And Young Child by Katie Allison Granju I'm proud to be able to offer Katie's book here at Attachments. This long awaited book is a practical guide to today's most talked-about nurturing style and explains how some of today's conventional childrearing advice can be detrimental. Backed by Dr. William Sears, Katie urges parents to trust their own instincts on matters of breastfeeding on cue, minimizing parent-baby separation, avoiding sleep training for infants, and always responding attentively to your babies cries. This is the book you'll want to give at every baby shower you attend. PB
 The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant If you like historical fiction I think you'll like this book based on characters from the Book of Genesis. The red tent is a place where woman come to gather during their cycles of menses, birth and postpartum and even in sickness and dying. This book is told in the voice of Dinah, daughter of Jacob, a woman who gets a small mention in the Book of Genesis. Here she has an entire book written about her and her mothers, whom are four sisters married to Jacob. "Like any sisters who live together and share a husband, my mothers and aunties spun a sticky web of loyalties and grudges," writes the author in the voice of Dinah. "They traded secrets like bracelets, and these were handed down to me, the only surviving girl. They told me things I was too young to hear. They held my face between their hands and made me swear to remember." In this fictional account, Dinah grows up to be a midwife following in the footsteps of her mother/aunt Rachel. A perfect gift to give to the woman in your life who has a passion for reading . I found this book hard to put down, and at its ending I wished that I could open the book once more and have the story start again where it had left off. PB BF HOME
 She is Born, a Celebration of Daughters, by Virginia Kroll I got goose bumps reading this book. As the mother of daughters it spoke to me. It's unusual in that I would consider it a children's book as well as an adult's book. My girls enjoyed its multi-cultural detail and I loved it for its message describing the different paths that girls can take through life. I think this would be a great baby shower gift for a mother, but I also know your child would enjoy it too. She is Born is a cross-cultural celebration of the birth of a girl, with gorgeous illustrations and a wealth of information from around the world. HB
 Mother & Child, Vision of Parenting From Indigenous Cultures, by Jan Reynolds I could fill up a whole page talking about this little book. The photographs are stunning, shot by the author as she travels to the edges of the earth to capture her story. She speaks of a mother's place in many cultures and how we, as mothers, are the most important teachers of humanity. This book
is pro-homebirth, pro-breastfeeding, pro-mother. I will never put this book away - I want my children to memorize its stories, its images. PB BF
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