Very practical science based tips and guidelines and stories for moms and dads of baby girls. Including:
- Why you need a book just about girls. The very different health issues, genetic predisposition, hard wiring, neurological and biological development of girls, including unique strengths and weaknesses.
- How to understand the core nature of your girl and nourish it through problems of crying, fussing, eating, sleeping, attaching and other key issues during the first 12 months of life.
- Warm hearted stories about girls and tips from real moms, and a preview of what’s to come for girls as they become toddlers, preschool kids, pubescent and beyond.
Inhoudsopgave
Foreword vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: It’s a Baby Girl! 1
1 The Girl Inside You 11
2 Her First Year 31
3 Gazing into the Future: Toddler and Preschool Girls 61
4 A Baby Girl is a Family Affair! Circles of Support 97
Sources 113
Resources for Parents of Girls 129
The Gurian Institute 135
About the Authors 137
Index 139
Over de auteur
Stacie Bering, MD, is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist who has practiced and taught obstetrics and gynecology for twenty-five years in Spokane, Washington, where she skis and travels with her husband, Jeffry, and their grown children Cassie and Zack.
Adie Goldberg, ACSW, MEd, is a board-certified social worker who has been a psychiatric social worker at Woman Health, an OB-GYN practice, for twenty years and is certified at the Gurian Institute. She lives in Spokane, Washington, with her husband and youngest daughter, Chloe.
Michael Gurian is the founder of the Gurian Institute and author of Nurture the Nature, The Minds of Boys, The Wonder of Boys, Boys and Girls Learn Differently, and The Wonder of Girls. He lives in Spokane, Washington, with his wife and two daughters.
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