Being a parent is a very challenging job, you have to deal with different obstacles along the way in raising your children. From birth to childhood to adulthood, us as parents guide our children in every step and give them unconditional love. The way we bring them up is a very crucial part of them as a person because we are the ones that shape what they are and what they will be.
There are a lot of techniques and ways we should learn in bringing up our children and there is a perfect book which will guide us through pregnancy and parenthood authored by no other than Heidi Murkoff. She is the author of the dubbed Pregnancy Bible which is an iconic New York Times Bestseller. Heidi started her books during her first pregnancy and expanded her brand online with WhatToExpect.com. It provides an interactive guide to parents. With Murkoff’s passion and commitment for mom’s and babies, What To Expect Foundation was then created. It is a non-profit organization which helps different families in their endeavors as an expectant parent.
Murkoff continues to produce different books to guide parents and one of her best seller book is What to expect when you’re expecting which now offers it fourth edition. It has been a New York Times Best seller book for 351 weeks already and counting. This book offers all the information and guide that each expectant mother and father needs, from preparation for pregnancy, to birth of the baby and up to the first few weeks with the new baby. The fourth edition includes practical advice for pregnant women, a detailed week-by-week fetal development section, an expanded chapter on pre-conception and how to handle pregnancy’s emotional ups and downs. The book is available now with a special offer price of $ 12.95 only.
As your child is growing up, there are a lot more of things to learn as parents that’s why What to Expect offers a book to guide us every parent in the first year of our children and it is What to Expect – The First Year. We all know that the first year of life of a child is very crucial and even us parents, we would like to keep track on every development in our child. The second edition of What to Expect the First Year provides us a guide on different developments in pediatric medicine including issues with New Born Screening to new born care, vitamins, vaccines for our children and different pediatric issues that we might encounter in the first year of our child. The good news is that you can now purchase this book for only $11. 95, a 25% off the regular price.
They say that 2 years old is the time where children start to have a grasp of the world around them, they are curious, they love to discover new things and it is as well called the “Terrible Two’s” Stage. As parents, we have to be very mindful of the actions and the way we discipline our child on this stage. That’s why in Heidi Murkoff’s book, What To Expect the Second Year, it gives us parents an overview on the developmental age of our children, the proper approaches and how to handle their behaviors on this specific stage.
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Since pregnancy is such a fulfilling experience for every woman, not being able to achieve it is very frustrating. Thankfully, science and technology have made it possible for couples to get pregnant even with fertility problems.