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American Baby

Author : Gabrielle Glaser
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735224692
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book American Baby written by Gabrielle Glaser and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other. “[T]his book about the past might foreshadow a coming shift in the future… ‘I don’t think any legislators in those states who are anti-abortion are actually thinking, “Oh, great, these single women are gonna raise more children.” No, their hope is that those children will be placed for adoption. But is that the reality? I doubt it.’”[says Glaser]” -Mother Jones During the Baby Boom in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to get and abortion was illegal. In 1961, sixteen-year-old Margaret Erle fell in love and became pregnant. Her enraged family sent her to a maternity home, where social workers threatened her with jail until she signed away her parental rights. Her son vanished, his whereabouts and new identity known only to an adoption agency that would never share the slightest detail about his fate. The adoption business was founded on secrecy and lies. American Baby lays out how a lucrative and exploitative industry removed children from their birth mothers and placed them with hopeful families, fabricating stories about infants' origins and destinations, then closing the door firmly between the parties forever. Adoption agencies and other organizations that purported to help pregnant women struck unethical deals with doctors and researchers for pseudoscientific "assessments," and shamed millions of women into surrendering their children. The identities of many who were adopted or who surrendered a child in the postwar decades are still locked in sealed files. Gabrielle Glaser dramatically illustrates in Margaret and David’s tale--one they share with millions of Americans—a story of loss, love, and the search for identity.

Achtung Baby

Author : Sara Zaske
Publisher : Picador USA
ISBN 13 : 1250160170
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Achtung Baby written by Sara Zaske and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through her own family's often funny experiences as well as interviews with other parents, teachers, and experts, Zaske shares the many unexpected parenting lessons she learned from living in Germany.

Raising Baby by the Book

Author : Julia Grant
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300173611
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Raising Baby by the Book written by Julia Grant and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-25 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nice Big American Baby

Author : Judy Budnitz
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000739697X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Nice Big American Baby written by Judy Budnitz and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Unforgettable and utterly affecting. You can’t turn the pages fast enough’ Dave Eggers

My Brown Baby

Author : Denene Millner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534476490
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book My Brown Baby written by Denene Millner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From noted parenting expert and New York Times bestselling author Denene Millner comes the definitive book about parenting African American children. For over a decade, national parenting expert and bestselling author Denene Millner has published thought-provoking, insightful, and wickedly funny commentary about motherhood on her critically acclaimed website, MyBrownBaby.com. The site, hailed a “must-read” by The New York Times, speaks to the experiences, joys, fears, and triumphs of African American motherhood. After publishing almost 2,000 posts aimed at lifting the voices of parents of color, Millner has now curated a collection of the website’s most important and insightful essays offering perspectives on issues from birthing while Black to negotiating discipline to preparing children for racism. Full of essays that readers of all backgrounds will find provocative, My Brown Baby acknowledges that there absolutely are issues that Black parents must deal with that white parents never have to confront if they’re not raising brown children. This book chronicles these differences with open arms, a lot of love, and the deep belief that though we may come from separate places and have different backgrounds, all parents want the same things for our families—and especially for our children.

The Happiest Baby on the Block

Author : Harvey Karp, M.D.
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307485803
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Happiest Baby on the Block written by Harvey Karp, M.D. and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for expecting parents who want to provide a soothing home for the newest member of their family, The Happiest Baby on the Block, the national bestseller by respected pediatrician and child development expert Dr. Harvey Karp, is a revolutionary method for calming a crying infant and promoting healthy sleep from day one. In perhaps the most important parenting book of the decade, Dr. Harvey Karp reveals an extraordinary treasure sought by parents for centuries --an automatic “off-switch” for their baby’s crying. No wonder pediatricians across the country are praising him and thousands of Los Angeles parents, from working moms to superstars like Madonna and Pierce Brosnan, have turned to him to learn the secrets for making babies happy. Never again will parents have to stand by helpless and frazzled while their poor baby cries and cries. Dr. Karp has found there IS a remedy for colic. “I share with parents techniques known only to the most gifted baby soothers throughout history …and I explain exactly how they work.” In a innovative and thought-provoking reevaluation of early infancy, Dr. Karp blends modern science and ancient wisdom to prove that newborns are not fully ready for the world when they are born. Through his research and experience, he has developed four basic principles that are crucial for understanding babies as well as improving their sleep and soothing their senses: ·The Missing Fourth Trimester: as odd as it may sound, one of the main reasons babies cry is because they are born three months too soon. ·The Calming Reflex: the automatic reset switch to stop crying of any baby in the first few months of life. ·The 5 “S’s”: the simple steps (swaddling, side/stomach position, shushing, swinging and sucking) that trigger the calming reflex. For centuries, parents have tried these methods only to fail because, as with a knee reflex, the calming reflex only works when it is triggered in precisely the right way. Unlike other books that merely list these techniques Dr. Karp teaches parents exactly how to do them, to guide cranky infants to calm and easy babies to serenity in minutes…and help them sleep longer too. ·The Cuddle Cure: the perfect mix the 5 “S’s” that can soothe even the most colicky of infants. In the book, Dr. Karp also explains: What is colic? Why do most babies get much more upset in the evening? How can a parent calm a baby--in mere minutes? Can babies be spoiled? When should a parent of a crying baby call the doctor? How can a parent get their baby to sleep a few hours longer? Even the most loving moms and dads sometimes feel pushed to the breaking point by their infant’s persistent cries. Coming to the rescue, however, Dr. Karp places in the hands of parents, grandparents, and all childcare givers the tools they need to be able to calm their babies almost as easily as…turning off a light. From the Hardcover edition.

The Baby Chase

Author : Leslie Morgan Steiner
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466834684
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Baby Chase written by Leslie Morgan Steiner and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Love comes a riveting new narrative about surrogate pregnancy from both sides of the equation—the parents and the gestational carrier. Once considered a desperate, even morally suspect option, surrogacy is now sweeping headlines, transforming the lives of celebrity mothers and fathers like Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicole Kidman and Elton John, and changing the face of motherhood and the American family. But how much do we really know about it? And is it really as easy and accessible – emotionally, financially, legally and physically – as magazines make it out to be? We often hear about successful outcomes, but little about the journey – about the precious hope that starts it all, the ups and downs of finding a surrogate, the heartache and obstacles, the risks and expenses at every step, or the unbelievable joy when years of determination pay off. In The Baby Chase, acclaimed writer Leslie Morgan Steiner weaves three stories together — of a nurse, a firefighter, and the Indian gestational carriers and doctors who helped them — to provide one intensely personal look at what makes surrogacy so controversial, fascinating, and in some cases, the only ray of hope for today's infertile parents-to-be. Rhonda Wile and her husband Gerry struggled for years with infertility. With perseverance that shocked everyone around them, they tried every procedure and option available – unsuccessfully – until they finally decided to hire a surrogate. While surrogacy was being touted as a miracle for hopeful parents, for Rhonda and Gerry, it seemed an impossible and unaffordable dream. Until they came across the beaming smile of a beautiful Indian woman on the internet... and, within a few short months, embarked on a journey that would take them deep into the emerging world of Indian carriers, international medical tourism, and the global surrogacy community. Moving, page-turning, and meticulously researched, this complex human story is paired with an examination of the issues—religious, legal, medical and emotional—that shapes surrogacy as a solution both imperfect and life-changing.

The African-American Baby Name Book

Author : Teresa Norman
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 9780425159392
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book The African-American Baby Name Book written by Teresa Norman and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive treasury of more than 10,000 African-American baby names. Names are a hallmark of our heritage, reflections of both the ethnic and religious roots of our past and our dreams for our childrens' future. This A-to-Z guide includes more than 10,000 names, ranging from African names to contemporary names to traditonal Muslim names and more. Also featured is advice on alternative spellings, information on origins and meanings, and tips on choosing a name that will help parents reflect the treasure of the child who owns it. • Alphabetically Listed for Easy Reference •

Our New Baby

Author : Pleasant T. Rowland
Publisher : Amer Girl Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780937295656
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book Our New Baby written by Pleasant T. Rowland and published by Amer Girl Pub. This book was released on 1990 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhyming text and illustrations that include a bottle that empties, a zipper that zips, and a toy that squeaks show what is involved in taking care of a baby.

War Baby/love Child

Author : Laura Kina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295992259
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book War Baby/love Child written by Laura Kina and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War Baby / Love Child examines hybrid Asian American identity through a collection of essays, artworks, and interviews at the intersection of critical mixed race studies and contemporary art. The book pairs artwork and interviews with 19 emerging, mid-career, and established mixed race/mixed heritage Asian American artists, including Li-lan and Kip Fulbeck, with scholarly essays exploring such topics as Vietnamese Amerasians, Korean transracial adoptions, and multiethnic Hawai'i. As an increasingly ethnically ambiguous Asian American generation is coming of age in an era of "optional identity," this collection brings together first-person perspectives and a wider scholarly context to shed light on changing Asian American cultures. This multiauthor volume features a foreward by Kent A. Ono, a co-authored preface and introductory essay by the editors, 19 original artist interviews conducted by the editors, and original essays from Wei Ming Dariotis and the contributing authors: Camilla Fojas, Stuart Gaffney, Rudy Guevarra, Jr., Eleana J. Kim, Richard Lou, Margo Machida, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Lori Pierce, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Ken Tanabe, and Wendy Thompson-Taiwo. Laura Kina is associate professor of art, media, and design at DePaul University. Wei Ming Dariotis is associate professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University. "War Baby / Love Child is an interesting, original, and innovative project that expands the field of Asian American studies by using visual art as a point of entry and analysis for the discipline." -Mark Johnson, editor of Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 "One of the strengths of this original volume is its holistic combination of interviews with premier fine artists along with the textual, historical, and scholarly context provided by established and emerging scholars in Asian American Studies." -Nitasha Sharma, author of Hip Hop Desis: South Americans, Blackness, and Global Race Consciousness

Bitty Baby Has a Tea Party

Author : Kirby Larson
Publisher : American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781609584221
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Bitty Baby Has a Tea Party written by Kirby Larson and published by American Girl Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wanting to share a tea party with a new next-door neighbor, a little girl and her doll, Bitty Baby, overcome their trepidation about making new friends with someone who is different by remembering the story about Bitty Baby and a hedgehog.

American Baby

Author : Gabrielle Glaser
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735224706
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book American Baby written by Gabrielle Glaser and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other. “[T]his book about the past might foreshadow a coming shift in the future… ‘I don’t think any legislators in those states who are anti-abortion are actually thinking, “Oh, great, these single women are gonna raise more children.” No, their hope is that those children will be placed for adoption. But is that the reality? I doubt it.’”[says Glaser]” -Mother Jones During the Baby Boom in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to get and abortion was illegal. In 1961, sixteen-year-old Margaret Erle fell in love and became pregnant. Her enraged family sent her to a maternity home, where social workers threatened her with jail until she signed away her parental rights. Her son vanished, his whereabouts and new identity known only to an adoption agency that would never share the slightest detail about his fate. The adoption business was founded on secrecy and lies. American Baby lays out how a lucrative and exploitative industry removed children from their birth mothers and placed them with hopeful families, fabricating stories about infants' origins and destinations, then closing the door firmly between the parties forever. Adoption agencies and other organizations that purported to help pregnant women struck unethical deals with doctors and researchers for pseudoscientific "assessments," and shamed millions of women into surrendering their children. The identities of many who were adopted or who surrendered a child in the postwar decades are still locked in sealed files. Gabrielle Glaser dramatically illustrates in Margaret and David’s tale--one they share with millions of Americans—a story of loss, love, and the search for identity.

Nice Big American Baby

Author : Judy Budnitz
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307427013
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Nice Big American Baby written by Judy Budnitz and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blazingly original, profoundly moving new work of fiction by a writer whose world–and imagination–knows no boundaries. “I don’t know what planet Judy Budnitz comes from,” said Newsweek on the publication of her fiction debut, Flying Leap, “but I’m happy to have her. Tremendous . . . funny, dark, adventurous, slanted, and enchanted.” These twelve astonishingly inventive stories–which take us into the heart of America and around the globe, from suburban backyards and swimming pools to war-torn streets and fallout shelters–are riveting, seductive, and impossible to forget. In “Flush,” a mammogram prompts a dark comedy of blurred identities between a mother and her two adult daughters. In “Elephant and Boy,” a surrogate mother-and-son bond, tinged with the erotic, is formed when a philanthropist attempts to “civilize” a young elephant handler. “Nadia” sounds the depths of a young woman’s complex feelings toward a friend’ s mail-order bride from Eastern Europe. “Preparedness”–an Orwellian tale in Technicolor–imagines rapture in the wake of imminent apocalypse. And in “Where We Come From,” a pregnant woman’s many failed attempts to cross the border do not lessen her resolve to give birth on U.S. soil to a “nice big American baby.” Magical, poignant, often transcendent, these are virtuoso modern fables that mine our stores of hidden urges, misunderstandings, and blind passions, inviting us on a voyage through places and times at once deeply familiar and wondrously strange.

An Innocent Man the Life and Times of an American Baby Boomer

Author : Gene Baumgaertner
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426951345
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book An Innocent Man the Life and Times of an American Baby Boomer written by Gene Baumgaertner and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come travel back to a different but vaguely familiar world. Journey to a time when inflation barely existed, gasoline was cheap, cars had big gas-guzzling engines, and people almost never locked their front doors. Written in the first person, An Innocent Man follows the life and time of Edgar Rice Baker from his childhood as he encounters all of the trappings, joys, and nuances of the Baby Boomer years. It was an age of innocence, when kids walked to school, when beer and liquor were the worst things your kids could get in to, and when getting a drivers license and a set of wheels (where the heater worked and the engine ran) were the most important first steps in transitioning to adulthood. If you are over fifty, do you remember the good old days? Those were happy days of wine and roses, when life was simpler, and we all were more innocent. An Innocent Man transports us back to the fifties and sixtiesfor a nostalgic walk down the primrose lane.

Staying Alive—The Life and Times of an American Baby Boomer Part 2

Author : Gene Baumgaertner
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466902574
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Staying Alive—The Life and Times of an American Baby Boomer Part 2 written by Gene Baumgaertner and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staying Alive is the sequel to An Innocent ManThe Life and Times of an American Baby Boomer. The first book explored growing up in the 1950s and 1960s. Staying Alive continues the adventure into the serendipitous 1970s. The same characters we enjoyed so much in An Innocent Man return and try to take the great leap from late adolescence into early adulthood. Follow our baby boomers as they struggle to survive college, avoid or cope with the Vietnam War, and eventually join mainstream society. Watch these reckless students try to turn themselves into budding professionals; struggle with marriage, child-rearing, and divorce; and try to survive the ups and downs of the volatile 1970s. Totally submerged in their own lives and interests, they still cant avoid the impacts of multiple wars, two oil embargos, rampant inflation, on-again off-again recession, and other world and life-changing events. Follow Ed Bakers efforts to just keep staying alive, John Fitzmorriss transition from Vietnam to a normal life, Johnny Latellas desire to keep scoringon and off the athletic field, Jerry Prinzs simple desire to succeed in business, and Jack Fitzhughs tenacious struggle to turn bad luck into good. Will they survive the gyrating 1970s, and can they do it alone, or does friendship really make a difference?

Nice Big American Baby

Author : Judy Budnitz
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nice Big American Baby written by Judy Budnitz and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Budnitz's 12 blazingly original new stories--riveting, seductive, and impossible to forget--take readers from suburban backyards and swimming pools to war-torn streets and fallout shelters.

My American Baby

Author : Rose Rossner
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1728241030
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book My American Baby written by Rose Rossner and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make every day a Fourth of July celebration with this adorable board book for babies and toddlers! Wake up, American Baby, and welcome to another fun day in the USA! Enjoy eating popcorn at a baseball game, munching on hot dogs at a backyard picnic, waving the flag, and so much more! From saying the pledge to watching fireworks, celebrate all the fun activities that you and your baby do together to honor America. Celebrate all the places where you and Baby learn, laugh, love, and play! From waking in the morning to saying Good Night, take a fun journey through all the places and activities you and Baby love to share. For babies and toddlers age 0-3, these sturdy board books are built for read-a-longs, family vacations, travel, and precious together time. Adorable baby animal illustrations and delightful rhyming text help build listening and memory skills. A sweet Independence Day or Memorial Day gift for boys and girls. Perfect for baby showers, new parents, birthdays, and Valentine's Day. Also a great Easter basket and Christmas stocking stuffer.