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Here’s Why Becoming a Mother for the First Time Is so Physically Intense

By Annamarya Scaccia — 2017

Not to mention all those emotional adjustments...

Read on www.mother.ly

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The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality

This holistic guide offers practical advice to support women through postpartum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels—and provides women with a roadmap to this very important transition that can last from a few months to a few years.

Kimberly Ann Johnson

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The Motherly Guide to Becoming Mama: Redefining the Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum Journey

An inclusive, holistic, evidence-based guide for pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum journey―created for modern moms by the experts at the Motherly online community. Pregnancy isn’t just about creating a baby.

Jill Koziol, Liz Tenety, Diana Spalding

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Sex Before vs. After Kids

“We have five minutes until the kids get bored!”

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Year One—Surviving the First Year of Motherhood

Trigger Warning: This video contains content about postpartum depression and suicidal ideation. Year One is an award-winning documentary about identity, postpartum depression, and the first year of motherhood made by new mom and Brooklyn filmmaker Erin Bagwell.

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Mom | 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Baby

These are 10 things I wish I knew before I was a mom. Starting my journey as a mom.

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Brave New Mom: A Survival Guide for Mindfully Navigating Postpartum Motherhood

Moms are amazing! Becoming a mom is a radical, powerful change. It’s also really hard. New moms go through a lot, taking on a task that is lifelong, challenging, and battered by judgments and ideals of perfection. They are are often unacknowledged, untaught, and expected to be selfless.

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Self-Care for New Moms: Thriving Through Your Postpartum Year

Explore postpartum self-care strategies for eating, body image, emotions, nursing and milk production, sex, and so much more! The role of motherhood is one where women are continuously asked to focus on the needs of everyone else but themselves.

Corinne Crossley

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The First-Time Mom’s Guide to Raising Boys: Practical Advice for Your Son's Formative Years

Parenting a young boy can feel like total chaos, especially if he’s your first. His mind and body are changing, and so is his relationship with you.

Jennifer L. W. Fink

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She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood

After ten years of talking about having children, two years of trying (and failing) to conceive, and one shot of donor sperm for her partner, Amie Miller was about to become a mother. Or something like that. Over the next nine months, as her partner became the biological mom-to-be, Miller became . .

Amie Klempnauer Miller

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Don’t Give Me That Attitude! 24 Rude, Selfish, Insensitive Things Kids Do and How to Stop Them

What happened? You thought you were doing the best for your child and didn’t set out to raise a selfish, insensitive, spoiled kid.

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