This book takes a look at what The Invisible Job actually entails, from the perspective of a mother with a full-time paid job and a stay-at-home mother, and also explores the experiences and attitudes of many other women interviewed by the author. It examines how to prevent or address imbalance in The Invisible Job in your own relationship as well as in society as a whole.
As an adoptive mother, Mari Gallagher charts her personal experience of intercountry adoption in Russia and Kazakhstan, also a journey of personal growth, introspection, and reflection, in "Becoming a Mother". With a mix of personal insight, views and theories from psychologists, authors, adoptive parents and adoptees, both in Ireland and abroad.
A guide to childbirth. It explains why the natural birthing process, when left to its own devices, can proceed so beautifully on its own. It teaches you: how to create a safe, comfortable environment for birth in any setting; tips for maximising your chances of an unmedicated labour and birth; and, the risks of anaesthesia and caesareans.
An illustrated storybook about a girl named Mia who has experienced the death of her mother. Covering all stages of grief, it is perfect for reading with bereaved children aged 5-9 as a way to help them overcome their difficult feelings. It includes in-built strategies for coping with grief and answers many questions that children have about death.
Award-winning broadcasters Fi Glover and Jane Garvey don't claim to have all the answers (what was the question?), but in these hilarious and perceptive essays they take modern life by its elasticated waist and give it a brisk going over with a stiff brush.