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Your baby is unique, just like you, and this means that what works for one child might not work for another. The key lies in finding a balanced approach that encourages healthy eating. For many parents, baby-led weaning is the answer, but how can you make this method work for you without taking up hours of your day? With this easy-to-follow guide, you'll take the guesswork out of the weaning process. Rather than trying to follow strict rules that are unrealistic for the modern parent, you'll discover how to simplify and streamline the weaning process for you and your baby.

Whether you're nervous, exhilarated, or overwhelmed by the idea of motherhood, this is the perfect chance to learn what normal newborn behavior is really like and how best to care for yourself and your little one.

In Your Baby's Bottle-feeding Aversion, Rowena describes the various reasons babies display aversive feeding behavior, explains how the listener can identify the cause and describes effective solutions. Included are step-by-step instructions on how to resolve a behavioral feeding aversion that occurs as a result of being repeatedly pressured to feed—the most common of all reasons for babies to become averse to bottle-feeding. Your Baby's Bottle-feeding Aversion provides practical professional feeding advice that not only makes good sense, it works!

You’re excited to be a new mom…but you have no idea what to expect. You know it’s going to be a magical experience, but you’re feeling both exhilarated and scared. You’ve been looking forward to this moment for as long as you can remember, but now that it's drawing nearer, you’re getting nervous. Maybe you’ve looked through countless websites on motherhood but your research is becoming more overwhelming than helpful. Don’t worry: You are not alone!

Struggling to breastfeed? Discover what the real problem is, and how to overcome it with these nine secrets....

Say goodbye to uncertainty and frustration, and start thriving during the toddler years! Parenting a toddler is like navigating a ship through a stormy sea–both exhilarating and challenging. Every day, you watch them explore, grow, and learn; it can be magical, but it also comes with its own set of challenges. From heightened emotions to finicky eating, and bedtime battles to difficulties with sharing, toddlerhood can be one of the most challenging phases to parent.

Eli thinks he and his girlfriend, Victoria, are meant to be together—until she breaks up with him, leaving him heartbroken and confused. Determined to win her back, he goes along with the advice of his friends: become the sophisticated yet vulnerable ideal man. How? Study the best romantic heroes from everyone's favourite rom-com movies.

Written from the perspectives of both therapist and busy mom, Self-Care for New Moms features several eye-opening exercises, interviews from a village of experts (who also happen to be moms), and helpful interventions to help you get through the chronic depletion common to the postpartum year.

Millie Ward has been fired—again. She's tired of feeling like a failure, and she refuses to blame her ADHD the way her parents do every time she hits one of life's speed bumps. This time, she's going to let that speed bump actually slow her down, so she jumps at the chance to visit her best friend Quincy in California. And she wouldn't mind if that invitation also involved getting closer with Quincy's brother, Pete. When her best friends help her pack, they rediscover the little black dress they shared in college. Whatever comes during Millie's next chapter, this dress will help.

The ghost haunting Wisteria Gardens Antiques appears to be a charming and loving mother who can’t stand the thought of being separated from her son. But appearances can be deceiving. The Ghosties are moved by her expression of devotion, until they discover the truth. Her attachment to the real world has nothing to do with love. As the teen ghost hunters struggle with the case, Althea’s determination to stay threatens their very lives. Will Pekin, Scout, and Amber convince the ghost to move on before it's too late?

Pekin Dewlap hasn’t seen a ghost since she was 12. But she’d do anything to get them back. Starting a ghostbusting business with her two best friends Amber and Scout seems like the perfect way to accomplish her goal. Of course, playing with ghosts isn’t high on their wish list, so Pekin has to do some arm-twisting to get them on board.

A heartbroken ghost searches in vain for her baby. Pekin Dewlap and her best friends Scout and Amber are hired to help her spirit go into the light by the kindhearted homeowners who've grown fond of the crying ghost. The teens move into the house while their clients are on a cruise, and their first order of business is to find out the ghost's identity. A neighbor is able to provide the name of the house's last owner, and the story of how his wife died in childbirth. Now, armed with the ghost's name, along with those of her husband and baby daughter, it's time to set the ghost free.

Erin Baily never expected her Good Samaritan act would lead to a whirlwind of secrets and otherworldly adventures. When she saved the elderly Alice from muggers years earlier, little did she know that she'd inherit Alice's estate in picturesque Franklin, Tennessee. But when Erin steps into her new home, she's in for a shock—both the charming house and a mysterious cat hold secrets that will change her life forever.

Is there love after death? Laurel Palmer is about to find out. Thanks to a little shove by her husband, Laurel wakes up dead. And there’s no sign of that white light people are supposed to go into. Now a ghost stuck on earth, Laurel is determined to find out how she can get into heaven.

Author London Calloway is finished with her cheating boyfriend. One day while browsing the LA Times, she is curiously captivated by a picture of a handsome soldier. Staring at the photo, she ponders the differences between her rich playboy boyfriend and the soldier, who looks like a hero.