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Might you and your baby both sleep better if you shared a bed? How old is too old for breastfeeding? What is a father's role in nurturing a newborn? How does early attachment foster a child's eventual independence? Dr. Bill and Martha Sears - the doctor-and-nurse, husband-and-wife team who coined the term "attachment parenting" - answer these and many more questions in this practical, inspiring guide. Attachment parenting is a style of parenting that encourages a strong early attachment and advocates parental responsiveness to babies' dependency needs.

Welcome to Shift! A podcast dedicated to exploring ideas, projects, practices, and policies that are reshaping the future of health care in Canada. Each episode delves into the dynamic world of health care innovation, featuring insightful discussions with leaders, thinkers, policymakers, researchers, and direct care practitioners who are driving change and finding solutions to enhance health and health care.My mission is to illuminate the challenges and celebrate the breakthroughs that are redefining Canadian health care. From ground-breaking technologies and policy reform to grassroots ...

The ability to heal is not reserved for a gifted few. Anyone aching to ease the suffering of a sick friend or loved one can learn to become unconditionally present to the sick person rather than to the disease. Through stories filled with compassion, wisdom, and gentle humor, Dr. Jeff Kane shows readers how to use mindful attention, therapeutic listening, and truthful speech to help others heal.

Drawing on her decades of experience in caring for pregnant women, mothers, and babies, Ina May Gaskin explores the health and psychological benefits of breastfeeding and gives you invaluable practical advice that will help you nurse your baby in the most fulfilling way possible. In this book you'll find answers to virtually every question you have on breastfeeding, including topics such as: the benefits of breastfeeding, pumps and other nursing products, medications, and nursing multiples.

What starts as loving, compassionate care becomes an isolating, stressful, never-ending race to get everything done. Inevitably, anger and resentment creep in—toward the person being cared for as well as other family members who don't pitch in . . . or both. Psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, and experienced family caregiver Loren Gelberg-Goff shows you exactly how to get back to having a life, feel that loving connection you thought was gone, stop arguing and get cooperation from your siblings and others, and discover other resources you can call upon to guarantee that much-needed "you time."

"In this work, I undertook to honor the mystery, magic, and the unseen elements of transforming core wounding because life is so much more than what can be quantified through linear science. It is also your multi-dimensionality, your humanity, and spirituality. Let us explore together." Monika...

If you are considering adoption or foster care or are already somewhere in this difficult and complicated process, you need trusted information from people who have been where you are. Mike and Kristin Berry have adopted eight children and cared for another 23 kids in their nine-year stint as foster parents. They aren't just experts. They have experienced every emotional high and low and encountered virtually every situation imaginable as parents. Now, they want to share what they've learned with you.

In this book, author and biologist Marcy Houle shares her personal journey of caring for her father, a surgeon, who developed Alzheimer's disease, and later her mother, who succumbed to other medical conditions.Like many children of aging parents, Marcy often felt powerless traveling this sad trajectory - watching them fall through the cracks of a fragmented and confusing healthcare system, where professionals often wrote off their symptoms as "just old age".

Welcome to the Experiencing Healthcare Podcast with Matt Staub. Our goal is to provide you with experiential healthcare information and leadership ideas that you can learn from.

Caregiving for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease or dementia is hard. It's hard whether you're caring for your spouse, parent, grandparent, sibling, other family member, or friend. And caring for a loved one with dementia can sometimes feel like a long, lonely journey. Six Steps to Managing Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia can help.

This podcast from California Fibroid Center explains uterine fibroids, adenomyosis, and advanced treatment options, including uterine fibroid embolization and other minimally invasive procedures. It highlights the California Fibroid Center’s comprehensive services, patient-centered care, and modern diagnostic approach focused on symptom relief, reduced recovery time, and non-surgical solutions. An informative resource for patients seeking trusted expertise in fibroid and adenomyosis treatment.

Dementia caregivers cope with repetitive questions, mood swings, lost personal space, and live with exhaustion, frustration, and anger. You may not know how to prepare. Dementia Home Care will help you maintain your humor and your emotional connection with your loved one longer.

"Die Oma hat a Schlagerl ghobt!" Der Kabarettist Martin Frank ist auf einem niederbayrischen Bauernhof aufgewachsen, und seine Großmutter ist seine wichtigste Bezugsperson. Als er gerade 19 ist, erleidet sie einen Schlaganfall und ist von heute auf morgen auf Pflege angewiesen – und Martin beschließt: Er wird sich um seine Oma kümmern. Fünf Jahre pflegt er sie, bis zu ihrem Tod, und berichtet nun über diese Zeit, die nicht nur traurig, sondern skurril-komisch, liebevoll und wichtig für ihn war.

Manchmal kommen sie plötzlich, meist aber schleichen die Veränderungen im Schneckentempo heran, bis sie eines Tages unübersehbar werden: Die Eltern sind älter geworden und brauchen Hilfe. Warum kann Mutter den Geldautomaten nicht mehr bedienen? Kann Vater wirklich noch Auto fahren? Ist diese Vergesslichkeit normal oder steckt dahinter eine Demenz?

Are you in an abusive or unhappy relationship? Do you try too hard to please your friends at the expense of your own needs and wants? Are you subservient to others and do you find yourself unable to become independent? Do you suffer from negative self-talk? These are all signs that your self-care regimen is deficient in some way. The Smart Girl's Guide to Self-Care tackles the common problems of effective self-care with practical suggestions for practices that will create a sustainable, lifelong self-care routine.

Contrary to popular belief, retirement homes are not the only option for our population’s aging members anymore. Adult Family Homes designed to allow senior citizens to live mostly independently with access to a variety of amenities, provide an alternative for individuals or couples who can no longer safely live on their own but don’t want to relegate themselves to assisted living facilities. Investment in this innovative category of senior living is a relatively new opportunity that many are not aware of.

Con un ingenio irónico y una sabiduría lograda con esfuerzo, la popular celebridad en línea y fundadora de TheChicSite.com, Rachel Hollis, ayuda a sus lectoras a liberarse de las mentiras que las mantienen alejadas de la vida exuberante y rebosante de alegría que deberían tener. Fundadora...

Every doctor is haunted by memories of difficult patients. People whom, despite all of their patience and persistence and the best communication, diagnostic and reasoning skills, they haven't helped. And anyone who has been a patient will tell you about encounters with difficult doctors, of relationships freighted with mutual bafflement, hostility and pain. Despite its vast resources, medicine is so often destined to fail people. Written by a practising GP, this book is told through stories of Dr Peter Dorward's hardest cases.

In his exceptionally thought-provoking and moving memoir, neurosurgeon Joseph D. Stern explores how personal loss influences the way physicians relate to patients and their families.

A remarkably frank, deeply moving, and inspiring memoir by Jai Pausch, whose husband, Randy, wrote the bestseller The Last Lecture while battling pancreatic cancer. "Jai is such a giver that she often forgets to take care of herself," Randy Pausch wrote about his wife. "Jai knows that...