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    A Is for Advice (The Reassuring Kind): Wisdom for Pregnancy
    A Is for Advice (The Reassuring Kind): Wisdom for Pregnancy
    A Is for Advice (The Reassuring Kind): Wisdom for Pregnancy
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    A Is for Advice (The Reassuring Kind): Wisdom for Pregnancy

    Written by Ilana Stanger-Ross

    Narrated by Ann Marie Gideon

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    About this audiobook

    Practical, reassuring, and beautifully written, A is for Advice provides a brief and compelling reflection on pregnancy, birth, and the early postpartum period for expectant mothers of all kinds--whether you prefer a water birth at home or a scheduled C-section in a hospital, whether you believe in painkillers or an all-natural labor, breast milk or formula, this book speaks to you and your pregancy. Written in the approachable and friendly tone of a best-friend blogger but informed by the insight of a Registered Midwife, A is for Advice seeks to comfort and inspire, providing realistic and soothing advice at a time when most women desperately seek out information.

    Through 26 lesson/letters of the alphabet (C is for Control; F is for Fear; W is for Water), A is for Advice offers practical and emotional insights into the often overwhelming transition to motherhood. Using a combination of humor, story-telling, research distillation, and personal reflection, A is for Advice speaks to concerns common to all women as they approach birth and motherhood. Eschewing the “birth wars” for a women-centered, feminist perspective, A is for Advice does not argue for any one type of birth experience, but rather empowers each woman to be her own advocate. If the book could be summed up in one line it would be, simply, “be gentle with yourself.”  Read it cover-to-cover or in the short bursts available to an expecting mom (each letter stands alone), this book offers a compelling call for well-informed, judgment-free, and forgiving birthing and mothering and is the ultimate babyshower gift for your best friend, sister, or daughter.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateMar 26, 2019
    ISBN9780062896735
    A Is for Advice (The Reassuring Kind): Wisdom for Pregnancy
    Author

    Ilana Stanger-Ross

    Ilana Stanger-Ross is a Registered Midwife and novelist based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, she received a BA at Barnard College, an MA in Fiction at Temple University, where she held their University Fellowship, and a Bachelors in Midwifery from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Her novel, SIMA’S UNDERGARMENTS FOR WOMEN, was published by Overlook Press in 2009.

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      After reading 100's of pregnancy book... I am so grateful I found this one. It is everything I needed and some things I didn't know I would. Highly recommended.