May 2007: a snapshot at the office.
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I'm the author of numerous books on pregnancy and parenting, including Sleep Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler (2006); Mealtime Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler (2006); The Mother of All Pregnancy Books (2002); The Mother of All Baby Books (2002); The Mother of All Toddler Books (2004); The Mother of All Parenting Books (2004); The Mother of All Pregnancy Organizers (2004); Choosing Childcare for Dummies (2003); The Unofficial Guide to Having A Baby (2nd edition ...[more]
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Askville, Facebook, digital photography (http://www.flickr.com/pe ople/anndouglas/), reading, writing fiction, collecting vintage pregnancy and parenting books (the ones with ultra-bossy advice), thrift shop scouting with my ten-year-old, cottaging, collage/art, speaking at writering/parenting conferences, volunteering work, social justice.
Blogging @ Motherofallblogs.com and on Yahoo.ca's Lifestyle Channel.
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 Your baby, toddler, or preschooler's fascination with the storybook character Franklin the Turtle might lead you to believe that a turtle would be the ideal pet for your child. But before you head out to your local pet store to scoop up your very own Franklin, you might want to head this advice from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine: turtles and other reptiles should not be purchased as pets for children under the age of five.
Here's why. Turtles carry Salmonella bacteria on their outer skin and shell. If the person who is handling a turtle isn't meticulous about his or her hygiene, it is possible for that person to spread the Salmonella bacteria to other family members. A pet turtle will also contaminate all surfaces that it comes into contact with, and the turtles water dish or aquarium can, in turn, infect other household surfaces (e.g., the kitchen sink, the bathtub).
Anyone exposed to Salmonella bacteria is at risk of develop an illness called Salmonella, which is characterized by diarrhea (which can bloody), fever, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal cramps. Earlier this year, a four-week-old baby in the U.S. died as a result of Salmonella bacteria spread from the family's pet turtle.
If you are expecting a baby and you have a pet turtle at home, you should put your pet turtle up for adoption before your baby arrives. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "A family expecting a child should remove any pet reptile or amphibian from the home before the infant arrives." The CDC also stresses that childcare centers should avoid keeping reptiles or amphibians as pets. (See "STANDARD 3.043: Prohibited Pets")
Halloween can be downright scary — particularly when you stop to consider the amount of waste that gets generated for the sake of a couple of hours of fun.
But the holiday doesn't have to be all about generating a frightening amount of trash -- not if you and your kids plan ahead and come up with creative ways to celebrate a fun and eco-friendly green Halloween.
Becoming a mother is a life-changing event. Sure, it's a time of tremendous joy, but it can also be time when issues that you thought you'd dealt with years ago can suddenly boomerang back into your life again, whether you're ready or not.
Unresolved trauma is one of those issues. According to researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of Texas-Austin, mothers who are struggling with unresolved traumas are more likely to have difficulty adjusting to motherhood than other new moms.
The researchers -- who published their findings in the journal Development and Psychopathology last year -- found that mothers who had experienced an unresolved trauma were more likely
- to be frightened of their infants and
- to exhibit behaviors that were frightening to their infants (for example, sudden voice changes or movements).
This pattern of behavior -- which the researchers described as "frightened/frightening" behaviors -- has previously been linked to attachment problems in children (difficulty forming friendships, increased aggression, and anxiety or depression).
According to the researchers, in situations where one or both parents have a history of unresolved trauma, therapy combined with parenting classes may help to ease the transition to parenthood and help the new parents to feel more at peace with the events of the past. It’s not the traumatic events themselves that have an effect, but how those events have been integrated into the parents' lives.
In other words, you may not be able to rewrite the past, but you can certainly change your life moving forward.
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In a perfect world, we would all emerge from a picture-perfect childhood, find the ideal Ozzie and Harriet relationship (okay, maybe not that), experience complication-free pregnancies and textbook births, and welcome healthy babies who are as perfect to the rest of the world as they are to us. Those children would thrive in the world, never losing their way or stumbling for even a moment. Life would be more Walton-like than the sappiest-ever episode of The Waltons (if you could handle that).
But life doesn't always follow our hopes, dreams, or carefully put together birth plans and life blueprints. I try to speak to a variety of experiences in my books because there is nothing worse than feeling like a pregnancy or parenting "misfit" everywhere you turn. I've made my way across a lot of challenging pregnancy and parenting terrain, as many of you know, which is why I bring this perspective to everything I write. It's not just what I know. It's who I am.
All the best to you and your family (or family-to-be), regardless of where you are on your journey.
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Mealtime Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler and Preschooler, Part of The Mother of All Solutions series: The Ultimate No-Worry Approach for Each Age and Stage (Mother of All Solutions)
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #318,071 in BooksAverage Customer Review:  based on 3 reviews Publication Date: May 15, 2006
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Sleep Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler and Preschooler: The Ultimate No-Worry Approach for Each Age and Stage (Mother of All Solutions)
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #201,008 in BooksAverage Customer Review: based on 7 reviews Publication Date: May 5, 2006
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The Mother of All Pregnancy Books
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #450,635 in BooksAverage Customer Review: based on 152 reviews Publication Date: January 25, 2006
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Body Talk: The Straight Facts on Fitness, Nutrition, and Feeling Great About Yourself! (Girl Zone)
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The Mother of All Pregnancy Organizers (Mother of All)
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #72,392 in BooksAverage Customer Review:  based on 12 reviews Publication Date: July 2, 2004
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The Mother of All Parenting Books: An All-Canadian Guide to Raising a Happy, Healthy Child From Preschool Through The Preteens
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The Mother of All Parenting Books: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Happy, Healthy Child from Preschool through the Preteens (Mother of All)
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The Mother of All Toddler Books (Mother of All)
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #28,063 in BooksAverage Customer Review: based on 13 reviews Publication Date: April 9, 2004
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The Unofficial Guide to Having a Baby
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #221,140 in BooksAverage Customer Review: based on 82 reviews Publication Date: February 20, 2004
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Choosing Childcare for Dummies
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The Mother of All Toddler Books: An All-Canadian Guide to Your Child's Second and Third Years
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,277,121 in BooksAverage Customer Review:  based on 2 reviews Publication Date: April 11, 2003
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Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas: Women of the Great White North--A Celebration of Canadian Women
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #369,408 in BooksAverage Customer Review: based on 4 reviews Publication Date: January 25, 2003
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The Mother of All Baby Books: The Ultimate Guide to Your Baby's First Year (U.S. edition)
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #67,175 in BooksAverage Customer Review: based on 27 reviews Publication Date: June 1, 2002
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The Mother of All Pregnancy Books: The Ultimate Guide to Conception, Birth, and Everything In Between (U.S. Edition)
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,006 in BooksAverage Customer Review: based on 152 reviews Publication Date: January 1, 2002
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The Mother of All Baby Books: An All-Canadian Guide to Baby's First Year
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,796,184 in BooksAverage Customer Review: based on 7 reviews Publication Date: August 1, 2001
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Family Finance: The Essential Guide for Parents
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #779,608 in BooksAverage Customer Review:  based on 4 reviews Publication Date: August 1, 2001
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Trying Again: A Guide to Pregnancy After Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #34,161 in BooksAverage Customer Review: based on 31 reviews Publication Date: October 25, 2000
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The Mother of All Pregnancy Books: An All-Canadian Guide to Conception, Birth and Everything in Between
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #153,597 in BooksAverage Customer Review: based on 12 reviews Publication Date: October 17, 2000
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Before You Were Born: The Inside Story
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,145,975 in BooksAverage Customer Review: based on 2 reviews Publication Date: October 7, 2000
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,486,594 in BooksAverage Customer Review: based on 1 review Publication Date: March 1, 2000
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The Family Tree Detective: Cracking the Case of Your Family's Story
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,579,845 in BooksAverage Customer Review: based on 1 review Publication Date: March 1, 1999
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The Unofficial Guide to Childcare
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #645,964 in BooksAverage Customer Review: based on 11 reviews Publication Date: September 25, 1998
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Baby Science: How Babies Really Work!
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,235,080 in BooksAverage Customer Review: based on 5 reviews Publication Date: September 1, 1998
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A Mother's Storybook Wish for Her Child, October 4, 2007
SOMEDAY is a mother's heartfelt storybook wish for her child -- that her child will grow up healthy, experience great joys, and someday have a family of her own. It's also a wish that she will be lovingly remembered by her child ("Someday, a long time from now, your own hair will glow silver in the...
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Mealtime Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler and Preschooler, Part of The Mother of All Solutions series: The Ultimate No-Worry Approach for Each Age and Stage (Mother of All Solutions)
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