The New Parent's Survival Guide: Staying Sane and Connected in the First Year

di Spencer Westel (Autore)

Spencer Westel, 2025

The First Year of Parenthood: Honest, Practical Guidance When You Need It Most Welcome to the most transformative, exhausting, and beautiful year of your life. If you're reading this, you're either expecting a baby and trying to prepare for the unknown, or you're already in the trenches, surviving on two hours of sleep and wondering if you'll ever feel like yourself again. The New Parent's Survival Guide isn't another book promising perfect parenting or unrealistic solutions. This is your companion for the real first year—the one filled with incredible love alongside crushing exhaustion, the one where you'll experience the highest highs and the most depleting lows, often within the same hour. What Makes This Book Different: Unlike typical parenting manuals focused solely on baby care techniques, Spencer Westel addresses what new parents actually struggle with: maintaining your identity when you're suddenly "Mom" or "Dad" before anything else, keeping your relationship alive when you're both running on empty, asking for help when everything in you wants to prove you can do it alone, and managing the emotional intensity that no one fully prepares you for. Inside You'll Find: Realistic strategies for surviving the initial shock of bringing baby home How to establish flexible routines without losing your mind Managing postpartum emotions, depression, and anxiety (for all parents) Protecting your relationship during the most stressful year Practical self-care that actually fits into a new parent's life Navigating the return to work and childcare decisions Maintaining your identity beyond parenthood What to do when things go seriously wrong Guidance for each phase from newborn chaos to approaching the one-year milestone For Every Kind of Parent: Whether you're breastfeeding or bottle-feeding, co-sleeping or sleep training, working or staying home, partnered or single, this book meets you where you are. You'll find validation for your choices and support for your struggles, without judgment about the "right" way to parent. The first year will test you in ways you never anticipated. It will challenge your patience, your relationship, your sense of self, and your ability to function on minimal sleep. But you can survive it—even thrive through it—with honest guidance, practical strategies, and the reassurance that what you're feeling is completely normal. Perfect for baby showers, new parent gifts, or as your own essential resource for the journey ahead.

• Autore: Spencer Westel
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Spencer Westel
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Other
• EAN: 9798231475834