Download or read book Melissa and Her Mother Find a Baby written by Ben Pathen and published by AB Discovery. This book was released on with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melissa wants a baby. Not that this is unusual for a young woman, And her mother wanted a grandchild – also not unusual. But there was an important issue… and his name was Thomas. Years earlier, the handsome – if short – Thomas resisted the romantic overtures of Melissa and a woman spurned is… a problem. Melissa had hoped that Thomas would give her a baby in the more traditional method, but she had been rejected. Together, Melissa and her mother decided that they would indeed have a baby and grandchild. And Thomas would be involved, regardless. But not as anyone would have guessed. Thomas himself, was going to be the baby - diapers and all.

Download or read book Melissa and Her Mother Find a Baby written by Ben Pathen and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melissa wants a baby.Not that this is unusual for a young woman, And her mother wanted a grandchild - also not unusual. But there was an important issue... and his name was Thomas.Years earlier, the handsome - if short - Thomas resisted the romantic overtures of Melissa and a woman spurned is... a problem.Melissa had hoped that Thomas would give her a baby in the more traditional method, but she had been rejected. Together, Melissa and her mother decided that they would indeed have a baby and grandchild. And Thomas would be involved, regardless.But not as anyone would have guessed.Thomas himself, was going to be the baby- diapers and all.NOTE: This is the 'diaper version' of 'A Baby for Melissa and her Mother'

Download or read book A Baby for Melissa And Her Mother Nappy Rubber Pants Version written by Ben Pathen and published by AB Discovery. This book was released on 2024-07-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melissa wants a baby. Not that this is unusual for a young woman, And her mother wanted a grandchild - also not unusual. But there was an important issue... and his name was Thomas. Years earlier, the handsome - if short - Thomas resisted the romantic overtures of Melissa and a woman spurned is... a problem. Melissa had hoped that Thomas would give her a baby in the more traditional method, but she had been rejected. Together, Melissa and her mother decided that they would indeed have a baby and grandchild. And Thomas would be involved, regardless. But not as anyone would have guessed. Thomas himself was going to be the baby - nappies and all.

Download or read book Pieces of My Mother written by Melissa Cistaro and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A story that lingers in the heart long after the last page is turned." —HOPE EDELMAN, bestselling author of Motherless Daughters and The Possibility of Everything This provocative, poignant memoir of a daughter whose mother left her behind by choice begs the question: Are we destined to make the same mistakes as our parents? One summer, Melissa Cistaro's mother drove off without explanation Devastated, Melissa and her brothers were left to pick up the pieces, always tormented by the thought: Why did their mother abandon them? Thirty-five years later, with children of her own, Melissa finds herself in Olympia, Washington, as her mother is dying. After decades of hiding her painful memories, she has just days to find out what happened that summer and confront the fear she could do the same to her kids. But Melissa never expects to stumble across a cache of letters her mother wrote to her but never sent, which could hold the answers she seeks. Haunting yet ultimately uplifting, Pieces of My Mother chronicles one woman's quest to discover what drives a mother to walk away from the children she loves. Alternating between Melissa's tumultuous coming-of-age and her mother's final days, this captivating memoir reveals how our parents' choices impact our own and how we can survive those to forge our own paths.

Download or read book Being There written by Erica Komisar and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful look at the importance of a mother’s presence in the first years of life **Featured in The Wall Street Journal, and seen on Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, and CBS New York** In this important and empowering book, veteran psychoanalyst Erica Komisar explains why a mother's emotional and physical presence in her child's life--especially during the first three years--gives the child a greater chance of growing up emotionally healthy, happy, secure, and resilient. In other words, when it comes to connecting with your baby or toddler, more is more. Compassionate and balanced, and focusing on the emotional health of children and moms alike, this book shows parents how to give their little ones the best chance for developing into healthy and loving adults. Based on more than two decades of clinical work, established psychoanalytic theory, and the most cutting-edge neurobiological research on caregiving, attachment, and brain development, Being There explains: • How to establish emotional connection with a newborn or young child--regardless of whether you're able to work part-time or stay home • How to ease transitions to minimize stress for your baby or toddler • How to select and train quality childcare • What's true and false about widely held beliefs like "I'm not good with babies" and “I’ll make up for it when he’s older” • How to recognize and combat feelings of postpartum depression or boredom • Why three months of maternity leave is not long enough--and how parents can take control of their choices to provide for their family's emotional needs in the first three years Being a new mom isn’t easy. But with support, emotional awareness, and coping skills, it can be the most magical—and essential—work we’ll ever do.

Download or read book A Baby For Melissa And Her Mother written by Ben Pathen and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-16 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melissa wants a baby.Not that this is unusual for a young woman, And her mother wanted a grandchild - also not unusual. But there was an important issue... and his name was Thomas.Years earlier, the handsome - if short - Thomas resisted the romantic overtures of Melissa and a woman spurned is... a problem.Melissa had hoped that Thomas would give her a baby in the more traditional method, but she had been rejected. Together, Melissa and her mother decided that they would indeed have a baby and grandchild. And Thomas would be involved, regardless.But not as anyone would have guessed.Thomas himself, was going to be the baby- nappies and all.

Download or read book Without My Mother written by Melissa Cistaro and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Do You Forgive a Parent Who Has Failed You? One summer, Melissa Cistaro’s mother stepped into her baby-blue Dodge Dart and drove away, leaving behind Melissa and her brothers. Rarely seeing their mother as they were growing up, they blamed themselves for her leaving, turning to each other for support and seeking out often destructive ways to cope with living without their mom. Decades later, with children of her own, Melissa finds herself in Olympia, Washington, as her mother is dying. She has just days to find out what happened that summer and to confront the unthinkable fear that a “leaving gene” might be lying dormant inside of her. She knew she came from a long line of mothers who left their children. But when Melissa stumbles across a folder titled “Letters Never Sent” tucked away in her mother’s filing cabinet, she begins to feel the wreckage of her mother’s painful journey, before and after she abandoned her family. Alternating between Melissa’s tumultuous coming-of-age and her mother’s final days, Without My Mother is a haunting yet ultimately uplifting story of one woman’s quest to discover how our parents’ choices impact our own and how we can survive those choices to forge our own paths.

Download or read book Global Mom written by Melissa Dalton-Bradford and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One mother’s touching memoir of the adventures and hardships she faced while raising a family internationally for over 20 years. After more than twenty years living abroad—sixteen addresses, eight countries, and five different languages—writer Melissa Bradford shares a fantastic journey of motherhood that will inspire any family. Follow this family of six on their passage—extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreakingly poignant—from Bright Lights (of New York City) to the Northern Lights (of Norway) to the City of Light (Paris) to the speed-of-light of the Autobahn (in Munich). Continue deep into the tropics of Southeast Asia (Singapore) and end your voyage in the heights of the Swiss Alps (Geneva). As varied as the topography—the craggy fjords, the meandering Seine, the black forests, the muggy tropics, the soaring Alps—this international tale traverses everything from giving birth in a château in Versailles to living on an island in a fjord. From singing jazz on national Norwegian T.V. to judging an Indonesian beauty contest. From navigating the labyrinth of French bureaucracy and the traffic patterns of Singapore to sitting around a big pine table where the whole family learns languages, cultures, and cuisines—where they learn to love this complex world and, most importantly, each other. Praise for Global Mom “A stunning picture of life.” —The Deseret News “Here is a rich, frank and funny book in which the essentials of family and friendship and community are combined with interesting travelogue and the best kind of spiritual writing. In short, this is a book about love.” —Kate Braestrup, New York Times–bestselling author of Here If You Need Me “A brilliant hero's journey highlighting the challenges and triumphs of motherhood under unique cross-cultural circumstances. With honesty, sensitivity, and humor, Dalton-Bradford is a role model for all parents who will be relocating with children, especially those who will relocate for their spouse’s career.” —Paula Caligiuri, PhD, author of Cultural Agility: Building a Pipeline of Successful Global Professionals

Download or read book Comparisonitis written by Melissa Ambrosini and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiple bestselling author Melissa Ambrosini (Mastering Your Mean Girl, Open Wide, PurposeFULL) and host of the #1 podcast The Melissa Ambrosini Show puts the condition of Comparisonitis under the microscope, unpacking the symptoms, and offering practical tips you can start using immediately to break the cycle of comparison, free up mental bandwidth, and live life on your own terms. When you cure Comparisonitis, you will… • Be free to live your life for you (no one else) • Feel peace from within • Experience genuine happiness • Truly appreciate your body and life • Free up SO much mental bandwidth for things you LOVE • Quit beating yourself up • Have more energy to go after the things that truly matter to you • Experience a radical shift towards authenticity • Be a better friend, partner, parent, family member, colleague, human • Free yourself from expectations • Unleash the courage to go after your dreams • Unstifle your creativity • Feel more liberated than you've ever felt in your life • And much more It creeps up on you without warning—perhaps while chatting with a friend, scrolling through social media, or even just while walking down the street. All it takes is the hint of someone doing or having something you perceive as "better" than you, and it hits. A feeling takes over—intense, blinding, gutting. Your brain starts spinning with toxic thoughts about yourself (or others), and you're left feeling ashamed, guilty, and even worthless. It's called comparisonitis. And if you've suffered from it, you're NOT alone. Comparisonitis is a contagious, socially transmitted condition that occurs when you compare yourself to others so frequently and fiercely that you're left paralyzed, with your confidence in tatters and your self-worth plummeting. It may sound trivial, but this affliction can have serious adverse effects on our mental health, leading to depression, anxiety, overthinking, and regret. To make matters worse, our comparison culture is only expanding. Thanks to social media, we have more opportunities to compare ourselves than ever before, and even kids are falling into the trap. Described as a "self-help guru" by Elle magazine, Melissa has experienced the effects of comparisonitis first hand, having worked extensively in industries like acting, modeling and dancing where comparison culture is not only rampant but openly encouraged. Melissa knows all too well how comparisonitis is infecting our minds and hurting our hearts, and in this book, she'll help you heal from this disease, liberate your headspace, and raise your self-worth so radically that you'll never let comparison rob you of your joy and happiness again.

Download or read book Tiny Gentle Asians written by Melissa Kenny and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photos of cute babies have the unique power to unite humanity in one collective "naww". This is the very forefront of chubby-cheek photojournalism. In our current global political climate, we are exposed daily to horrible images of war and pain. Then sometimes, mercifully, we are thrown a lifeline. The viral Instagram account Tiny Gentle Asians is precisely one such lifeline. It's a suite of fun and uplifting images, showcasing adorable pictures of babies - often chubby to the point of absurd - taken by doting mothers across Asia. "It's the best site," says Chelsea Handler, comedian and TV royalty. "Every morning there's a new fat nugget." The sassy captions which accompany each image are written by Melissa Kenny, the mastermind behind TGA. Lately, though, she's been busy... Melissa has just undertaken her most ambitious project yet: Tiny Gentle Asians, the book! Loaded with exclusive cute content, this finally brings TGA into the physical world. Each page is a new adventure in newborns. Expect plenty of fat rolls, screwed up cheeks, dimples on dimples, implausible costumes and plenty of crying bubs. With the success of her Instagram, Melissa's life has been flooded by the endless submissions from photo-mad moms. This book is a careful curation of these submissions, as well as the fruits of her own searches. This book is sure to bring light and joy to any reader with a pulse. We thank Melissa for her noble work in bringing these tots the attention they deserve.

Download or read book A Baby For Melissa And Her Mother written by Ben Pathen and published by AB Discovery. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melissa wants a baby. Not that this is unusual for a young woman, And her mother wanted a grandchild - also not unusual. But there was an important issue... and his name was Thomas. Years earlier, the handsome - if short - Thomas resisted the romantic overtures of Melissa and a woman spurned is... a problem. Melissa had hoped that Thomas would give her a baby in the more traditional method, but she had been rejected. Together, Melissa and her mother decided that they would indeed have a baby and grandchild. And Thomas would be involved, regardless. But not as anyone would have guessed. Thomas himself, was going to be the baby - nappies and all.

Download or read book Chugga Chugga Choo Choo written by Kevin Lewis and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come along for the ride as a busy toy locomotive makes its rounds through a bustling playroom. Featuring rhyming couplets and bright, bold illustrations, this story is sure to be a hit with young train lovers.

Download or read book One Pound Twelve Ounces written by Melissa Harris and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plans. Everyone makes them. Life rarely follows them. After years of infertility and multiple miscarriages, Melissa Harris is dismayed to find herself about to give birth at just twenty-three weeks pregnant--but she discovers a fierceness in herself and in her micropreemie son, Sam, as he proves that even the tiniest of us can put up one hell of a fight.

Download or read book Just Under the Clouds written by Melissa Sarno and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you still have a home if you don't have a house? In the spirit of The Truth About Jellyfish and Fish in a Tree comes a stunning debut about a family struggling to find something lasting when everything feels so fleeting. Always think in threes and you'll never fall, Cora's father told her when she was a little girl. Two feet, one hand. Two hands, one foot. That was all Cora needed to know to climb the trees of Brooklyn. But now Cora is a middle schooler, a big sister, and homeless. Her mother is trying to hold the family together after her father's death, and Cora must look after her sister, Adare, who's just different, their mother insists. Quick to smile, Adare hates wearing shoes, rarely speaks, and appears untroubled by the question Cora can't help but ask: How will she find a place to call home? After their room at the shelter is ransacked, Cora's mother looks to an old friend for help, and Cora finally finds what she has been looking for: Ailanthus altissima, the "tree of heaven," which can grow in even the worst conditions. It sets her on a path to discover a deeper truth about where she really belongs. Just Under the Clouds will take root in your heart and blossom long after you've turned the last page. "[A] heartbreaking yet hopeful story of a family searching for a place to belong." --Publishers Weekly "[A] thought provoking debut about the meaning of home and the importance of family."--Horn Book Magazine

Download or read book You Carried Me written by Melissa Ohden and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Melissa Ohden is fourteen when she learns she is the survivor of a botched abortion. In this intimate memoir she details for the first time her search for her biological parents, and her own journey from anger and shame to faith and empowerment"--

Download or read book A Baby for Melissa And Her Mother Nappy Rubber Pants Version written by Ben Pathen and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-07-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melissa wants a baby. Not that this is unusual for a young woman, And her mother wanted a grandchild - also not unusual. But there was an important issue... and his name was Thomas. Years earlier, the handsome - if short - Thomas resisted the romantic overtures of Melissa and a woman spurned is... a problem. Melissa had hoped that Thomas would give her a baby in the more traditional method, but she had been rejected. Together, Melissa and her mother decided that they would indeed have a baby and grandchild. And Thomas would be involved, regardless. But not as anyone would have guessed. Thomas himself, was going to be the baby - nappies, rubber pants and all.

Download or read book Who Wants to be a Baby Again Vol 5 written by Ben Pathen and published by AB Discovery. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is arguably the most common theme in ABDL fiction – becoming a baby again, perhaps forever and perhaps completely so. For many Adult Babies, the idea of being able to give into our wishes and desires completely and without restriction is a wonderful concept and one that grabs our attention. For the vast majority of adult babies, the expression of our inner infant is complicated by endless compromises and limits on what we can actually do. Our partners limit us. Our finances limit us. Social acceptance – and the lack thereof – limits us. Friends, employment, family and other issues limit us. But fiction can overcome all of these. In fiction, we can bend the rules of probability, break the bounds of social norms and erase the limits that otherwise keep us from expressing our inner infancy the way we wish. In these three books, you will read of adults that become complete babies once more. If they are not originally completely willing to become babies again, they quickly discover the joys, the peace and comfort of diapers, baby clothes, bottle feeds and baby toys. Infancy is entrancing to almost everyone, but for those special people – adult babies – infancy is only a diaper-change away and stories of grownups reverting to babyhood is less fiction than an innate desire that we express on the pages of a book. Enjoy your stay in the world of refreshing infancy. BOOKS: Melissa and her mother find a baby Aunt Janet's Reluctant Baby Baby Jacob and his Psychiatrist