Health - Parenting and Family
Winner
The B.A.B.Y. Book: Best Advice for Baby & You: The Essential Parent's Hospital Guide to Postpartum Care From Delivery to Discharge...and Beyond!
Karen Lea Brewer BSN, RNC-MNN
This book helps to educate parents on what to expect after the delivery of their baby. What mothers need to know about taking care of themselves for the first few days, what parents need to know about caring and feeding their baby, and what to expect over the next couple days during their hospital stay.
Most parents have not been patients in the hospital, so to be in the hospital for the delivery of their child/children can be a very anxiety-provoking time. Not only does mom need care but so do their baby/babies. This makes it twice as scary for parents. This guide goes over everything they can expect to happen with them, how to navigate those first few days, and how to handle a few things more after they are discharged.
With the nursing shortage ever-growing, education will no doubt be put on the back burner and patients will suffer because of it. This guide will help bridge that educational gap and help parents have a great, anxiety-reducing start to their new life together.
Health - Parenting and Family
Finalist
Low-Demand Parenting: Dropping Demands, Restoring Calm, and Finding Connection with your Uniquely Wired Child
Amanda Diekman
Low-demand parenting allows you to drop the demands and expectations that are making family life impossible and embrace the joyful freedom of living life with low demands. It can be a particularly effective approach for children with high anxiety levels including neurodivergent children. Amanda talks from experience and teaches you how to identify what the big, tiny and invisible demands are for your own child and gives you the step-by-step instructions on how to drop them. Full of practical resources and scripts that are easy to implement in busy everyday life, this book is your flashlight and your map to parenting your uniquely wired child. It will not tell you where to go, but it will help you find your way so you and your family thrive.