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Summary: Every Couple Must Read This!
Review: After reading this book, I felt so much better and better prepared about the impact of a child on marriage. I have several friends that ended up divorced due to issues that were complicated after having children. Even though I am fairly young, it amazes me the myth that continues to thrive with marriages is "if we have kids, it will fix everything". The author deals with all aspects of the impact of starting a family on marriage from conception through birth. This is a book to keep as a reference guide.
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Summary: A Must Read for New Parents
Review: After the Baby captures the overwhelming experience of introducing a child into your life. Not only is this a wondorous experience, but it is a tremendous transition that impacts every aspect of ones life.Rhonda Nordin highlights the many areas that remain unaddressed in ones typical baby preparation and early parenting experiences. This book is a valuable resource whether you are in the midst of sorting through the transition or you are looking for guidance in what to expect after the baby comes.
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Summary: A Must Read for New Parents
Review: After the Baby captures the overwhelming experience of introducing a child into your life. Not only is this a wondorous experience, but it is a tremendous transition that impacts every aspect of ones life. Rhonda Nordin highlights the many areas that remain unaddressed in ones typical baby preparation and early parenting experiences. This book is a valuable resource whether you are in the midst of sorting through the transition or you are looking for guidance in what to expect after the baby comes.
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Summary: An essential guide for all new parents and parents-to-be
Review: After The Baby is a must-read for couples who are contemplating starting a family. Filled with essential, practical and common sense information, After The Baby is the first book to focus solely on helping new and expectant parents adjust to the realities of marriage after childbirth.
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Summary: A great new parent handbook!
Review: I found this book to be extremely accurate and worth the time to read it! As a mother of four, I applaud the author for showing there is both ups and downs to adding a new baby to the household. It is such a blessing when that new child finally arrives and the world sees you as a glowing family, but reality is not always so rosy 24 hours a day. This book is uplifting in that you are not alone and there are some practical steps to follow to strenghten your marriage. It is wonderful to finally see a book that is not just geared to what to do for the baby, but what to do for you as parents. My children have been a huge part of my life, but I could not have raised them so happily without the aid of my husband and a strong marriage. This book tells it like it is. I wish many many parents would read it and take it to heart! Thank you Rhonda Nordin!
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Summary: A great new parent handbook!
Review: I found this book to be extremely accurate and worth the time to read it! As a mother of four, I applaud the author for showing there is both ups and downs to adding a new baby to the household. It is such a blessing when that new child finally arrives and the world sees you as a glowing family, but reality is not always so rosy 24 hours a day. This book is uplifting in that you are not alone and there are some practical steps to follow to strenghten your marriage. It is wonderful to finally see a book that is not just geared to what to do for the baby, but what to do for you as parents. My children have been a huge part of my life, but I could not have raised them so happily without the aid of my husband and a strong marriage. This book tells it like it is. I wish many many parents would read it and take it to heart! Thank you Rhonda Nordin!
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Summary: This Book Degrades the Miracle of Having a Baby
Review: I have never felt as compelled to write a review as I felt after reading this horrible book. I felt the need to warn other parents and soon-to-be parents NOT to read this book because it focuses solely on the negative aspects of having a baby. Having a baby is an incredible miracle, and as with any life-changing event, it inevitably brings about unique challenges and opportunities for change and emotional growth. This book, however, focuses only on the negative aspects of having a baby and embelishes them beyond belief. It contains horror stories that would frighten even the most courageous and committed wanna-be parent. Worst of all, this book offers *NO* solutions to the problems it so avidly describes and spouts to be true. As a mother of a three-year-old and with another one on the way, I found the book to be a sad and negative compilation of stories and anecdotes that did diservice to the joy and beauty of having a baby. I truly think it is a bad book. Don't waste your time reading this one.
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Summary: This Book Degrades the Miracle of Having a Baby
Review: I have never felt as compelled to write a review as I felt after reading this horrible book. I felt the need to warn other parents and soon-to-be parents NOT to read this book because it focuses solely on the negative aspects of having a baby. Having a baby is an incredible miracle, and as with any life-changing event, it inevitably brings about unique challenges and opportunities for change and emotional growth. This book, however, focuses only on the negative aspects of having a baby and embelishes them beyond belief. It contains horror stories that would frighten even the most courageous and committed wanna-be parent. Worst of all, this book offers *NO* solutions to the problems it so avidly describes and spouts to be true. As a mother of a three-year-old and with another one on the way, I found the book to be a sad and negative compilation of stories and anecdotes that did diservice to the joy and beauty of having a baby. I truly think it is a bad book. Don't waste your time reading this one.
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Summary: See.... I'm not crazy
Review: I thought this book was not only very well written and well researched, but it made me sigh a huge sigh of relief to know that I was not alone in my frustrations during my earlier years as a young mother. It not only justified my feelings but at the end of each chapter gave me helpful hints on ways to deal with the challanges of new parenthood. Now that my children are 12, 10 and 3, I still found the book relevant, because alot of the same challenges apply, you just have found ways to work around them or work them out. Although starting a family is a magical and exciting time, too many people go at it with no preparation or idea as to what to expect. We go through all sorts of classes and excercises to get us through the delivery, but little or no preparation is done for the changes, physical, emotional, hormonal that take place in your body in addition to the changes that your relationship goes thru. This book helps you to prepare for and handle the changes.
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Summary: A Must Read for New Parents or Parents to Be
Review: Most couples are overjoyed at the prospect of being new parents. They spend a great deal of time preparing for the birth process and care of the new born. What is often unanticipated, is the profound change in the couple's marriage. Sadly some of these changes can result in a tremendous amount of tension as a minimum and all too frequently divorce. Rhoda Nordin has spent the last 10 years researching the impact on a marriage after the birth of child. As a happily married mother of two sons, she also provides her own keen insights on the challenges facing new parents. After the Baby, is well written and well organized. The book draws upon leading academic research as well as numerous interviews with men and women. Using these resouces, Rhoda Nornin helps explain why their is tension in the marriage and the best ways to address this tension before it can have a more negative impact on the couples long-term relationship. Portions of the book are very funny and portions, such as the chapter of why children fear divorce, are extremely poignant. I haved given the book to several friends with young children and not only did they find the book helpful but insisted that their husbands read it. I firmly believe that Rhoda Nordin's book will help many new parents not only be great parents but also be happily married couples.
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