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Golden Month - Hardcover by Jenny Allison
$30.00 NZD
Category: Birth & Pregnancy
Golden Month outlines a holistic approach towards postnatal care that amalgamates the best practices from different cultures throughout the world. An acupuncturist and teacher, Jenny Allison has spent a decade researching this book. Golden Month aims to debunk the anxiety-inducing myth of the perfect p ...Show more
I Am Not Your Baby Mother: What it's like to be a black British mother by Candice Braithwaite
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
It's about time we made motherhood more diverse... When Candice fell pregnant and stepped into the motherhood playing field, she found her experience bore little resemblance to the glossy magazine photos of women in horizontal stripe tops and the pinned discussions on mumsnet about what pushchair to b ...Show more
Beyond the Bump: A clinical psychologist's guide to navigating the mental, emotional and physical turmoil of becoming a mother by Sally Shepherd
$33.00 NZD
Category: Birth & Pregnancy
Beyond the Bump is a thoughtful and practical guide that aims to help new mums feel calm, confident and equipped to face the physical, emotional and mental hurdles they may encounter post birth. Clinical psychologist Sally Shepherd understands that a healthy and happy parent is a baby's most important ...Show more
Rants in the Dark: From One Tired Mama to Another by Emily Writes
$35.00 NZD
Category: For Mothers
Popular blogger Emily Writes gives words of encouragement to sleep-deprived parents everywhere. With two small boys, both non-sleepers, Emily finds herself awake in the wee small hours night after night. Her writing is often done then, and she offers her own often hilarious and always heart-warming exp ...Show more
Where the Wild Mums Are by Katie Blackburn; Sholto Walker
$25.00 NZD
Category: Gifts
The day Mum didn't get dressed and went on strike, Dad called her 'a Wild Thing' and Mum said 'Cook your own dinner' and stomped off upstairs to have a bath . . . In this hilarious, touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, a worn-out mum finds herself floating across time and spac ...Show more
When We Remember to Breathe - The Mess and Magic of Mothering by Michele Powles; Renee Liang
$25.00 NZD
Category: For Mothers
Two courageous Kiwi women, one an author and the other a paediatrician, lay bare the raw joy, beauty, discomfort and humour of modern motherhood. The result is remarkable and fearless. Through births, death, stumbles and first steps, Michele Powles and Renee Liang wrote. And together these gifted wri ...Show more
Confessions of a Coffee Group Dropout: Navigating New Motherhood by Eleanor Black
$30.00 NZD
Category: For Mothers
Motherhood, for a first-timer, can be an overwhelming and even frightening experience but admitting this doesn't seem to be the done thing. The birth, according to Eleanor, is the least of it. It's what happens after the birth that blows your mind. You're meant to look like an expert from day one d ...Show more
You're Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation by Deborah Tannen
$38.00 NZD
Category: Mother/Daughter
Deborah Tannen's #1 New York Timesbestseller You Just Don't Understand revolutionized communication between women and men. Now, in her most provocative and engaging book to date, she takes on what is potentially the most fraught and passionate connection of women's lives: the mother-daughter relationshi ...Show more
Start Talking: A Girl's Guide for You and Your Mom about Health, Sex, or Whatever by Mary Jo Rapini; Janine Sherman
$33.00 NZD
Category: For Girls
A Q&A guide for mother-daughter conversations about female health and sexuality, this book targets both daughters and mothers. Start Talking contains more than 113 questions girls ask including questions about periods, sex, relationships, guys, eating, exercise, body development, along with similar ...Show more
The Baby by Marie Darrieussecq
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
The Baby is a mother's project and a writer's project-how to reconcile these two demanding roles? What is a baby? And why are there so few of them in literature? Through notes taken in the months after her first child was born, Darrieussecq, in her characteristically ingenious style, makes observations ...Show more
Like Mother, Like Daughter? How Career Women Influence Their Daughters' Ambition by Jill Armstrong
$70.00 NZD
Category: Feminism
Does having a mother with a successful career benefit her daughters? Does it lead them to have higher aspirations for their own careers, and, if so, do those ambitions translate into career success? Like Mother, Like Daughter? looks at these questions and more, using case studies of women who are at the ...Show more
How Mothers Love : and How Relationships are Born by Naomi Stadlen
$40.00 NZD
Category: For Mothers
Mothers describe falling in love with their babies and then, more slowly, learning to understand them. Children flourish when their mothers love and understand them. For over 20 years, Naomi Stadlen has listened to hundreds of mothers talking at her weekly discussion groups. In How Mothers Love she off ...Show more
