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The Big Idea of Getting Ready for Baby
Just after my first baby was born, I was starting my chiropractic practice and I had a chance to chat with someone who had children that were older than mine. We were living in Vancouver at the time and my husband was traveling a lot because of his job. I was overwhelmed with learning to care for a baby and starting a practice and one day, over coffee, I just looked at my friend and asked, "Benita, do you ever feel..."
And she cut me off with a twinkle in her eye, "you feel tired all the time and lonely with Bruce gone so much. There is so much to do and you just can't keep up. You sometimes want to scream because there is no time for you, and you wonder if you're doing everything wrong." Well, in thirty seconds she had summed up my life. "How did you know?" I asked, thinking that I must be pathetic if it was that obvious.
"We all feel that way." And those words changed my life. I was NOT alone, and I was NOT a failure as a mother if everyone else felt the same. To my relief, I realized that I was doing just fine.
Life was more manageable after that day. Once Cody was older, and I was working, I noticed that the pregnant mothers in my clinic were experiencing the same doubts and fears that I did. They weren't sure of their options for birth or what to do next and they always wondered if they were missing something important.
One day, inspiration struck: there was a way to help. Pregnant women needed a guide- something to help them organize their lives so that they could find their way to becoming mothers easier. As a journal and a weekly planner combined, it could serve to improve communication with their health professionals and include advice from moms with hard-earned experience.
What a great concept! Ideas just flowed onto the page. But, a few months later, we moved back home to Calgary...and along came Kayla, our girl with the wild hair and the sweet smile. Then Amanda, our little miss sunshine, and even though I was busy at home and at work, throughout this incredible journey, the pregnancy journal was always in the back of my mind, simmering away.
So now, after ten years and three kids, the pregnancy journal that I had the idea to write is now complete... and it is more beautiful than I ever imagined. This is thanks to many wonderful women in my life who have read the book and offered their ideas about what they needed to hear during their pregnancies.
Here are some of the great features you'll find. Getting Ready for Baby:
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Begins with you – your pregnancy story, a letter to your baby, and more.
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Helps you to decide upon your ideal birth, and helps you find the people who can help.
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Has a place for you to write your birth plan
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Helps you establish your ultimate health care team.
- Provides pages for you to write down how your body is changing, and your questions.
- Includes dad in your pregnancy, and is sensitive to single moms whose partner is not a part of her life.
- Offers suggestions to celebrate your journey to motherhood.
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Helps you organize your home and your life before your baby is born.
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Lists what you absolutely need before your baby is born and the things that can wait.
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Includes a list of items to pack if you are having a hospital birth, including natural remedies to help you recover more quickly.
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Includes a list for the people you want to call right after your birth.
- Ends with you – your birth story and pregnancy highlights
- And much more!
 
The Calm Baby Cookbook - Helping Fussy Babies Everywhere!
When my friend Judith and I started a prenatal program called Becoming Parents, we included a full day on how to survive the first few months of having a new baby. Our couples found the information to be extremely helpful. We talked about postpartum recovery, breastfeeding, how to weather relationship changes in the first year and infant massage. It was such a wonderful course.
During the breastfeeding section, I always talked about latch, the wonderful properties of breastmilk, and as an aside I discussed the foods that can cause a baby to become fussy and irritable. Well, that was the section that most women found to be the most helpful.
One day, Judith said to me out of the blue, "You know, Melanie, you should write this down. We need to help more women than just the women that we see in our courses." It souned like good advice, so I started asking around. It became obvious that it was almost as easy to self publish my own book as to print it out at Staples.
So, after one year of writing, rewriting and more rewriting,, lots of rookie mistakes, and serendipity, The Calm Baby Cookbook was created! After four years, we continue to send books throughout Canada, the United States and worldwide. We are thrilled that women everywhere are finding help for their babies.
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