The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood: Wise and Witty Advice on Everything from Coping with Postpartum Mood Swings to Salva Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition
by Vicki Iovine
The author of the enormously successful "Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy" brings a mother's wisdom and a girlfriend's candor to the first book in a fresh new series of guides to motherhood. Readers will learn about baby euphoria, postpartum mood swings, salvaging one's sex life, and fitting into that favorite pair of jeans.
Summary
"Baby euphoria": Is it a mind-altering drug?
"Husband? What Husband?": Taking care of the big baby, as well as the little baby
"I Want My Old Body Back!": What you can fix and what you can't
"The Droning Phenomenon": The inability to discuss anything but your baby for more than thirty seconds
"Do I Have to Become Carol Brady?": Conquering your fear of being a less-than-perfect mother
"Competitive Mothering": Coping with know-it-alls, finger-pointers, and others who try to "Out-Mom" you
NOTE: Pausing to read this book may be the only selfish thing you do all year, since you'll have time for nothing else!
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- Title The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood: Wise and Witty Advice on Everything from Coping with Postpartum Mood Swings to Salva
- Author Vicki Iovine
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Tarcherperigee, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-10-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780399523304 / 0399523308
- Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.08 x 0.78 in (23.39 x 15.44 x 1.98 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Holiday: Mother's Day
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Friendship
- Library of Congress subjects Motherhood, Childbirth
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-12982
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.874
Media reviews
“Invaluable…[a] funny, honest new volume.”—L.A. Parent
“If humor is the best medicine, Vicki Iovine has all the tonic a new mother should need. Her information comes from experience and her humor from the heart. An invaluable dialogue with a girlfriend who’s been there. And got the most from her adventure.”—Rocky Mountain News
Citations
- Library Journal, 09/01/1997, Page 210
- Publishers Weekly, 07/07/1997, Page 63
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