For life’s big and small moments Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh staff have created Here to Help booklists. Here to Help booklists provide information and support in navigating life experiences. Librarians at your neighborhood library are here to help too and can offer suggestions for these or other topics of interest, as well as community information and resources. Through these booklists you can create opportunities to find connection, solace, comfort, or information for action.
The books in this list provide information and resources for adults who are new parents.
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Mom to a new baby with high medical needs and with a slew of hardships that just won’t quit, Adiba set out on a reckoning that was just as generational as it was personal. This is a true love story, but the kind about a woman loving herself enough to change the course of her life for herself, her child, and the women after her as well as before.
You can also check out this title as an eBook or eAudio on Hoopla.
Written by a psychologist and relationship expert, Baby Bomb offers powerful tools based in psychology and neurobiology to help you and your partner co-parent and co-partner as a solid and supportive team–while also cultivating mad love for each other!
You can also check out this title as an eBook or eAudio on Hoopla.
The ultimate modern-day breastfeeding guide, with empowering, medically sound advice and solutions for the trickiest issues-from a pioneering ENT doctor and breastfeeding expert.
A revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shouldered for too long—from a woman tapped by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine as the expert on this topic for a new generation of women.
You can also check out this title as an eBook and eAudio on Libby and as a documentary on Hoopla.
In this moving memoir, Shirley Smith, wife of NBA Champion and All-Star J. R. Smith, tells the story of giving birth to one of the youngest premature babies to survive—using her experience to heighten awareness of the crisis of Black maternal and infant health and pay tribute to Black women’s resilience.
You can also check out this title as an eBook or eAudio on Hoopla.
A charming illustrated guide to burping, stimulating, and soothing your baby–so you can keep your sanity while helping your infant find inner peace. The Mama Sutra is an essential parenting handbook to more than forty methods to calm fussiness, encourage bowel movements, and (the holy grail) help everyone get back to sleep.
Child welfare and adoption specialist Lindsay Garrett, LCSW, teaches Millennials considering having kids how to emotionally prepare for parenthood, determine their parenting style and values, and establish sustainable support.
Trained at Yale and Harvard and certified in perinatal mental health, Dr. Pensak provides practical and emotional support, helping to relieve the anxiety and pressure for perfection in motherhood and paving the way for a better beginning for families and babies.
Sharing the latest scientific research on raising healthy babies, Alice Callahan, a science writer whose work appears in the New York Times and the Washington Post, covers topics like the microbiome, attachment, vaccine safety, pacifiers, allergies, increasing breast milk production, and choosing an infant formula.
In a relatable and inclusive tone, Set Boundaries, Find Peace presents simple-yet-powerful ways to establish healthy boundaries in all aspects of life. Rooted in the latest research and best practices used in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), these techniques help us identify and express our needs clearly and without apology.
You can also check out this title as an eBook or eAudio on Libby.
Pregnancy may have left you feeling that there’s no way to fix common postpartum symptoms, such as pelvic floor issues, exhaustion, burnout, and lactation woes. But that’s simply not true. With this revolutionary resource in hand, you’ll learn what happens to the body during pregnancy and childbirth, common changes in function and feeling, and solutions for healing.
