Development First

Discover simple and powerful self-care techniques that will help new moms conquer postpartum - find joy and fulfillment in motherhood without feeling guilty!

Becoming a parent transforms you. From the moment your baby arrives, the pace of life shifts. Time begins to move in strange new ways—excruciatingly slow during sleepless nights and impossibly fast when you realise your baby has grown out of their newborn clothes again. In this first year, everything is new: the feelings, the routines, the worries, the joys. Your baby is learning the world—and you’re learning your baby.

As a first responder, you live on the front line. Everything that everyone else runs away from, you run toward. Whether you’re a firefighter, an EMT, a paramedic, a healthcare professional, a police officer, a 911 operator, or military personnel, you’re constantly “on.” But you have a lifeline: Your faith. There might be times when you wonder whether you can keep doing this, nights that you lie awake feeling alone… But the Bible is here to guide you, and there’s scripture that can lead you through the darkest moments.

In his years as a professional ice-skater, Olympic Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton learned to embrace the mind-set of working hard to "beat" the competition. But it seems competition has gotten a bad rap these days. We've bought in to the belief that it is unfair to participants to rank performance. Yet competition is in fact a good thing because it's about working toward excellence. Finish First is a wake-up call for business leaders, entrepreneurs, spouses, parents, and even students to stop settling for mediocre and strive to go for the win.

Do you want to make the most of the little free time you have and feel confident that you are actively helping your child's communication skills in just a few minutes a day, no matter what their underlying challenges are?... Then you have come to the right place!

Despite modern technology and the ample ways we have to keep in touch, we risk neglecting our relationships with the people who have the most profound effect on our well-being: our friends. Weaving together personal stories, interviews with experts, and social research, Friendship First empowers you to nurture relationships with friends both new and old.

"Girl Dad: Navigating Fatherhood with Daughters" is an indispensable guide for any father who wants to form a strong, healthy, and meaningful relationship with his daughter. This book is more than a guide—it's a celebration of the unique and special bond between a father and his daughter, and it offers real-life tools to make that bond even stronger.

Inner healing is not intellectual, it’s emotional. Shadow work is not about chasing down all your past trauma. It’s about learning how to release all the unresolved emotions inside of you. It’s about building emotional muscle and confronting the uncomfortable feelings that come up in a healthy way that allows us to release them. In this book, I’ll show you how to bypass your brain and connect directly to your heart to release your past triggers and traumas so that you can start living without fear, guilt, shame, anxiety, and more....

When Kristin Meekhof lost her husband to cancer, she discovered what all widows learn: the moment you lose your partner, you must make crucial decisions that will impact the rest of your life. But where do you begin? This inspiring audiobook shows grieving widows what to expect and how to deal with the challenges of losing a life partner.

In this audiobook, I’ll guide you on what you can expect from your little baby in the first month, including the hospital process following birth, in-depth instructions on breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, changing diapers, possible complications, and many tips.

Tired of struggling with your little one at breakfast, lunch, and dinner? Enter responsive feeding! Recommended by the US Department of Health and Human Services and the Academy of American Pediatrics, this revolutionary approach takes the worry out of mealtimes. Feeding therapist and speech-language pathologist Melanie Potock gives parents the tools - and the confidence - to read baby’s communication cues and follow baby’s lead.

Just as parents can expect their children to encounter physical bumps, bruises, and injuries along the road to adulthood, emotional distress is also an unavoidable part of growing up. The sources of this distress range from toddlerhood to young adulthood, from the frustration of toilet training to the uncertainty of leaving home for the first time. This second edition of The Parents' Guide to Psychological First Aid brings together an array of experts to offer parental guidance in helping your child navigate and recover from the everyday stresses they will encounter growing up.

Do you want to make money in commercial real estate, but you don’t have the knowledge? This book can be the tool to help you achieve your goal. Maybe you have some residential experience or are new to the industry entirely. Everyone starts somewhere, and I was in that same position.

Moms have hundreds of parenting advice books willing to tackle the more cringe-inducing questions of parenthood. But what about books for the other half of the equation: the dads? Man vs. Child is a funny, fresh take on the parenting guide, written from the dad's perspective. Author and popular Upright Citizens Brigade performer Doug Moe knows first-time fathers are as worried about being terrible at their new terrifying jobs as new moms are.

JavaScript Application Design: A Build First Approach introduces JavaScript developers to techniques that will improve the quality of their software as well as their web development workflow. You'll begin by learning how to establish build processes that are appropriate for JavaScript-driven development. Then, you'll walk through best practices for productive day-to-day development, like running tasks when your code changes, deploying applications with a single command, and monitoring the state of your application once it's in production.

في هذا الكتاب الصغير الملهم يجادل المؤلف "جوش " في أنك تستطيع أن تصبح جيدا بما يكفي في أي شيء لدرجة أنك تستمتع به في 20 ساعة فقط بمعنى آخر كل ما يقف بينك وبين العزف على الأوكليلي هو الوقت الذي كنت ستقضيه أمام التليفزيون في الاسبوعين القادمين فاذا كان بوسع جوش وهو أب ومبادر أعمال مشغول أن يفسح لنفسه ما يكفي من الوقت فان بقيتنا يستطيع أن يفعل ذلك أيضاً .

Your job is to help other people…but who’s there to help you? Your mental health matters, and it’s time to take care of it. Whether you’re a firefighter, a paramedic, an EMT, or a police officer, you’re dealing with traumatic, stressful, and high-pressure situations every day. Perhaps your role doesn’t fit into these categories. Maybe you’re a healthcare provider, or maybe you have a hands-on role in the military.

This episode in the First Time series for gay or bicurious men delivers you into the experienced hands of a very special masseur. Just breathe, lie back and relax while his knowing hands and fingers take you on another journey of pure pleasure. A massage can be the most pleasurable experience you can have without sex. So what if your masseur knew just how to take you to even greater pleasure? Get on his table and relax as his hands use the warm oil to give you a very happy ending.

Embarking in a solo parenting journey is brave and it is not easy. Have you heard all the good intentioned advice but think they apply to more "traditional" families? Have you wondered how to juggle parenting, work, and a social life with a little one in tow, making sure they are thriving as happy kids? Look no more. This audiobook won't teach you all the baby basics, but will be tailored to solo parent life, in a positive way. We deep dive on how to cover the main, basic needs of your baby when you are on your own.

When your baby is unhappy, you're unhappy. Learn the experts' secrets to soothing your fussy little one, for happier days and more restful nights! Whether your baby is colicky, fussy, or just plain cranky, the proven techniques in The CALM Baby Method will help you both feel better.