Being There

Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters

By: Erica Komisar, Sydny Miner

Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King

Compassionate and balanced, and focusing on the emotional health and well-being of children as well as that of the mothers who care for them, this book shows mothers and fathers how to give their children the best chance for developing into healthy and loving adults. Based on more than two decades of clinical work, established psychoanalytic theory, and the most current and cutting-edge neurobiological research on caregiving, attachment, and brain development, the book explains:

• How to establish emotional connection with a newborn or young child - regardless of whether you're able to pause your career to stay home
• How to select and train quality childcare if necessary - and how to ease transitions and minimize stress for your baby or toddler
• What's true and false about widely held beliefs like "babies are resilient" and how to combat feelings of post-partum depression or boredom
• Why three months of maternity leave is not long enough - and how women and their partners can take control of their choices to provide for their family's emotional needs in the first three years

©2017 Erica Komisar (P)2017 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

One of the best books on parenting.

Book would be of interest to expecting parents and actual parents. Nurturing for parents and or caregivers.

Great book

This book has a ton of information and is highly useful. I'm a first time parent, and it helped me with understanding the process of parenting in the beginning stages of life.

So grateful!

First time parent and so grateful I caught wind of this book! Has started opening my eyes to true mothering and parenthood and how crucial the first few years are. Will forever be changed because of this. Cannot wait to see the blessings that applying this will bring

Grateful someone is speaking up on this topic

I am so grateful for those who are speaking up on this topic. There is so much pressure on women to do it all in this generation and we need good research and people to speak up on this research. I had a really good family life professor during my college years who also did some really good research on this topic. https://ifstudies.org/blog/author/jenet-erickson

What I didn’t want to hear but needed to hear.

I thought this was very well researched and has a reasonable call to action: for parents to make an informed decision about prioritizing child rearing versus careers and to make a plan. We can’t have everything, all the time, all at once and that’s ok; there’s a lot of power and freedom and relief in coming to terms with that.