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The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood, Packaging May Vary Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition

by Iovine, Vicki

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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.

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  • Title The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood, Packaging May Vary
  • Author Iovine, Vicki
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition UsedAcceptable
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Tarcherperigee, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997-10-01
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 31UKMW000KZE_ns
  • 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
  • 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

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Summary

When it comes to your new baby, everyone from Dr. Spock to Dr. Brazleton has an armful of advice. But no one's delivering any tips on how you can care for yourself. Now, four-time delivery room veteran Vicki Iovine answers your questions, calms your fears, and cracks you up as only a girlfriend can, with straight advice and hilarious observations on...

"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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“Humor, honesty and sisterly advice…a first-time mom’s must-have guide.”—USA Today
 
“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

About the author

Vicki Iovine is the happy and chronically overwhelmed mother of four children. Iovine was raised in Southern California and graduated summa cum laude from the School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. After receiving an LLB degree in Public International Law from Cambridge, she returned to Hastings to earn her JD. She is a member in good standing of the California Bar Association. She is the author of the successful Girlfriends' Guide and Best Friends' Guiide series.

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