What No One Tells the Mom: Surviving the Early Years of Parenthood with Your Sanity, Your Sex Life and Your Sense of Humor Intact by Marg Stark

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Synopsis

For women who are convinced that "postpartum" is Latin for "the good times are over," What No One Tells the Mom is a lifeline to hope and happiness. Marg Stark-using her own hard-earned wisdom along with advice from real parents and a range of experts-offers coping strategies for the first five, most turbulent years of motherhood.

New moms will learn how to:

- Resist the Supermom myth
- Bring the zing! back to the bedroom
- Surprising ideas for taming tempers and raging hormones
- Bring some calm to household chaos
- Stay-at-home or back-to-work: how to make it work
- Tricks and tips for training Dad and not killing him in the process
- Stamp out stress and savor time with their new family

A sanity-saving book filled with wit and wisdom, What No One Tells the Mom is the next best thing to having girlfriends, sex experts, and communication gurus on speed dial through this challenging, but ultimately rewarding, time.

Author Biography: Marg Stark is the author of What No One Tells the Bride. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Northwestern University, she has written for magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal and Parenting.

Library Journal

A freelance writer, Stark (What No One Tells the Bride) seeks to dispel the contradictory and unreasonable cultural expectations of mothers as well as the romanticized notions of motherhood that drive women to hate the experience secretly even as they adore their children. A series of group sessions with new mothers and the guilty secrets shared provided the seeds for this book. Out of them, Stark distills practical advice for women struggling with downsizing their own and society's expectations from pregnancy and birth through bonding and veteran parenthood. If there is an occasional New Age, "follow your bliss" ring to the text, it is still wise counsel from women who've been there. For larger psychology collections. briefly noted Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Biography

Marg Stark is the author of What No One Tells the Bride. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Northwestern University, she has written for magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal and Parenting.