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What about Us?: A New Parents Guide to Safeguarding Your over-Anxious, over-Extended, Sleep-Deprived Relationship

A New Parents Guide to Safeguarding Your over-Anxious, over-Extended, Sleep-Deprived Relationship

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  • Hardcover

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    3 January 2022

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Summary

The demands of a new baby can test a couple’s relationship like nothing else! When we factor in sleep deprivation, hormonal changes, depression and anxiety, and different personalities, life with a newborn can feel a bit CRAZY. Couples tend to misinterpret this rough patch as a sign that something is wrong with the relationship, but when couples take steps toward open communication and safeguard their relationship, they can face everything new parenthood throws at them together. From the team behind the bestselling Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts comes a new guidebook of short essays, comics, and quick journal prompts about the stressful newborn stage, the struggles that so many new parents face, and the skills you need to tap into your strength as a couple.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781641705714
ISBN-10:164170571X
Author:Karen Kleiman
Publisher:Familius LLC
Imprint:Familius LLC
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:3 January 2022
Weight:462g
Dimensions:40mm x 186mm x 186mm
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What about Us?: A New Parents Guide to Safeguarding Your over-Anxious, over-Extended, Sleep-Deprived Relationship by Karen Kleiman - ISBN: 9781641705714
186 × 186 mm
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Critics Review

“Karen Kleiman’s wisdom about not only taking care of the mother and her well-being, but also her partner and their whole system at large, helps us all stay connected to our partners and loved ones during a tumultuous, life-changing, and potentially relationship-taxing time… . God bless Karen for her support in helping us all integrate every relationship within our ‘new normal’ as parents. Her humor, experience, wisdom, and insight are like a port in the most heart-spinning of storms.”
-Alanis Morissette

“​​With its real-life illustrations and digestible sections, What About Us gets straight to the heart of the matter, showing (not just telling) couples how having a baby impacts on their relationship, what’s really going on inside both of them, what the big issues are and how to get through this trying time together. Overwhelmed and sleep-deprived parents will see themselves in the pages and find reassurance that they’re normal, not alone and it won’t last forever.”
-Elly Taylor, perinatal relationship specialist, author and founder of Becoming Us.

“Parents often experience tension in their relationships after baby, but often have limited time to read about, reflect, and work through challenges. What About Us? is the answer parents have been waiting for. Through powerful, relatable visuals and Karen Kleiman’s decades of experience working with families, partners now have an opportunity to see they’re not alone and have a roadmap to move forward together.”
—Stephanie Greunke, MS, RD, CPT, PMH-C

“Practical, entertaining, informative, consoling, and sometimes inspiring, “What About Us?: A New Parents Guide to Safeguarding Your Over-Anxious, Over-Extended, Sleep-Deprived Relationship” is essential reading for new (and not so new) parents struggling with a new born addition to their family.” - Midwest Book Reviews

About The Author

Karen Kleiman

Karen Kleiman is a well-known international maternal mental-health expert with over thirty years of experience and frequent appearances and interviews in digital and print publications as well as on national television programs. In 1988, Karen founded The Postpartum Stress Center, a treatment and training facility for prenatal and postpartum depression and anxiety disorders, where she treats individuals and couples.

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