About The Baby Decision: How to Make The Most Important Choice of Your Life
FROM CONFUSION TO CONFIDENCE IN FIVE STEPS
SECOND EDITION COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED
The Baby Decision is a clear, compassionate guide to making a parenting or childfree decision with confidence. Many women of childbearing age and their partners find it hard to make this life-changing decision. Without a crystal ball, what can you do? Some women say “I like the idea of motherhood, but how do I know I’d really enjoy it? What will happen to my job, my relationship, my sanity?” Or they say, “I’m leaning toward being childfree, but will I be sorry later?”
Merle Bombardieri, MSW, LICSW has been helping people make this decision for over thirty years in her therapy and coaching practice and in her Baby Decision Workshops. With a depth that only a psychotherapist can provide, she shows you strategies for dealing with doubt and ambivalence and uncovering your deepest self-knowledge. Through anecdotes, exercises, guidelines, and checklists, she leads you to your best possible choice.
Imagine the relief of finally cutting through the tangled vines of pros and cons and seeing a clear decision emerge. Merle helps you not only to make a decision but to use it as an opportunity for you and your relationship to grow.
You will learn how to:
– Use dozens of “Secret Doors” exercises to uncover hidden feelings and wisdom.
– Separate your own needs and preferences from societal myths and expectations.
– Give full consideration to the rewards and opportunities of living childfree.
– Talk constructively with your partner even if you disagree.
– Manage work-life balance and keep your relationship strong.
– Make decisions about one-child families, single and gay parenting, fertility and adoption.
– Borrow some of the benefits of the other choice.
You will also learn how to trust your decision and make the most of it.
– Includes resources and bibliography.
– Bonus section: Preparing your body for a healthy pregnancy.
Upcoming Events
“The Baby Decision” Parenthood Decision Making Workshops
October 30, 2016 Cambridge Center for Adult Education (ccae.org)
Detail
Complete Title: The Baby Decision: How to Make The Most Important Choice of Your Life
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 352
Publication Time: June 26, 2016
Publisher: Orchard View Press
ISBN: 0997500700
ISBN13: 9780997500707
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Reviews The Baby Decision: How to Make The Most Important Choice of Your Life
Jaci Millette Cooper
Three quarters of the way through reading this book, my husband and I took my eight-year-old niece to Chuck E. Cheese. Amid the chaos, screaming, dirtiness, and overstimulation, we exchanged panic-str…
Morgane
This book was a real gamechanger for me. For more than a year, I had been struggling with this decision. Having come to an age where my tactic of ‘all I need to know is what I want right now’ did not…
Amanda Ellis
I read the sections relevant to me, and would say that I enjoyed the questions. I am childfree, but wanted to read this to see if any part of me could be open to kids, and to give the other choice it’…
Nadi McIntyre
“The very fact that you are conflicted about the baby issue suggests that you have potential to find satisfaction in either choice.”This book was exactly what I needed. Written by a therapist, you can…
Sydney Wilkins
A fairly modern and empowering guide to genuinely entertain the question, tease it away from the myriad of internalized and external pressures and expectations associated with whether or not to have c…
Abnoos
Unbiased with good list of references.I did not find the exercises useful and it doesn’t magically walk you to a final decision – duh! but I feel I know a bit more about myself in the context of this…
Ags
This is tough to rate on Goodreads because I’m not sure if it is meant to be read cover to cover (or, at least, if I would recommend that others read it cover to cover). At times, it felt like it was…
Kattermerrang
Bringing a human into this world, let alone raising them, seems like such an insanely big decision that it seems miraculous anyone makes it. For some people it just happens, I guess, and for others a…
Fernanda
The book is very helpful in raising multiple questions and aspects of both childfree and parenting options, and the exercises are quite useful, as long as you commit to them. It did make me reflect on…