Looking After You - Booklist
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Marvellous Motherhood: the essential guide to looking and feeling great after pregnancy
Jo Glanville-Blackburn (2005) |
This book's focus is the new mother and aims to assist with the many changes happening physically, emotionally and spiritually so that the experience of motherhood is positive and enjoyable. Attractively presented with lots of colour photos, and easy to read text, it offers plenty of practical advice about health and wellbeing including information on eating well, exercise and natural remedies. |
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The Pram Diet
Rebecca Mugridge (2009) |
The author writes her own story of how she felt depressed, unfit and unhappy a few months after the birth of her daughter. One day, she went on a long, life-affirming walk and has never looked back. With the pram as a starting point, the author describes her journey to better physical, emotional and mental health, with plenty of advice about diet and lifestyle included along the way.
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Fit Mama: A Real Life Fitness Guide for the New Mom
Stacey Denney & Kate Hodson (2007)
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This book is more concerned with assisting new mums to achieve health and fitness rather than the need (obsession?) to be thin again. It offers a more holistic approach to health and wellbeing and includes advice about how to gradually implement an exercise routine and information about pelvic floor exercises and diet. |
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Time For Mom-Me: 5 Essential Strategies for a Mother's Self Care
Mia Redrick (2008) |
In this book the author aims to create both dialogue and a support community among women as mothers that address the realities of being a mum, as they relate to self definition. The author guides the reader through strategies to ensure mums include their own needs in the daily schedule and to enable them to take charge of their lives. |
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Recipe for A Balanced Mom: An Inspirational Cookbook
Elaine Schardian, Julie Knowles & Lisa Jarabocchia (2005)
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The main focus of this book is the necessity to maintain balance in life. A way to ensure this is to eat healthily and the book provides a wide range of wholesome recipes with healthier replacement suggestions where possible. The emphasis is on the importance of nutrition to the mind as well as the body. |
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The Mother Trip: Hip Mama's Guide to Staying Sane in the Chaos of Motherhood
Ariel Gore (2000) |
The author provides an amusing narrative about motherhood, based on her own experiences. The book offers plenty of useful advice and words of wisdom, all in a very readable and entertaining way. |
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The Balanced Mom: Raising Your Kids Without Losing Your Self
Bria Simpson (2006) |
This book also deals with the balance factor and the importance of maintaining your sense of self once you become a mum. It offers many sensible tips to assist in creating time and space for you, outlining what the benefits of doing this will ultimately be both for you and your children. |
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Australian Healthy Shopping Guide
Caron Milham (2007) |
Provides lots of information on a wide range of food products commonly bought in supermarkets. Includes a useful section on understanding food labels, clarifying what some nutritional statements actually mean and offering some recommendations for healthier choices. |
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Exercise and the F Word...Fun
Martha Lourey-Bird (2007) |
The author rightly points out that modern technological society has created an activity void in our lives, which we have to consciously fill with physical activity. As this does not sound like much fun, the author sets out to prove that not only is exercise achievable with small children, it is actually fun too. |
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Mother's Essential Personal Toolkit: tips, Tools and Techniques to Help Your Inner Butterfly Flourish (booklet)
Kerry Townsend (2009) |
This booklet aims to provide mothers with easy tips and techniques to assist in personal growth and development.
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Also see our Pregnancy and Birth booklist
All books on this list can be borrowed by any woman in Queensland, Australia at no cost. Library books can be collected personally or can be posted out. We lend one book at a time for up to four weeks.
To return in person: 165 Gregory Terrace, Spring Hill Qld 4000
To return by post: PO Box 665, Spring Hill Qld 4004.
Reply paid: Whilst we appreciate your willingness to pay the return postage, as it enables us to use our funding to deliver more services, we recognise that some people may be unable to afford this cost. If this is the case, please just address the book to: Women's Health Queensland Wide, PO Box 665, Reply Paid 665, Spring Hill Qld 4004 (no postage required).
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Last Modified:
February 2010
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