The Making of a Mother: Overcoming the Nine Key Challenges From Crib to Empty Nest - Hardcover

Raskin, Valerie D.

 
9780345475985: The Making of a Mother: Overcoming the Nine Key Challenges From Crib to Empty Nest

Synopsis

A study of modern motherhood examines nine fundamental challenges that a mother will confront repeatedly during her parenting career, offering guidelines to help women cope with new motherhood, the early years, adolescence, and the empty nest.

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About the Author

Valerie Davis Raskin, M.D., maintains a private practice in the Chicago area. A former clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, she also co-founded the Pregnancy and Postpartum Treatment Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. She has been honored by Postpartum Support International for her contributions to increasing awareness of emotional health related to childbearing. She is the author of This Isn’t What I Expected: Overcoming Postpartum Depression, When Words Are Not Enough: The Women’s Prescription for Depression and Anxiety, and Great Sex for Moms: Ten Steps to Nurturing Passion While Raising Kids. She is the mother of a young adult and two teenagers.

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