Vortex of Feelings: The Early Months: Book II The Psychological Survival Guide for Parents

In a society where two-thirds of divorces occur within six years of having a child, the first few months can be a crucial time for establishing healthy parental roles and routines. In Vortex of Feelings: The Early Months, Book II of the groundbreaking series The Psychological Survival Guide for Parents, Dr. Paul Peebles returns with a frank and fresh discussion about tricky and taboo topics rarely discussed in other pregnancy/child/family literature. Picking up where he left off in Book I, OMG! We're Pregnant, Dr. Peebles examines the first months of infancy, a time that can be wrought with anxiety and exhaustion for parents, and, if navigated thoughtfully, moments of pure bliss.

Vortex of Feelings: The Early Months wades into common concerns like bonding and breast-feeding, and its feelings, and thornier topics like the pros and cons of “Attachment Parenting,” the disruption of sexual relationships, and the danger of father’s feeling “odd man out.” Dr. Peebles anticipates problems and provides parents with the tools to raise a healthy, happy baby without sacrificing their own intimacy. Dr. Peebles reminds new parents that what’s most important is not the process but the result. In a book that is ultimately about family and how to keep it together, Dr. Peebles offers solutions to issues that can help save your sanity and your Relationships.

Vortex of Feelings tackles issues like the Pros and Cons of “Attachment Parenting,” Bonding, Breast “Feelings,” Fears and Losses, Odd Man Out Theory, Setting Boundaries with Grandparents, Guilt and Magic, the Intruder Complex, Loss of Libido, Postpartum Depression, Rituals and Rites, Sleep, the self-defeating Success Neurosis, Infant Temperament, “Wish versus Reality,” and “Rescue versus Empathy,” Spoiling a Baby?, Ghosts in the Nursery, and (of course) Working Outside the Home. Interspersed throughout the book also are many important practical recommendations for caring for a new baby, and yourself.

It is about relationships, and intrusions into those relationships. And, while it is about the early months, there is no “expiration date” for this book.

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Vortex of Feelings: The Early Months: Book II The Psychological Survival Guide for Parents

In a society where two-thirds of divorces occur within six years of having a child, the first few months can be a crucial time for establishing healthy parental roles and routines. In Vortex of Feelings: The Early Months, Book II of the groundbreaking series The Psychological Survival Guide for Parents, Dr. Paul Peebles returns with a frank and fresh discussion about tricky and taboo topics rarely discussed in other pregnancy/child/family literature. Picking up where he left off in Book I, OMG! We're Pregnant, Dr. Peebles examines the first months of infancy, a time that can be wrought with anxiety and exhaustion for parents, and, if navigated thoughtfully, moments of pure bliss.

Vortex of Feelings: The Early Months wades into common concerns like bonding and breast-feeding, and its feelings, and thornier topics like the pros and cons of “Attachment Parenting,” the disruption of sexual relationships, and the danger of father’s feeling “odd man out.” Dr. Peebles anticipates problems and provides parents with the tools to raise a healthy, happy baby without sacrificing their own intimacy. Dr. Peebles reminds new parents that what’s most important is not the process but the result. In a book that is ultimately about family and how to keep it together, Dr. Peebles offers solutions to issues that can help save your sanity and your Relationships.

Vortex of Feelings tackles issues like the Pros and Cons of “Attachment Parenting,” Bonding, Breast “Feelings,” Fears and Losses, Odd Man Out Theory, Setting Boundaries with Grandparents, Guilt and Magic, the Intruder Complex, Loss of Libido, Postpartum Depression, Rituals and Rites, Sleep, the self-defeating Success Neurosis, Infant Temperament, “Wish versus Reality,” and “Rescue versus Empathy,” Spoiling a Baby?, Ghosts in the Nursery, and (of course) Working Outside the Home. Interspersed throughout the book also are many important practical recommendations for caring for a new baby, and yourself.

It is about relationships, and intrusions into those relationships. And, while it is about the early months, there is no “expiration date” for this book.

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Vortex of Feelings: The Early Months: Book II The Psychological Survival Guide for Parents

Vortex of Feelings: The Early Months: Book II The Psychological Survival Guide for Parents

by Paul Peebles
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In a society where two-thirds of divorces occur within six years of having a child, the first few months can be a crucial time for establishing healthy parental roles and routines. In Vortex of Feelings: The Early Months, Book II of the groundbreaking series The Psychological Survival Guide for Parents, Dr. Paul Peebles returns with a frank and fresh discussion about tricky and taboo topics rarely discussed in other pregnancy/child/family literature. Picking up where he left off in Book I, OMG! We're Pregnant, Dr. Peebles examines the first months of infancy, a time that can be wrought with anxiety and exhaustion for parents, and, if navigated thoughtfully, moments of pure bliss.

Vortex of Feelings: The Early Months wades into common concerns like bonding and breast-feeding, and its feelings, and thornier topics like the pros and cons of “Attachment Parenting,” the disruption of sexual relationships, and the danger of father’s feeling “odd man out.” Dr. Peebles anticipates problems and provides parents with the tools to raise a healthy, happy baby without sacrificing their own intimacy. Dr. Peebles reminds new parents that what’s most important is not the process but the result. In a book that is ultimately about family and how to keep it together, Dr. Peebles offers solutions to issues that can help save your sanity and your Relationships.

Vortex of Feelings tackles issues like the Pros and Cons of “Attachment Parenting,” Bonding, Breast “Feelings,” Fears and Losses, Odd Man Out Theory, Setting Boundaries with Grandparents, Guilt and Magic, the Intruder Complex, Loss of Libido, Postpartum Depression, Rituals and Rites, Sleep, the self-defeating Success Neurosis, Infant Temperament, “Wish versus Reality,” and “Rescue versus Empathy,” Spoiling a Baby?, Ghosts in the Nursery, and (of course) Working Outside the Home. Interspersed throughout the book also are many important practical recommendations for caring for a new baby, and yourself.

It is about relationships, and intrusions into those relationships. And, while it is about the early months, there is no “expiration date” for this book.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780997076240
Publisher: Pediatric Care Publications, LLC
Publication date: 06/06/2017
Series: Psychological Survival Guide for Parents , #2
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Dr. Paul Peebles is a husband, father, grandfather, and renowned Pediatrician and Pediatric Hematology-Oncologist. He trained at Harvard's Boston Children's Hospital and studied under Dr. Benjamin Spock at University Hospitals (Cleveland). He has carried for tens of thousands of children and their parents since 1967. As a researcher, he has worked at the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm) and as a Senior Investigator at National Institutes of Health (Washington, DC). He is the author of many articles, some published in Nature and Science and is a member of the prestigious Society for Pediatric Research. He is currently Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Children's National Medical Center of George Washington University's School of Medicine (Washington, DC) and founder and Director Emeritus of the Pediatric Care Center and Young Adult Care Center in Bethesda, Maryland. In Washingtonian magazine, his peers have elected him as "one of the area's leading primary care physicians."

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Anecdotes

Terminology

Prequel: A Rite of Passage

A Reality Tale

Trying to Please Everyone, but Not Harry

Part I: The Initial Vortex

Chapter I: What Drives the Whirlwinds

Delivery

Exhaustion

Seesaw Emotions

Chapter II: The Intruder Complex, Revisited

The Development of Intimacy

The Unexpected Growing Intrusion

Paradise Lost

Intruder Complex Corollaries

Its Power

Its Longevity

An Historical Perspective

Chapter III: Breast Feelings

Test of Confidence

The Grading System Returns

Conflicts with Others

The Giving Up of Self

Sensual Feelings

Nipple Territory…and Breast Boundaries

Chapter IV: Other Gusts

Denial of Difficulties

The Crisis of Change

The Ultimate Loss Perception…and Success Neurosis

The Homunculus Phenomenon

Older Sibling(s)

Worry

Part II: Does He Recognize Me?

Chapter V: What’s He Up to?

From Reflex to Control and then…Intention

Nurture Needs

How Breasts Work

Chapter VI: The Intimacy Drive

On the Radio

Attachment

The Biochemistry of Love, and Bonding

Chapter VII: Infant Temperament

Intimacy and Temperament

It’s Hard Being a Little Kid

The Spectrum of the Great Modulator

Adjustment to Temperament

Part III: Other Actors in This Rite of Passage

Chapter VIII: More Intrusion

Old Wives’ Tales

The Extended Family

The Anthropology of the Mother’s Mother

Chapter IX: Ghosts in the Nursery

The Mother’s Mother

Spooking Them Out

The Father’s Father

Chapter X: Guilt and “Guilting”

Guilt Is Now a Verb

Guilting Others

Part IV: Out of the Swirling Fog

Chapter XI Strengthening Yourself

Surviving the Intruder Complex

Postpartum Depression

Loss of Libido

Breast Feeding: A Few Tips Not in Most Books

Can I Enhance His Sleeping Through the Night? Yep!

Solving Breast Feelings

Working Outside the House?

Chapter XII: Life with Others

The First Rite

Conflicting Advice, Revisited

Guilt, Blame, and Me

Fears and Magic

The Other Side of Magic, Rites…and Guilt

Chapter XIII: Dealing with the Little One

The Older Ones

Infant Clues and Parent Detectives

Can You Spoil a Baby?

Wish Versus Reality…Again

Postface

Research

A Truly Important Point

The Organization of the Book

Attachment Parenting

The Intruder Complex and Growing with Your Child

How Do We Enjoy All of This?

Glossary

Index

Points Regarding Content and Investigation Methods

Parents’ Responsibilities

The Author

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