The Baby Decision: How to Make The Most Important Choice of Your Life
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“A Warmly Empathic, Wide-Ranging Manual” – Kirkus Reviews
"This valuable unbiased book skillfully shows readers how to stop fretting over the choice and take time to make the right one. –Blue Ink Starred Review and Notable Book
Featured in The Washington Post and The New York Times
Baby or Childfree? Which will it Be?
Is this decision keeping you up at night? Do you feel terrified you will regret your decision? Are you paralyzed by this high-stakes choice?
Now you can get off the fence and get on with your life. Imagine your relief when you discover the right choice and break free from obsession. Picture yourself enjoying the pleasures of parenthood or the freedom and spontaneity of living childfree.
The Baby Decision is a powerful, unbiased guidebook by a professional coach/psychotherapist who has specialized in the topic for forty years.
With wisdom, depth and humor Merle will help you take this overwhelming decision and break it down into a digestible sequence of five steps.
During this discovery process you will: Dissolve fear and doubt. Use thirty visualization exercises and thought experiments to uncover your answer. Have deep talks with your partner, even if you disagree. Resist pressures from family and friends, and fully consider the rewards of the childfree choice. Learn the latest on one-child families, single, LGBTQI+ and older parents, fertility and adoption. Steal a few benefits from the opposite choice.
Merle Bombardieri, MSW, LICSW is a psychotherapist, coach and workshop leader. Although she enjoyed raising her daughters, she has been a childfree advocate since 1978. She has contributed to Our Bodies Ourselves, The Boston Globe Magazine, Glamour, Self and Brides and has appeared on national news, talk show, and documentaries.
Please see her Author Page for more information and to visit her blog for free advice and resources.
Discover your personal answer to the baby question. Click “Play” on the Audible sample or “Look Inside” to preview the book.
ASIN: 0997500700
VSKU: DBV.0997500700.A
Condition: Acceptable
Author/Artist:MSW LICSW, Merle Bombardieri
Binding: Paperback
Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.
Condition Notes: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.
ASIN: 0997500700
VSKU: DBV.0997500700.A
Condition: Acceptable
Author/Artist:MSW LICSW, Merle Bombardieri
Binding: Paperback
Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.
Condition Notes: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.
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