The Best Mother’s Day Gift For New Moms New Book Features 1001 Tips on Pregnancy, Birth, and the First Year from Real Moms for New Moms

What’s the best Mother’s Day gift for moms-to-be and new mothers? Forget expensive cards and flowers. What these moms really need is information and answers — especially from experienced moms. Mothers really do know best. That’s why moms-to-be and first timers search out and appreciate the wisdom of seasoned mothers.

Mothers Know Best: Real Moms Share 1001 Tips on Pregnancy, Birth, and the First Year (ISBN 0-9661200-6-X; 364 pages; 5.5 x 9.5), compiled by Connie Correia Fisher and Joanne Correia (Connie’s mother), offers insider ideas, surprising suggestions, and helpful hints — both practical and psychological — that helped over 500 real moms better understand and enjoy their pregnancies, birth experiences, and lives as new moms. From birthing options to play groups, from morning sickness to sleep deprivation, from doulas to diapers, these seasoned pros tell it like it is, with compassion, understanding and, often, humor.

The tips come from 500 moms — CEOs, stay-at-home moms, professors, scientists, authors and rock-and-roll musicians — from across America and 10 other countries. Also lending their voices are expert moms, including doulas, birth instructors, midwives, lactation consultants, and psychologists.

Mothers Know Best’s content, style, and format are unique. The short tip layout makes it useful and not overwhelming for busy moms and moms-to-be. The book is divided into over 100 subject chapters, and begins with pregnancy advice, followed by the birth section, and then baby’s first year. Unlike most pregnancy/baby books, the largest section in Mothers Know Best focuses on “mommy care” and addresses all the physical, emotional, psychological, and social struggles that pregnant women and first year moms encounter.

The tone throughout Mothers Know Best is supportive and friendly. Tips are geared to help pregnant and new moms adjust and enjoy this amazing and sometimes stressful time — not to lecture or judge. With advice from so many moms, one thing is clear: there is no ONE WAY to do anything, and each pregnancy, birth, and baby is extraordinary, personal, and life-changing. And that’s what Mother’s Day is all about.

Mothers Know Best: Real Moms Share 1001 Tips on Pregnancy, Birth, and the First Year is published by Small Potatoes Press and retails for $14.95 and is available at most bookstores and on-line at www.amazon.com, www.bn.com, and www.mothersknowbest.net.

Lists of top ten tips for new moms and moms-to-be are available.