Vanessa Coffey has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors, with an average listener rating of 3.9★ across 13 ratings. The most-rated is The Secret Daughter.
The Secret Daughter
Summary
As I saw my newborn baby’s face for the first time, I tried desperately to capture her face in my mind - to stamp it onto my eyelids. As she was taken from me, I knew I might never see my daughter again. Thirty-seven years later... 'You were adopted'. Three short words and Sabina’s life fractures. There would forever be a before those words and an after. Pregnant with her own child, Sabina can’t understand how a mother could abandon her daughter or why her parents have kept the past a secret. Determined to find the woman who gave her away, what she discovers will change everything, not just for Sabina but for the women who have loved her all these years. From the best-selling author of Me Without You comes another touching, beautifully told story about the pain of separation and the enduring strength of love.
©2015 Kelly Rimmer (P)2016 Audible, Ltd
Sleeping Like a Baby
Summary
Are you obsessed with your baby's sleep? Do you feel weak because you can't leave him to cry himself to sleep? Do you need to relax more and enjoy being a parent? Parenting expert Pinky McKay offers a natural, intuitive approach to solving your little ones' sleep problems and gives practical tips on how to understand your baby's tired cues, create a safe sleeping environment, gently settle babies and toddlers and feed infants to encourage sleep. Sleeping Like a Baby is a must-listen for stress-free, guilt-free parenting and offers down-to-earth and heartening advice on helping babies (and their parents) to sleep better.
©2007 Pinky McKay (P)2016 Audible, Ltd
Toddler Tactics
Summary
Do you automatically cut toast into fingers? Appreciate finger painting as much as fine art? Hear 'no' a million times a day? If the answer is yes, then Toddler Tactics is for you. Being the parent of a toddler can be exciting, inspiring, and exhausting - all at once! Your adorable little baby has now become a moving, grooving tot with attitude, and it will take all your patience and skill to deal with these changes. Parenting expert Pinky McKay explains what to do at each stage of development and offers fuss-free advice on: communicating with your toddler; discipline and good manners; good eating habits; routines for play and sleep: toilet training; and family dynamics. Toddler Tactics is bursting with practical strategies for making the toddler years the exhilarating experience they should be.
©2008 Pinky McKay (P)2015 Audible, Ltd
Parenting by Heart
Summary
In Parenting by Heart, Pinky McKay encourages parents to trust their own instincts and connections with their children. Practical advice is offered with Pinky's trademark humour and covers birth choices, breast-feeding, postnatal depression, sleep, crying, gentle discipline, and building self-esteem (yours and your child's!). Along the way Pinky gives excellent advice for dealing with unwanted inquiries from family and friends, redefines the good/bad baby continuum to 'real' babies, and considers where the relationship with your partner fits into all this activity! /p> Parenting by Heart will show you how to explore your options and take charge. Most of all, lighten up, laugh, enjoy! Trust yourself. Trust your child. Trust your feelings. From the author: When you follow your heart rather than a single parenting method, you seldom fit neatly into a stereotype. I have sampled various options from the rich smorgasbord of childrearing methods to form my own rich collage, which has often meant going against popular opinion. At times following your heart can also result in challenges as you confront the wider world: I have rocked up to weekend workshops with creative directors from some of Melbourne's top advertising agencies - and a two-year-old at my breast. These people were more familiar with the association between breasts and fast cars! To parent against the mainstream takes courage (and a deaf ear). To care for children and to nourish their identities requires a strong sense of self. Because there are as many ways of caring as there are families, and because often sharing another's experience validates your own, Parenting by Heart includes the voices of other parents (mothers and fathers) who share their feelings - of joy, sadness, fear, frustration, hope, and humour. I have received overwhelming feedback from parents who say thank you for giving them 'permission' to respond to their child. I dont know which is sadder - that parents feel they need permission or that there is so much rigid advice undermining parental confidence.
©2013 Pinky McKay (P)2015 Audible, Ltd
100 Ways to Calm the Crying
Summary
100 Ways to Calm the Crying addresses the reasons babies cry, from the normal developmental changes that may make them more sensitive to painful conditions such as colic and reflux. Along the way Pinky McKay offers gentle strategies to help you calm and connect with your baby, practical tips to help you cope with crying and sleepless nights, and ways to identify symptoms that may require professional help. Pinky McKay writes for a number of publications internationally, including Woman’s Day, Essential Baby, The Natural Parent Magazine, My Child Magazine and Gentle Parenting.com. She is an international board-certified lactation consultant, qualified infant massage instructor, and a regular guest speaker at maternity hospitals, where she teaches safe and gentle settling techniques to new parents. Pinky is the author of Toddler Tactics, Parenting by Heart and Sleeping Like a Baby. A note from the editor: Yet another gorgeous book from Pinky to soothe anxious parents (this was originally published by Lothian in 2002). The line 'listen to your baby; listen to your heart; trust the connection between you' sums up Pinky's empowering message. As with her other books, this is beautifully written, and the anecdotes from other parents are a major strength.
©2008 Pinky McKay (P)2015 Audible, Ltd