21 Best nonfiction books like Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood by Chelsea Conaboy

Cover of Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood by Chelsea Conaboy

Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood

By: Chelsea Conaboy

3.62

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Health and science journalist Chelsea Conaboy explodes the concept of “maternal instinct” and tells…

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Cover of The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive by Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson

1. The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive

By: Daniel J. Siegel , Tina Payne Bryson

4.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Yo… read more

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  • self help
  • parenting
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Abby Craden, Pamela Druckerman

2. Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

By: Abby Craden , Pamela Druckerman

4.02

Format: 10 pages, Audiobook

The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children. When American journalist Pamela Dr… read more

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  • self help
  • parenting
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You don’t say, “I’m sorry,"

-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

"Letting children “live their lives"

-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

"...the main point of parental authority is to authorize children to do things, not to block them."

-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

"One day I have a revelation. ‘I think we’re actually quite compatible,’ I tell him. ‘You’re irritable, and I’m irritating."

-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

Cover of The Emotional Life of the Toddler by Alicia F. Lieberman

3. The Emotional Life of the Toddler

By: Alicia F. Lieberman

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Although a number of books discuss the physical and cognitive abilities of the toddler, Alicia F. L… read more

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  • parenting
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be by Becky   Kennedy

4. Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

By: Becky Kennedy

4.55

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving--whi… read more

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  • self help
  • parenting
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood by Lucy   Jones

5. Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

By: Lucy Jones

4.54

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and … read more

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  • audiobook
  • parenting
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications (The ParentData Series Book 4) by Emily Oster

6. The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications (The ParentData Series Book 4)

By: Emily Oster

3.85

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of Expecting Better, a guide to navigating a second preg… read more

Similar categories in Emily Oster's The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications (The ParentData Series Book 4) book and Chelsea Conaboy's Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • audiobook
Cover of Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool by Emily Oster

7. Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

By: Emily Oster

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of EXPECTING BETTER, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting With E… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • parenting
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
"This idea—that what parents need or want will play a role in choices—can be hard to admit. In a sense, I think this is at the core of a lot of the “Mommy War"

-Emily Oster, Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

Cover of To Have and to Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma by Molly Millwood

8. To Have and to Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma

By: Molly Millwood

4.29

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A clinical psychologist’s exploration of the modern dilemmas women face in the wake of new motherho… read more

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  • self help
  • parenting
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"So many nights, exhausted or just impatient, I have been eager for my children’s bedtime. One kid’s chatter barely registers in my ear because it’s the same chatter I’ve been hearing all day. The oth…"

-Molly Millwood, To Have and to Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma

"Prøv lige at overveje den her formulering: So many nights, exhausted or just impatient, I have been eager for my children’s bedtime. One kid’s chatter barely registers in my ear because it’s the same…"

-Molly Millwood, To Have and to Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma

Cover of Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood by Jessica Grose

9. Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

By: Jessica Grose

3.48

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"If this book feels like it’s sounding the alarm on the state of American motherhood, well, that’s… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Grose's Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood book and Chelsea Conaboy's Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood

  • self help
  • parenting
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years (The ParentData Series) by Emily Oster

10. The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years (The ParentData Series)

By: Emily Oster

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The instant New York Times bestseller! “Emily Oster dives into the data on parenting issues, cuts … read more

Similar categories in Emily Oster's The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years (The ParentData Series) book and Chelsea Conaboy's Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • parenting
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
Cover of Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture by Sara  Petersen

11. Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

By: Sara Petersen

3.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

On Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating bil… read more

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  • parenting
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Nurture: A Modern Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, Early Motherhood―and Trusting Yourself and Your Body by Erica Chidi

12. Nurture: A Modern Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, Early Motherhood―and Trusting Yourself and Your Body

By: Erica Chidi

4.31

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

"What a gift to new and expecting moms. You have no idea the mountain and rollercoaster you're abou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • science
  • self help
Cover of Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood by Chelsea Conaboy

13. Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood

By: Chelsea Conaboy

3.62

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Health and science journalist Chelsea Conaboy explodes the concept of “maternal instinct” and tells… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Conaboy's Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood book and Chelsea Conaboy's Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • parenting
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
Cover of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes

14. Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

By: Angela Garbes

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • audiobook
"We are caught between how we were raised and how we really want to live."

-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

"More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible,"

-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

"Doing this requires knowledge of the history of mothering and care work—how they came to be seen as naturally female, which is to say invisible and undervalued."

-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

"When you become a mother, you engender life, endless possibilities. Mothering is creative in a very literal sense—it is cultivating all that potential, bringing a small person into consciousness."

-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

Cover of Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy by Angela Garbes

15. Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

By: Angela Garbes

4.22

Format: 256 pages, ebook

What to read after What to Expect . . . . A badass, feminist, and personal deep-dive into the scie… read more

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  • audiobook
  • parenting
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
"The origins of the placenta can be traced back to a virus."

-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

"Her enthusiasm for the organ is contagious. Enough to convince you that the alphabet posters in kindergarten classrooms should declare that "P" is for 'placenta'..."

-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

"The foundation of the female pelvis is composed of two hip bones, which come together to form a deep bowl that is filled by the uterus, ovaries, bladder, urethra, vagina, and colon."

-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

"Throughout pregnancy, I liked to lie in bed and imagine all the changes happening inside me: cells splitting, fingernails and eyelashes growing, veins spreading, brain and gray matter forming and fol…"

-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

Cover of Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith

16. Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture

By: Virginia Sole-Smith

4.31

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that “fat” is b… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • parenting
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct by Abigail Tucker

17. Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct

By: Abigail Tucker

3.82

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows how babies are made, but scientists are only just beginning to understand the making… read more

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  • audiobook
  • parenting
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
Cover of Raising Mentally Strong Kids: How to Combine the Power of Neuroscience with Love and Logic to Grow Confident, Kind, Responsible, and Resilient Children and Young Adults by Daniel G. Amen

18. Raising Mentally Strong Kids: How to Combine the Power of Neuroscience with Love and Logic to Grow Confident, Kind, Responsible, and Resilient Children and Young Adults

By: Daniel G. Amen

4.14

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

Parenting is about to get easier--and a whole lot more effective…. In a time when so many children … read more

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  • self help
  • parenting
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Enough About the Baby: A Brutally Honest Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood by Becky Vieira

19. Enough About the Baby: A Brutally Honest Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood

By: Becky Vieira

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An unapologetic guide to the first year of motherhood, Enough About the Baby is a newborn book for … read more

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  • audiobook
  • parenting
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • self help
Cover of Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power by Rose Hackman

20. Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power

By: Rose Hackman

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“ An urgent look at emotional labor ....Hackman’s words reveal the agency of women is still possibl… read more

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  • self help
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby’s Brain and Transform Their Mental Health through the Art of Nurtured Parenting by Greer Kirshenbaum

21. The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby’s Brain and Transform Their Mental Health through the Art of Nurtured Parenting

By: Greer Kirshenbaum

4.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The latest research in neuroscience and parenting come together in this groundbreaking book, which … read more

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  • parenting
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

11 Top adult books like Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood by Chelsea Conaboy

Transform Your Habits

Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

Abby Craden , Pamela Druckerman

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Emotional Life of the Toddler

Alicia F. Lieberman

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

Becky Kennedy

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

Emily Oster

4.14

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13 best-selling audiobook books like To Have and to Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma by Molly Millwood

Transform Your Habits

The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom's Guide to Style, Sanity, and Big Success After Baby

Lauren Smith Brody

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

Abby Craden , Pamela Druckerman

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

Becky Kennedy

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

Hunter Clarke-Fields

3.95

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