About Ann Douglas
Pregnancy and parenting author; parenting speaker; spokesperson and advisory board member
Ann Douglas is the author of 28
books, many of which focus on pregnancy and parenting. Her books include
The Mother of All Pregnancy Books (U.S.
edition and
Canadian edition and audio
book); The
Mother of All Baby Books
(U.S.
edition and Canadian
edition); The Mother of All Toddler Books (U.S.
edition and Canadian
edition); The
Mother
of
All
Parenting
Books (U.S.
edition or Canadian
Edition); The
Mother of All Pregnancy Organizers; Sleep
Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler: The Ultimate No-Worry
Approach for Each Age and Stage
and Mealtime
Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler: The Ultimate No-Worry Approach
for Each Age and Stage.
Ann
is
also
the
co-author
(with John R.
Sussman, M.D.) of two other highly popular pregnancy books: The Unofficial
Guide to Having a Baby (first
edition or brand new second
edition) and Trying
Again: A Guide to Pregnancy After
Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss
A mother of four, Ann specializes in writing and speaking about parenting,
speaking to groups of parents, and teaching parenting courses and workshops
that focus on various aspects of pregnancy and parenting. Her areas of interest
include creativity and motherhood, pregnancy rites of passage, the transition
to parenthood, preconception health, conception, fertility, the emotional implications
of miscarriage and
stillbirth,
relationships
during
pregnancy,
planning your
babymoon, sex
and
relationships
after baby, modern motherhood, child care reality gap, parent
anxiety, juggling work and
family, work-life
balance issues for both moms who work outside the home and moms who are working
in the home, how to get off the stress
treadmill, raising kids who care about the local and global community, and other issues of concern to
today's generation of parents. Ann writes and speaks with integrity, refusing
to offer
quick fixes to complex problems or one-size-fits-all solutions.
Ann writes
the newly launched The Mother of All Parenting Blogs for Parent Central at The Toronto Star and Yahoo!
Parenting blog at Yahoo! Canada Lifestyle.
She is the "Misconceptions" columnist for Conceive
Magazine, the "Compendimom" columnist for Glow and
was, for a number of years, a pregnancy and parenting course leader for WebMD's
highly popular WebMD University course offerings. She contributes to numerous
other
parenting-related media in both
Canada
and
the US,
and
has been featured in
The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the L.A. Times,
The National Post, The Globe and Mail, Parenting, Parents, Working Mother,
Good Housekeeping, American Baby, Baby Talk, The Cradle, Revolution Health, First 30 Days, Junior, Today's
Parent, Canadian Family, Canadian Living,
Chatelaine, and numerous other publications.
A popular radio, television, and live chat guest, she is frequently invited
to talk about the state of motherhood circa 2007 -- what's really going
on in
the lives of
parents
today.
Ann has worked
as a freelance copywriter for Women.com on parent-focused campaigns
designed on behalf of such clients as Toyota,
Kraft Foods,
Procter
and
Gamble,
and Crayola. She has worked on similar projects on behalf of Netscape/AOL
(writing the copy for an online pregnancy course for the Online
Learning
Center) and such leading brands as Cheerios, Sunlight, Ford, Quaker
Oats,
and Diaper
Genie. She has contributed to Homebasics
(Unilever's consumer magazine); Glow (Shopper's
Drug Mart's health and beauty magazine); Glow Health (Shopper's Drug Mart's
health magazine); and
Spree (Zellers/HBC's
magazine for moms).
To find
out more about Ann's pregnancy and parenting books
and her work
as a
parenting
speaker,
expert, spokesperson,
and
consultant,
please see Ann's profile
at LinkedIn, drop
us a line to request Ann's CV and media kit or ask Ann to submit
a proposal for your next special event, program, or campaign.
Please contact
Ann.
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