"My goal: Less guilt, more common sense  --  whether we're talking baby care, child care, elder care, or self care."
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About Paula Spencer: I'm a writer-editor-producer-consultant who specializes in women's relationships with family,  friends, and self across the life stages, birth to eldercare. My 11 books include Momfidence! and seven collaborations about parenting and health. I'm also a longtime Woman's Day columnist/blogger; a senior editor of Caring.com; a contributing editor to Parenting and Babytalk, and a consultant and speaker on family matters. A mother of four, I live momfidently (on good days) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Way more details here.

Specialties:

Parenting

  • MOMFIDENCE book, column, website, and blog
  • Coauthor, NYT bestseller The Happiest Toddler on the Block with Dr. Harvey Karp
  • Coauthor, Bright From the Start with Dr. Jill Stamm
  • Author of three Parenting Magazine guidebooks & Parenting: The New Mom's Gift Kit
  • Consultant to BabyCenter.com, Gerber, First Moments, Kajeet, and other family-friendly companies
  • Contributing editor, Parenting and Babytalk magazines
  • My parenting articles also in Family Life, Parents, Newsweek, Reader's Digest, Redbook, Grandparenting
  • Interviewed as expert source by Real Simple, Ladies Home Journal, New Choices, Fit Pregnancy, WebMD, ParentCenter, MOMCentral, American Baby, "Meet the Peetes," many others.
  • Not least, mom of four


Elder Care

  • A senior editor of Caring.com, for the adult children of aging parents -- the next huge topic in American family life
  • Caring Currents blogger, twice weekly
  • Caring This Week newsletter editor
  • Focus on the emotional/relational aspects of caregiving, Alzheimer's/dementia, caregiver stress, senior health


Pregnancy

  • Author of 3 pregnancy guides: The Pregnancy Journal gift book, Everything Else You Need to Know When You're Expecting, and  Parenting's Guide to Your Pregnancy
  • Coauthor, Body, Soul and Baby with Duke Integrative Medicine director Tracy Gaudet
  • More than three years of life spent pregnant!


Women's Health / Women's Lives / Family Health

  • "Suburban Farmgirl" blogger for MaryJanesFarm.org
  • Coauthor, The V Book with Harvard's Dr. Elizabeth Stewart
  • Coauthor, Consciously Female with Dr. Tracy Gaudet, director of Duke Integrative Medicine
  • Dozens of magazine articles: Health, USA Weekend, Newsweek, Glamour, Redbook, Weight Watchers, Arthritis Today, elsewhere
  • Awards from American Speech, Language, Hearing Association; Arthritis Foundation; National Political Women's Caucus; others


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