Two Years Without Sleep: Working Moms Talk About Having a Baby and a Job - Softcover

Feldman, Cathy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1883423015 ISBN 13: 9781883423018

Publisher: Blue Point Books, 2015

Synopsis

Two Years Without Sleep: Working Moms Talk About Having a Baby and a Job is practically a classic. It has helped thousands of new moms understand that exactly what it’s like to have a baby and a job by learning what others have experienced. New parents never really believe having a baby is going to be as challenging as it is, so having a book that lets them know they aren’t alone makes a huge difference. Full of quotes from women around the country, expert advice, statistics and illustrated with old Victorian line art, Two Years Without Sleep is designed to help a new mom from the time she finds out she is pregnant through the birth of her baby to returning to work in a easy-to-read format. The book has been used by many Fortune 500 companies in new parent, employee assistance, lactation, management training and diversity programs, as well by the military. Two Years Without Sleep is the first in Cathy Feldman’s trilogy of book about working women. The other two are Men at the Office: Working Women Talk About Working with Men, and I Work Too: Working Wives Talk about Their Dual Career Lives.

About this title

About the Author

Cathy Feldman, editor/publisher of Two Years Without Sleep: Working Moms Talk About Having A Baby and A Job, The Men At The Office: Working Women Talk About Working With Men, and I Work Too: Working Wives Talk About their Dual-Career Lives, is an editor and researcher living in Santa Barbara, California. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in journalism and mass communication. She began her business career in advertising and became director of advertising for a major California retail chain. Fifteen years ago Cathy started her own research company, and Blue Point Books grew out of her research work. She met so many interesting women who told her great stories about their experiences in the workplace, she knew she had to try to put them together in a book. But when people to whom she showed the prototype of the first book, Two Years Without Sleep in a three-ring binder said they wanted to buy it for their employees, she became a publisher and started Blue Point Books.

Cathy has interviewed more than 600 women from all over the country in a wide variety of professions. She describes the Blue Point Books project as a grass-roots effort made possible by a very informal network of people who want to share information and experiences.

Review

"Reading the trio of books is like listening to the conversations of working women who have gotten away from the office and had a couple of beers. They intersperse statistics about the growing power of women in the work force with helpful advice on how to cope and powerful anecdotes about just what it is that women are coping with." -- Mary Ann Gwinn, buisness reporter, Seattle Times

Two Years Without Sleep gives voice to women trying to do a good job in both the work world and on the home front. In Two Years Without Sleep and two subsequent books [I Work Too and The Men at the Office], Feldman lets women share their own stories, recount their difficulties and just generally vent on a variety of mom- and work-related topics. She also mixes in statistics, commentary from experts and survival tips." -- Nancy Rivera Brooks, "Balancing Act", Los Angeles Times

A sanity check for working moms. -- Shirley Cheramy, former managing partner, Price Waterhouse, LLP

Edition details

• Publisher: Blue Point Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1883423015
• ISBN 13: 9781883423018
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 128