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A million miles away from her dream of ever holding her baby in her arms – or so it seemed at the time. A straightforward, honest portrait of the process of trying to start a family through surrogacy – as if your best friend was explaining the details to you personally. Abby doesn't hold back as she takes us with her through her journey that is anything but a smooth, straight line to having a baby. You can't help but root for her as she faces...
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Now, for the first time ever, and only for a limited time, you can get this value-priced, limited edition boxed set.
Pregnancy and Parenting Collection Box Set includes three bestselling books from My Ebook Publishing House:
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The Pregnancy and the Baby
This is the most comprehensive pregnancy manual on the market. From the latest obstetric procedures to nutrition, exercise and choices in childbirth, reassuring, practical advice on all aspects...
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Pregnancy is a time of physical and emotional upheaval and brings with it joy, ambivalence, relief, excitement, and expectations. Adequate preparation for pregnancy and the parenting role is important for those embarking on the challenges of rearing and educating an infant.
This book explores through the literature and women's self-reports their experiences of pregnancy, birth, the postnatal period, and antenatal-parenthood classes. Verbal comments...
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"A fabulous resource for moms-to-be! In this comprehensive guide to nutrition and health during pregnancy, Ward provides solid, research-based answers to women's most frequently asked questions about diet, exercise, weight gain, and supplements and offers specific advice that's easy to incorporate into your daily routine.” -Joy Bauer, M.S., R.D., author of Joy's Life Diet and nutrition/health expert for the Today Show "Ward and the ADA serve up...
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Checklists are efficient, and in today's busy world, parents are short on time and overloaded with information. Yet the process of filtering out the junk wastes precious time, and having too many choices paralyzes us. The Parent's Pocket Checklist book series is written just for modern parents, combining concise, research-based to-do lists with practical tips from hundreds of experienced moms and dads, getting straight to the point of what parents...
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This unique and must read book by Nishtha Saraswat is the only one of its kind that deals with pregnancy related problems with the help of unique combination of yoga and dietetics, two of the most relevant subjects in today`s social context. The effort has been put behind understanding various stages involved in pregnancy in a simple and easy to understand manner. The stress has been laid on providing practical solutions to the common problems faced...
27) Desear, gestar, parir con un cuerpo gordo: Violencia obstétrica gordofóbica en el sistema de salud
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¿En qué momento la violencia y el desprecio se convirtieron en una intervención en salud? ¿Desde cuándo la amenaza y el maltrato son herramientas para el acompañamiento a una persona gestante?
Desear, gestar, parir con un cuerpo gordo es un primer manifiesto de lucha por la diversidad corporal gorda y el derecho a desear, gestar y parir a nuestres hijes. Busca sensibilizar a la sociedad sobre la violencia médica gordofóbica que existe en los...
28) In Our Control
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The efficacy and risks of different birth control options are dramatically different today from what they once were thanks to scientific advances and increased awareness of STDs and other factors. In the most comprehensive book on birth control since the 1970s, women's health activist Laura Eldridge discusses the history, scientific advances, and practical uses of everything from condoms to the male pill to Plan B.
Do diaphragms work? Should you stay...
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The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care makes the principles of traditional nutrition available to modern parents. The book provides holistic advice for pregnancy and newborn interventions, vaccinations, breastfeeding and child development, as well as a compendium of natural treatments for childhood illnesses, from autism to whooping cough. The work of Rudulf Steiner supports the book's emphasis on the child's spiritual requirement for...
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Yoga is an ideal way for expectant mothers to enhance overall health, cope with the physical demands of pregnancy, and prepare for labor and birth. The physician-approved Prenatal Yoga: Reference to Go makes exercise easy with 50 beautifully and precisely illustrated warm-ups, poses, and meditations. Suggested combinations and coding by trimester help create adaptable routines.
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What if my baby isn't healthy? What if I can't handle the pain of labor? What if I'm not a good mother? If you have these thoughts, you're not alone. Anxiety during pregnancy and postpartum is much more common than many people know, and yet there are so few resources available to struggling new moms. If you're one of many women suffering from this treatable condition, The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook offers powerful strategies grounded...
32) Mother Reader
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The intersection of motherhood and creative life is explored in these writings on mothering that turn the spotlight from the child to the mother herself. Here, in memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essays, and fiction, mothers describe first-hand the changes brought to their lives by pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering.
Many of the writers articulate difficult and socially unsanctioned maternal anger and ambivalence. In Mother Reader, motherhood is...
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This useful book gives sound, straightforward advice about prenatal care, analyzing and diagnosing high-risk factors, and describing the tests, medications, and procedures necessary for a healthy pregnancy. The authors offer specific ways to cope with the rollercoaster of emotions and medical issues that arise during this process. Beginning with a general guide to successful conception, the book explains the risks and addresses the most pressing concerns....
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Pregnancy can be a tense time for a mother and her partner, but Dr. Thomas Verny and Pamela Weintraub have outlined ways for parents to communicate with their child in order to relieve stress and create a lasting bond. NURTURING THE UNBORN CHILD diagrams a nine-month program involving such exercises as massage, music and dance to stimulate the relationship between parents and child. Through these techniques parents can learn how to analyze their fears...
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The ultimate guide to conception, birth, and everything in between. Unlike those other bossy, tell-you-what-to-do pregnancy books, this funny, entertaining guide presents expectant parents with all the facts they need to know about conception, birth, and everything in between. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of this favorite guide to pregnancy and birth, this new edition is easier-to-use, fully updated, and has a fresh and appealing new design.
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How to give birth is the most important decision of a woman's pregnancy, but navigating the maze of options is overwhelming. The Complete Illustrated Birthing Companion clearly lays out the process for eight successful birthing plans from home births and hospital births to a natural unmedicated delivery and C-sections. Each path outlines the latest research on every technique and procedure from water birthing to medications and includes "Real Deal"...
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Scholars turn to reproduction for its ability to illuminate the practices involved with negotiating personhood for the unborn, the newborn, and the already-existing family members, community members, and the nation. The scholarship in this volume draws attention to doula work as intimate and relational while highlighting the way boundaries are created, maintained, challenged, and transformed. Intimate labour as a theoretical construct provides a way...
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A New Parent's Guide to Taking Charge of Postpartum Depression! Having a baby is one of the most dramatic transitions you will ever make, both opening you to the greatest love you can experience and setting in motion a rollercoaster of emotions you never before thought possible. These feelings are affected significantly by psychological and social factors-in fact, studies reveal that nearly as many new fathers as new mothers exhibit symptoms of postpartum...
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"I delivered twenty babies in the summer of 1977. I was hardly more than a baby myself, just turned twenty-four and starting my third year of medical school." So began Mark Sloan's three-decades-long exploration of the wonders and oddities of human childbirth. Pediatrician, husband, and father, the author has attended nearly 3,000 births since that long-ago summer, encountering everything from routine deliveries to tense labor-room dramas. In Birth...
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