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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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This book tells the story of how Janet Meek, a US Diplomat, entered a deep, and ultimately very spiritual, journey when she gave birth to her own sons (two of them at home) and then went on to become a Certified Professional Midwife and helped several hundred women give birth in their own homes and in birth centers in Texas in the 1990s. Along the way she discovered some secrets of the Ancient Feminine Wisdom, the most key one of which is the need...
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Are pregnancy exams and hospital birthing classes all that is needed to have a successful birth experience? Do you know what a birth plan is and what it should include? Should you have your baby at the hospital? Should you have your baby at a birthing center? Should you have your baby at home? What are some self-care strategies that can help you with pregnancy? What does the Bible have to say about birth? How can you add God's "super" to your "natural"...
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¿Quién es Lara? Podríamos decir que Lara es cualquier mujer embarazada. Se trata de un personaje creado por las autoras después de docenas de entrevistas con mujeres gestantes durante los cursillos de preparación para el parto, sesiones de psicoterapia o recuerdos de su embarazo. Lara es una mujer joven que espera su primer hijo; está tranquila y feliz de convertirse en mamá, y quiere hacernos partícipes de las vivencias de sus nueve meses...
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Baby Weight provides a comprehensive wellness strategy for expectant and new mothers to help manage their baby weight. You will learn how to incorporate a healthy diet and regular exercise into your daily routine to make it part of your lifestyle rather than a chore. Learn to build your own nutritious and balanced diet through conscious food choices during and after pregnancy with Baby Weight's seven practical and easy-to-implement nutrition principles....
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The ultimate nutrition and lifestyle guide for a healthy baby and mom.
Every woman knows that the nutritional and lifestyle choices she makes during pregnancy can significantly impact her own health and that of her child. But did you know that those same choices can also affect your ability to conceive and continue to affect your own health as well as the health and wellbeing of your baby after birth? In SuperFoodsRx for Pregnancy, New York Times...
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Pregnancy weakens the ligaments that keep the pelvic bones together. If those weakened ligaments become overloaded or injured, it results in pelvic instability - pain around the joints that can be brief or last for years after the birth. In 1996, Cecile Röst, who suffered from this condition herself, devised a treatment program that is simple, home based, and proven to work. Her book, with over 100 illustrations and detailed testimonials, is divided...
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Holistic pregnancy and childbirth.
Your month-by-month guide to the latest therapies, techniques, and natural approaches.
For the most rewarding path to a comfortable pregnancy, a shorter labor, and the joyful delivery of a healthy baby, turn to this wise and warm compendium of proven holistic advice.
Approved by an advisory board of leaders in obstetrics and holistic medicine, this comprehensive book helps you make the birthing experience the...
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What comes to mind when you hear the words home birth? If you're like most people, you have some thoughts, emotions, or questions around this practice, but you don't truly understand what makes home birth a legal and safe birth option for women today.
Monika Stone is a certified professional midwife (CPM), licensed midwife (LM), and pediatric nurse who has taken care of hundreds of women during pregnancy, delivered them safely at home, and cared for...
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Give yourself the best chance of a positive birth in a hospital setting. The pregnancy and labour journey is exciting, scary and magical. Most importantly, you want the overall experience to be a positive one. But what would a positive hospital birth mean to you? Perhaps you're unsure of how to prepare or what choices are available. Perhaps you're considering the possibility of natural birth, but fear the reality of it may be too difficult. Perhaps...
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Pages 67"The Complete Guide to Pregnancy Self-Care: Mind, Body, and Emotional Well-being for Expectant Mothers"Pregnancy can be a challenging and exciting time for many women, with a wide range of physical, emotional, and mental changes occurring. However, self-care can play a critical role in making this experience more manageable and enjoyable. By focusing on their health and well-being, women can reduce stress and anxiety, improve the health of...
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Dr. Susan Highsmith is an enlightened renaissance grandmother! She is a seeker of truth and spiritual wisdom, a lover of science and knowledge, a caring mother and grandmother, and a qualitative researcher. The Renaissance of Birth is the culminating tapestry of her perspectives as she leads us through a deeply meaningful quest to understand how we bring in our children, how we conceive, carry and birth our babies-past-present-future. We are at a...
80) The Secret Club
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Have you struggled with infertility? Each month waiting, hoping, and praying that this would be the month to see those two pink lines. Have you experienced the heartbreak and hopelessness that follows when you see the negative pregnancy tests? Have you been lost in the unending "solutions", treatments, and therapies, unsure what to do or if you have made the right decision? Have you cried out to God seeking his answer nut only heard silence? Have...
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