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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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The classic bestselling guide to pregnancy and childbirth, thoroughly revised and updated
Highly regarded and relied upon for more than twenty years, this authoritative guide is the ultimate resource if you are or hope to become pregnant. Now in a new edition that covers the latest medical advances, Understanding Pregnancy and Childbirth answers all your questions, addressing both the medical and emotional issues in a clear, reassuring way.
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"No matter how science has progressed, childbirth, in essence, has remained unchanged from ancient times . . . [It] is the last natural process left to us," writes internationally lauded obstetrician Dr. Tadashi Yoshimura. "The fact that it has remained unchanged means that there is truth in it." The truth and power of birth is the subject of Dr. Yoshimura's first book published in the United States. Yoshimura describes babies born so directly into...
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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...
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A sensitive and practical look at all types of postnatal depression and what you can do about it.
There can be many reasons why more than one in ten new mothers experience post-natal depression: • a social and emotional response to becoming a new mother • a lack of progesterone after birth • depressive illness which may need prescription of antidepressants
Heather Welford explores, mostly from the sufferer's position, exactly what PND is,...
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Highly praised by expectant parents and childbirth educators alike, this comprehensive pregnancy reference (704 pages) is specifically designed for today's hurried moms (and dads) for getting them through pregnancy and early baby care. Numerous navigation aides in the volume help parents to rapidly access critical information.
The beautifully-illustrated, Your Pregnancy Week-by-Week section details every body change for both Mom and Baby for nine...
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Take charge of your pregnancy. For trusted advice, turn to “Your Pregnancy and Childbirth: Month to Month” from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
This fully revised edition of “Your Pregnancy and Childbirth: Month to Month” offers the latest medical guidelines in straightforward, easy-to-read language to help you make the best decisions for you and your pregnancy. You can trust that the information you read is supported...
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For all women with healthy pregnancies who want to arm themselves with knowledge and avoid unnecessary interventions.
Author and mother Sonia Killik, urges and empowers expectant mothers to take back control of their bodies and their births. In a medicated world dominated by caesareans, interventions and impersonality, this step-by-step guide navigates the world of childbirth procedures.
It provides an in-depth account of all the options available...
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"It is the mind-body connection that will allow parents to fully experience and appreciate the emotional, physical, and spiritual beauty of childbirth. Better Birth will help guide parents through this journey of creation and destination to birth."
Donna Karan
Pregnancy should be a time of joy and celebration. But if you're not emotionally, physically, intellectually, and spiritually prepared for childbirth, it can also be a time of stress and anxiety....
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In this exceptional collection of original essays, twenty-five celebrated writers share one of their most intimate and life-changing experiences: giving birth. Moving, uniquely honest, and transformative, Great Expectations takes the reader on an emotional and physical journey like no other: Lynn Coady relates the painful memory of her teenage pregnancy and the anguish of having to give up her newborn for adoption; Peter Behrens expresses a father's...
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9...8...7...6...5...4...3….2…1... Delivery!
One of life's brightest moments is fast approaching-you are about to become a mother! You'll enter the magical world of rubber duckies, booties, and lullabies, and your heart will never be the same.
But before all the fun of caring for your child begins, you need answers to all the lingering questions you have about pregnancy and childbirth.
In Countdown to Baby, Dr. Susan Warhus answers your questions...
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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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Christian Childbirth by Marianne Manley RN, CNM contains birth stories written by Christians for Christians and provides information related to childbearing and beyond from a Christian perspective. Christians are encouraged to trust God at this time. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? . . . It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at...
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There is no right way or best way to give birth, but if you're pregnant, you're likely already hearing advice and stories about what you should do, how you should feel, and what you should want from your birth experience. Your Birth Plan is an intervention: it's a birth book that equally honors all paths and all pregnant people, guiding and empowering you to make informed decisions, without judgment or prescription, for your own positive birth experience.
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Becoming a mother is a simple, natural act... right? It's the circle of life? You're a woman, you know what to do... surely? But, what happens, when your birth does not go even remotely as planned?
Childbirth is, no longer simply 'secret women's business', it is now big business. And, women everywhere are paying for information to help them on their journey to motherhood, only to find a very one-sided view about how a birth 'should' be. It's like...
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Mayborn literary nonfiction volume no. 4
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xix, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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The decisions that we make about pregnancy and childbirth can shape our experiences, health and lives for years to come, as well as those of our children and families. But many of those decisions are complex, confusing and made harder by the fact that we live in a world which is filled with options and opinions that can feel overwhelming.What's Right for Me? is an invaluable book which helps make these decisions feel less daunting. This updated edition...
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This unique reference article, excerpted from the larger work (Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity), provides background cultural and technical information on the world of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament from 2000 BC to approximately AD 600. Written and edited by a world-class historian and a highly respected biblical scholar, each article addresses cultural, technical, and/or sociological issues of interest to the...
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