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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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"This concise guide to pregnancy and childbirth brings you the expertise of a certified nurse-midwife at Mayo Clinic and a certified doula. It's packed with information based on the most current evidence, yet rooted in long-trusted natural methods of caring for laboring women."--Amazon.com
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xxiii, 504 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"With more than 1.3 million video views each month and over fifty-two million total views on her YouTube channel, Howland's (a.k.a. Mama Natural) funny but informational videos have empowered millions of women to embrace natural pregnancy and parenting. Now Howland is turning to the page, offering up the first week-to-week natural pregnancy book for soon-to-be moms. For the last half-century, control over childbirth has been in favor of doctors....
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351 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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A comprehensive pregnancy guide for expecting mothers and their partners offers advice from top experts in the field who cover more than three hundred topics of interest, including fertility, birth, nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle changes.--
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Lotus Birth is the practice of not cutting the umbilical cord immediately after the babies are born, and leaving it attached to fall off by itself. When the reasons are understood and the resulting peacefulness of the babies is seen, it becomes the most logical thing to do. There is no medical reason to cut the cord. This practice highlights and calls into question the standard practice of immediate cord clamping and the recently popularized 'cord...
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La obstetricia es la rama de la medicina que se encarga de la gestación, el parto y el puerperio. La mejora de la salud materna es uno de los ocho Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio (ODM) adoptados por la comunidad internacional en el año 2000. Muchas mujeres mueren por causa de complicaciones que se producen durante el embarazo y el parto o después de ellos la mayoría de esas complicaciones aparecen durante la gestación; otras pueden estar...
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Summary of Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy by the pregnancy experts at Mayo Clinic, Edited by Rogers Harms & Myra Wick | Includes Analysis Preview: Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy is a comprehensive guide to navigating all aspects of pregnancy including pregnancy preparations, conception, week-by-week embryonic development, labor, and postpartum care. Pregnancy is exciting, but for most women there are also numerous accompanying...
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What happens when a woman is diagnosed with gynaecological cancer? How will this diagnosis and its treatment affect her? What are the implications for her sexuality and sense of self?
'Lives Interrupted' delivers up-to-date information on cancer therapy, offers insights into the complex journey faced by women diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer, and traces a woman's very personal path through the treatment of her illness.
An informed and compassionate...
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This e-book provides the most updated and vital information in a concise, portable format. It focuses on diagnosis and therapy, including management protocols, medications, and dosages. Common problems are covered in greater detail. Key facts on uncommon conditions are also presented. Medical students and interns can find pearls on pelvic and breast examinations and cervical examinations during labor, and they can also prepare confidently for quizzes...
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Since the 1970s, behavioural ecologists and evolutionary biologists have been fascinated by the biological implications of sperm from different males competing for fertilization of the egg in the female reproductive tract. But until Human Sperm Competition there had never been a discussion of the phenomenon for the human species in book form, despite its relevance for a full understanding of human reproduction. The book is a pioneering analysis of...
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When thirty-six-year-old working mum Penny came to see gynaecologist Jim Dornan about her premenstrual symptoms, she was at the end of her tether. In Coping with PMT, Jim discusses the physical effects of modern family planning, the contraceptive pill and hormone therapy, and youll discover how Jim helped Penny to overcome her problems and transform her life. This story was originally published as Its my hormones, doctor in Jim Dornans bestselling...
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Yvonne S. Thornton, M. D., M. P. H. whose superb training and peerless credentials make her one of America's top OB/GYN specialists, is also a doctor who truly listens to her patients. She has learned from the questions and concerns of real women what information they truly need to make the best decisions about their bodies and healthcare. Now she has combined a wealth of medical knowledge, the wisdom gained from her thirty-five years of practice,...
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Sabemos que existe la Menopausia y que en algún momento nos llegará y solemos ignorarla hasta que nos sucede. Pero no debería ser así porque es un momento fundamental para el que nos tenemos que preparar. Este libro no es sólo para las mujeres que están a punto de empezar la Menopausia sino también para las que todavía están en edad reproductiva y planean su maternidad así como para las que ya pasaron los primeros síntomas y continúan...
15) Sperm Tales
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Infertility is a medical problem defined as the failure of a couple to conceive a child after one year of unprotected sexual intercourse, or the inability to carry a pregnancy to live birth. According to the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, infertility affects about 6.1 million people in the United States, which is about 10 percent of the reproductive age population. Sperm Tales provides the necessary step-by-step information that enables...
17) The birth partner: a complete guide to childbirth for dads, doulas, and all other labor companions
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xx, 396 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Since the original publication of The Birth Partner in 1989, new mothers' mates, friends, and relatives and doulas (professional birth assistants) have relied on Penny Simkin's guidance in caring for the new mother from the last few weeks of pregnancy through the early postpartum period. Fully revised in its third edition, The Birth Partner remains the definitive guide for preparing to help a woman through childbirth and the essential manual to have...
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Direct microscopy provides, in real time and without laboratory procedures, reliable and compre- hensive information about hormonal status, cervicovaginal infections, physiological cell changes and dysplastic cells.
In our current practice direct microscopy or phase contrast microscopy is usually performed as an extension of the routine gynaecological check-up, in order to obtain more reliable information during patient examination.
Ideally, direct...
19) Easy Colposcopy
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This practical atlas presents colposcopy in detail. It offers an innovative but extremely ex planatory approach, to the benefit of space given to numerous didactic diagrams made with computer graphics and about 500 colpophotographs whose quality has received enthusiastic acclaim from the most authoritative international experts of Colposcopy.
The author includes extremely clear images of squamous metaplasia's maturation phases, dysplastic lesions,...
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The Complete Guide to Phimosis: Symptoms, Risks, Prevention, Treatments & Support, is one of the most comprehensive phimosis guide books to date to help with tight foreskin issues in men. Packed with a wealth of medical and practical knowledge on the condition, this guide will not only help you understand the science behind phimosis but will also give you real-world advice on a wide range of medical and natural treatments you can use to actually reduce...
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