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Published to widespread acclaim, Tina Cassidy's smart, engaging book is the first world history of childbirth in fifty years. From evolution to the epidural and beyond, Tina Cassidy presents an intelligent, enlightening, and impeccably researched cultural history of how and why we're born the way we are. Women have been giving birth for millennia but that's about the only constant in the final stage of the great process that is human reproduction....
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Fifty years ago, we learned that giving a medicine called Anti-D to childbearing women with rhesus negative blood could help protect their future babies from an age-old disease. But the same research which showed this also raised some tantalising questions, to which we still don't know all the answers.Today, rhesus negative women are offered an injection of Anti-D at several points during their pregnancy and birth journeys. Many would like to know...
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Soothing massage to support a mother before, during, and after birth
Pregnancy is an exciting and challenging time, and expectant mothers need all the physical and emotional support they can get. A massage from a partner or loved one can be a beautiful way to offer that support. Massage for Pregnancy and Beyond is your how-to guide for safe and comforting massage techniques that can be used by anyone looking to do something helpful and healing for...
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This ebook tells the story of Ana, the mother who dreamed of having a normal birth. Ana is a 37-year-old woman, mother of a 3-year-old boy and pregnant with another boy. In her first pregnancy, everything was very new, a lot of learning, studying, dieting and calmness in the hope of having a normal birth, as this was her dream and I believe that many women have today. Ana prepared herself for 40 weeks, doing all her prenatal care in a public hospital,...
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