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Intimate and intensely personal, the forty-five first-person narratives contained in Real Birth: Women Share Their Stories offer readers a window into the complex and emotionally exciting experience of childbirth. Women from a full range of socioeconomic backgrounds and circumstances recount the childbirth choices they've made and the ways those choices have played themselves out in the real life contexts of their everyday lives. Readers meet women...
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The personalized and empowering experience of a home birth can also occur in a hospital setting. This book presents fifteen powerful testimonies about this kind of emotionally satisfying birth. The stories show that expectant mothers can minimize fear and put technology where it belongs.Dr. Kerr focuses on the Five C's: Choice, Communication, Continuity, Confidence, and Control of protocols. Prospective parents will learn what questions to ask when...
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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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An essential pregnancy resource for all parents-to-be. Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy, second edition is an authoritative, yet practical reference manual from the pregnancy experts at the #1 ranked hospital in America.
The newly updated book includes information on everything from healthy lifestyle habits to the latest technologies in prenatal care and childbirth. Features include week-by-week updates on baby's growth, as well as month-by-month...
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This is the moving and thought-provoking story of a premature baby born when the mother was just 23 weeks pregnant who survived against all the odds. Renowned gynaecologist and obstetrician Jim Dornan tells the story of miracle baby Maisie, who was born in 1929, and explores the issues of miscarriage, fetal viability and when babies can survive outside the womb. This story was originally published as A Tiny Miracle in Jim Dornans bestselling book...
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Should women be induced when they reach their due date? Attitudes toward the induction of labour, c-section, and stillbirth have changed radically since the 1970s, but are still controversial topics. Renowned obstetrician Jim Dornan tells the compelling, moving and true story of Paddy and Marie as a way of exploring some of the arguments for and against induced labour. This story was originally published as Paddy and Marie in Jim Dornans bestselling...
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In An Everyday Miracle, doctor Jim Dornan gives a unique insight into the world of pregnancy, giving birth and women's health. Drawing on his forty-year career as an obstetrician and gynecologist, he talks openly and controversially about working in a busy maternity unit, and about the immense joy, and sometimes heartbreak and loss, that women experience during pregnancy and birth. In an accessible way, the book covers subjects such as premature babies,...
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Obtenga las respuestas que necesita de los principales expertos en atención del embarazo y salud de la mujer.
Su embarazo y el nacimiento de su bebé: mes por mes es una fuente confinable del Colegio Americano de Obstetras y Ginecólogos (ACOG, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists). Mediante las últimas investigaciones y aprovechando su experiencia en el cuidado de millones de mujeres embarazadas, los ginecólogos obstetras (ginecoobstetras)...
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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...
10) Anti-D Explained
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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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One out of every three women has a pelvic floor disorder, but nobody is talking about it.
Uncontrolled release of urine, feces, and gas. A visible bulge in your vagina. A cervix that sticks out of your vaginal opening. Sticking your fingers into your vagina or butthole to remove poop. Painful, embarrassing sex. The symptoms of pelvic floor disorders are about as taboo as conversation topics get.
As a woman, you can't afford to be uninformed. Pelvic...
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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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Pregnancy complicated by preexisting diabetes can be managed through expert protocols and patient partnerships. Based on the new American Diabetes Association recommendations, this revised edition widely expands on the fourth edition. Topics include: pre-pregnancy counseling, contraception, psychological impact, morning sickness, nutritional management, insulin, diagnostic testing and surveillance, gestational diabetes, neonatal care of infants, and...
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A 21st-century guide to midwifery-tons of up-to-date information for expectant parents
Whether you're in your third trimester or trying to conceive, knowledge is power when it comes to making important decisions about what kind of care you'll receive during pregnancy and childbirth. Midwifery for Expectant Parents is your resource for information about modern midwifery, letting you navigate your pregnancy journey with confidence and strength.
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You've got What to Expect When You're Expecting, but where do you go for a pregnancy guide, when you've been pregnant before, and didn't get to come home with a baby? For the nearly 2.6 million women worldwide every year who lose a baby to miscarriage, stillbirth and early neonatal loss, this is the pregnancy guide for you. Joy at the End of the Rainbow: A Guide to Pregnancy After a Loss gives you a month-by-month survival guide to a pregnancy that...
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For a Safe and Healthy Birth... Your Way! Giving Birth with Confidence will help take the mystery out of having a baby and help you better understand how your body works during pregnancy and childbirth, giving you the confidence to make decisions that best ensure the safety and health of you and your baby.
“Giving Birth with Confidence” is the first and only pregnancy and childbirth guide written by Lamaze International, the leading childbirth...
18) Home Birth
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For women who believe that childbirth is a normal event, and that hospitals are places to treat illness, home birth with a licensed professional midwife is a safe and viable option. Unlike the rest of the world where home birth and midwifery are the norm, Western society has captured the traditional childbirth model and recreated it as a high-tech pathological event fraught with dangerous interventions. Yet, the United States continues to rank...
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Ask Your Gynecologist was written for all of the women who cannot find the information they need to answer their questions about their bodies. Drs. Thornton and Schramm examine the most commonly asked questions and give valuable insight and advice about everything related to gynecology, including pap smears, the menstrual cycle, family planning, infections and disorders, pregnancy, and surgery. Each chapter is divided into questions so readers can...
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As featured on BBC Radio 5 LiveBirth is a feminist issue. It's the feminist issue nobody's talking about. For too long women have been told, 'a healthy baby is all that matters'. This book dares to say women matter too. Finally blasting the feminist spotlight into the labour ward, Milli Hill encourages women everywhere to stand and deliver, insisting that birth is no longer left off the list in discussions about female power, control and agency. From...
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