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"Welcoming a new baby is an exciting and joyous time, but it’s natural to be nervous about getting everything ready. The First-Time Parent’s Childbirth Handbook empowers you with answers for all your burning questions about giving birth and the days before and after, with space to build a custom birth plan that matches your values and comfort level. Know your options―Explore the pros and cons of giving birth at a birthing center, at home, or...
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Jennifer Worth was just 22 years old when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in London's East End in the 1950s. These stories encompass the whole spectrum of human emotions, and candidly reveal the shocking truth of childbirth conditions just 50 years ago.
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Language
English
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"Ree unveils real goings-on in the Drummond house and around the ranch. In stories brimming with the lively wit and humor found in her cookbooks and her bestselling love story, The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels, Ree pulls back the curtain and shares her experiences with childbirth, wildlife, isolation, teenagers, in-laws, and a twenty-five-year marriage to a cowboy/rancher."--publisher's website
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Series
Montana Mail Order Brides volume 22
Publisher
Gold Crown
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
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A historical western cowboy romance novel about a mail order bride. Frankie Scorrano has dreamt of being a teacher, but once she finishes college, she's unable to find work or a man she wants to marry. She takes a chance and answers a mail-order bride advertisement from a young photographer from Dawson, Montana. Their letters make her half fall in love with him and when he asks her to come to Dawson, Frankie jumps at the chance, especially because...
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English
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Amanda is a new mother, and she is breaking. After a fight with her partner, she puts the baby in the car and drives from Queens to her hometown in rural Ohio, where she shows up unannounced on the doorstep of her estranged childhood best friend. Amanda thought that she had left Carrie firmly in the past. After their friendship ended, their lives diverged radically: Carrie had a baby the summer after high school, became a successful tattoo artist,...
6) Fool me once
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English
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With a spark of romance and a bevy of chaotic canines (Romantic Times), #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels delivers a wonderfully entertaining novel about the things we do to protect the ones we love and the happiness life can bring when we least expect it...
Olivia Lowell always believed her father's claim that her mother died in childbirth, until the shocking day a lawyer informs her that her mother has just passed away, leaving...
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English
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Modern medicine has transformed the dangers of childbirth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the face of our inevitable aging and death, what it can do often runs counter to what it should do. Now Atul Gawande reveals the suffering this has produced. He examines the profession's limitations and failures as life draws to a close, and he shows how the ultimate goal is not a good death, but a good life -- until the very...
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1250L
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English
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What have you always wanted to know about Indians? Do you think you should already know the answers -- or suspect that your questions may be offensive? In matter-of-fact responses to over 120 questions, both thoughtful and outrageous, modern and historical, Ojibwe scholar and cultural preservationist Anton Treuer gives a frank, funny, and sometimes personal tour of what's up with Indians, anyway.
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Publisher
Pinter & Martin
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Second edition /
Physical Desc
xix, 347 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In an age where birth has often been overtaken by obstetrics, Dr Dick-Read's philosophy is still as fresh and relevant as it was when he originally wrote this book.
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Series
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
256 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"This manual for mothers-to-be talks about the nine months of pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period based on scientific evidence and, at the same time, from a perspective that is respectful of the mother and the baby; listening to their needs, clearing any doubts, and covering all the gray areas, to offer calmness, serenity, and confidence"--
14) The cleft
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
260 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In an ancient society solely populated by women whose childbirth cycles are controlled by the moon, community harmony is thrown into jeopardy by the unheralded birth of a boy, whose existence brings into awareness the role of gender in virtually every aspect of daily life.
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Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 302 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Making and having babies--what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver--has mystified women and men for the whole of human history. Over the last one hundred years, depending on the latest prevailing advice, women have taken morphine, practiced Lamaze, relied on ultrasound images, sampled fertility drugs, and shopped at sperm banks. Here, the insatiably curious Randi Hutter Epstein journeys through history, fads, and fables, and to the...
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Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
159 p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An illustrated journey from conception to birth, based on the latest research and featuring images created with newly developed, state-of-the-art 3D and 4D ultrasound technology"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction. Soon, however, the novelist's own painful experiences of pregnancy and childbirth, as well as her increasing awareness of larger threats from climate change to pandemic, force her to give up on the book and turn instead to writing a contemporary Frankenstein, based on the story of an...
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Publisher
Editorial Arcopress
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
Hay muchos libros de autoayuda en el mercado, unos para decirnos que podemos conseguir cualquier meta que nos propongamos, incluida la felicidad, y nos indican como hacerlo. Otros para afrontar el sufrimiento que nos invade cuando no lo logramos. Sin embargo, la verdadera ayuda no consiste en hacer lo que otros nos dicen que tenemos que hacer, sino en aprender a desarrollar el pensamiento critico por nosotros mismos, desde nuestras circunstancias,...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This moving, hilarious, and surprisingly informative memoir not only follows Lucy's personal transition into motherhood but also illustrates the history and science of reproductive health from all angles, including curious facts and inspiring (and notorious) figures in medicine and midwifery. Whether you've got kids, want them, or want nothing to do with them, there's something in this graphic memoir to open your mind and heart."--Amazon.com.
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