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This cover-to-cover new edition is filled with must-have information, advice, insight, and tips for a new generation of moms and dads. With What to Expects trademark warmth, empathy, and humor, it answers every conceivable question expecting parents could have, including dozens of new ones based on the ever-changing pregnancy and birthing practices and choices they face. Advice for dads is fully integrated throughout the book. All medical coverage...
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2008.
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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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Birthing is a miraculous time when you and your baby will work together to bring about life. As you finally cradle your precious newborn in your arms, you should know deep in your soul that every decision that brought the two of you to this special moment was yours.More families than ever are choosing to birth at home. Midwives Jane E. Drichta and Jodilyn Owen answer questions about the kind of care, support, and information you need as you investigate...
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"Journalist Rebecca Grant provides us with a never-before-seen look at the changing landscape of pregnancy and childbirth in America, and the rise of midwifery, told through the eyes of three women who all pass through the doors of the same birth center in Portland, Oregon"--
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2009.
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America's favorite doctors and the "New York Times"-bestselling authors of the YOU series take on all the questions that arise during pregnancy, including questions that are often the most important--the ones neither parent thinks to ask. Even well into the first year of the child's life, this book makes the entire magical process easy to understand.
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[2009]
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From a skilled expert with 15 years of experience as a professional birth coach and an award-winning "Wall Street Journal" reporter comes the definitive guide to giving birth with a doula, and the secrets these practitioners use to help new mothers through labor.--
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Esta traducción al español del libro considerado como la biblia del embarazo en Norteamérica con más 19 millones de copias impresas, What to Expect When You're Expecting: 4th Edition, es más vital, menos formal y más sencilla de entender de manera general que cualquier otra anterior. Es un libro dirigido a padres que esperan un bebé y quienes no dominan el inglés o quienes, en un momento de estrés como este, prefieren lo que les resulta más...
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c2008
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The Pregnancy Instruction Manual is here to answer all of your most pressing questions. Will the morning sickness ever go away? How big is my baby at 26 weeks? Are beef jerky cravings normal? How do I ward off the unwanted tummy-touch era? And most of all, will I ever get a good night’s rest again? Expectant parents will find the answers here courtesy of veteran mom Sarah Jordan and certified OB-GYN (and three time dad) David Ufberg.
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[2009]
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Pediatrician, husband, and father, the author has attended nearly three thousand births since that long-ago summer, encountering everything from routine deliveries to tense labor-room dramas. In Birth Day, Sloan draws on his personal and professional experience to weave the strands of memoir, history, science, and culture into a fascinating-and often funny-tapestry of this fundamental human passage. --
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Complete with weird baby names, tips on how to avoid a sympathetic pregnancy, and a discourse on the evolution of ESPN and the role it plays postdelivery, Hill's tome has been thoroughly revised to account for not only the usual father-to-be questions but also the often baffling and amusing technological and medical advances awaiting today's four million expectant dads.
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2011.
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"Where Baby Mama meets the Discovery Channel, a bright book of brain candy about the wild science behind pregnancy"--
"While other pregnancy books are heavy on the how-to, Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies takes it to the next level, explaining why. Here's a bright book of brain candy about the wild science behind pregnancy that will touch on big-picture issues: evolution, genes, hormones, instincts"--
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[2015]
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"A simply written guide about pregnancy, childbirth, infant health, and safety. Offering solid guidance for mothers and mothers-to-be whose reading skills are limited and who may have limited access to adequate health care, this guide focuses on basics like prenatal care, lifestyle choices, nutritional advice, and baby's first few months. This fifth edition includes updated and expanded information on mental health issues, including postpartum depression...
20) Happy birth day
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[1996]
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A mother tells her child about its first day of life from the moment of birth through the end of the birth day.
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