Pregnancy and Birth
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A Good Birth, A Safe Birth
Choosing and Having the Childbirth Experience You Want
By Diana Korte, Roberta M. Scaer
Paperback , $15.95
A Good Birth, A Safe Birth helps expectant mothers gain control over their deliveries. It provides detailed information about childbirth options, with advice on how to find an appropriate doctor and hospital, on questions an expectant mother may ask to make sure she gets the kind of childbirth she wants, on the benefits and drawbacks of medications and pain-killers, and much more.
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Active Birth
The New Approach to Giving Birth Naturally
Paperback , $14.95
This comprehensive guide to childbirth preparation offers important lessons in just how natural birth can be for both childbearing couples and professionals. Active Birth helps mothers participate more actively in pregnancy and childbirth and brings back some of the instinctive common sense that is often over-looked by modern obstetrics.
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After Miscarriage
Medical Facts and Emotional Support for Pregnancy Loss
Hardcover , $21.95
Paperback , $12.95In this supportive and comprehensive guide for women and their partners who have experienced one or more miscarriages, Danielsson provides expertly reviewed, carefully documented medical information, anecdotes and inspiring stories from couples who have had a baby after losing one, and a chapter just for dads. This invaluable resource will help couples cope and move forward after pregnancy loss.
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Easing Labor Pain
The Complete Guide to a More Comfortable and Rewarding Birth
Paperback , $15.95
Easing Labor Pain is a positive and encouraging guide to everything an expectant mother can do – from pregnancy through postpartum, but especially during labor – to make sure pain doesn’t overshadow the joy of giving birth. It has information about breathing, massage, acupressure, biofeedback, epidurals and other anesthetics, as well as many other coping strategies.
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The Birth Partner, Third Edition
A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Doulas, and Other Labor Companions
By Penny Simkin
Paperback , $16.95
For almost two decades, The Birth Partner has been the definitive guide to helping a woman have a happy and healthy childbirth. The new edition has all of the information that dads, relatives, friends, and professional doulas (labor assistants) have come to rely on, as well as new information on non-drug pain relieving techniques; current medications, tests, technologies, and interventions and how, when, and why they are used; and the increasing rate of both first and repeat cesarean deliveries. It’s a must-have for every labor companion.
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The VBAC Companion
The Expectant Mother's Guide to Vaginal Birth After Cesarean
By Diana Korte
Paperback , $17.95
The VBAC Companion lays out the pros and cons of VBAC—vaginal birth after cesarean—and repeat cesarean delivery, and gives the reader who has had a cesarean the information she needs to assure a safe, satisfying birth experience the second time around. Diana Korte addresses the fears common among women facing VBAC and explains how to negotiate the maze of doctors, midwives, hospitals, HMOs, and insurers who may help or hinder a woman’s plans. Amid her own warm, practical, expert advice, Korte quotes the real-life stories, full of tough decisions and hard-won successes, of dozens of women who have made the VBAC choice.