The Harvard Common Press

Pregnancy and Birth

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The Joy of Pregnancy
The Complete, Candid, and Reassuring Companion for Parents-To-Be
The Joy of Pregnancy
By Tori Kropp
Paperback, $14.95
Hardcover, $26.95
In a lighthearted and encouraging tone that’s also informative, The Joy of Pregnancy helps mothers- and fathers-to-be concentrate on the miracle of pregnancy and birth. The month-by-month format provides the essential information that expectant parents crave: how the baby is developing, how the mother’s body is changing, how to prepare for birth and baby, and the pros and cons of various pregnancy-related choices and issues. With this book by their side, expectant parents will be prepared to take an active role in ensuring a healthy, happy, and truly joyful pregnancy.
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A Good Birth, A Safe Birth
Choosing and Having the Childbirth Experience You Want
A Good Birth, A Safe Birth
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
Active Birth
By Janet Balaskas
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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Easing Labor Pain
The Complete Guide to a More Comfortable and Rewarding Birth
Easing Labor Pain
By Adrienne B. Lieberman
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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Nine Months and a Day
A Pregnancy and Birth Companion
Nine Months and a Day
By Adrienne B. Lieberman, Dr. Linda Hughey Holt
Paperback, $10.95
This concise yet thorough guide to pregnancy and delivery is written by a doctor and a childbirth educator in a straightforward, practical, and informative style. It includes all the essential information a mother-to-be will want at her fingertips.
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The Birth Partner, Third Edition
A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Doulas, and Other Labor Companions
The Birth Partner, Third Edition
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 Preemie Parents’ Companion
The Essential Guide to Caring for Your Premature Baby in the Hospital, at Home, and Through the First Years
The Preemie Parents’ Companion
By Susan L. Madden
Paperback, $16.95
Parents facing the frightening reality of caring for a prematurely born baby will find this comprehensive, day-by-day, month-by-month guide to be a reassuring and confidence-boosting resource. It contains advice on how to cope with medical complications, work with the healthcare team in the NICU, hold preemies, and meet the baby’s special feeding and nutritional needs. Madden also helps parents confidently care for their preemie at home and guides them through the first developmentally crucial years.
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The VBAC Companion
The Expectant Mother's Guide to Vaginal Birth After Cesarean
The VBAC Companion
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.
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You and Your Newborn Baby
A Guide to the First Months After Birth
You and Your Newborn Baby
By Linda Todd
Paperback, $9.95
You and Your Newborn Baby is a practical and sensitive guide to the mother’s physical and emotional recovery after birth; to infant care, including feeding, bathing, and diapering; and to the baby’s early development. It offers advice on breastfeeding vs. bottlefeeding, on postpartum depression, on the special needs and roles of fathers, siblings, grandparents, and other loved ones, and on many other topics, all in a warm and encouraging style.
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