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This collection of readings from a variety of perspectives allows readers to better understand and navigate the topic of teen pregnancy. Readers will evaluate several issues, including whether teen pregnancy is harmful to society, whether adult men cause the most teen pregnancies, and whether contraceptive-bases sex education reduces teen pregnancy. Do celebrity pregnancies encourage teen pregnancy? Is poverty a key factor in teen pregnancy? Help...
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Fertility Facts is the ultimate compendium of pre-pregnancy advice, essential not only for the one in six couples struggling with fertility challenges, but also for anyone starting a family. This chunky volume offers hundreds of ways, sourced from doctors and the latest research by the experts at Conceive Magazine, for women to conceive faster. Each page offers a new and often surprising tip: women should avoid taking ibuprofen, while men looking...
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Natal Signs: Cultural Representations of Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting explores some of the ways in which reproductive experiences are taken up in the rich arena of cultural production. The chapters in this collection pose questions, unsettle assumptions, and generate broad imaginative spaces for thinking about representation of pregnancy, birth, and parenting. They demonstrate the ways in which practices of consuming and using representations carry...
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Help your readers to explore the issues surrounding teen parenting. The pro versus con format of the essays in this book presents diversity of opinion on the topic, including both conservative and liberal points of view in an even balance. Readers will evaluate several issues, such as whether the children of teen parents are disadvantaged, whether babies of teen fathers have greater health challenges, and whether teen parenting TV shows are realistic....
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The Essential Guide to Postnatal Depression includes case studies from women, who have overcome postnatal depression, partners' accounts of the condition and input from health professionals, who have specialist knowledge of postnatal depression. The important thing to remember is that postnatal depression is a temporary illness, this book aims to help families struggling with postnatal depression by giving them the information and support to rise...
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In this book, we make space to interrogate obstetric violence, from its historical and legal roots and contemporary realities, to responses of advocacy and resistance. Through the lens of obstetric violence, we are able to see overlap in structural vulnerability across continents as well as recognize the ways in which obstetric violence is symptomatic of larger global problems including systemic injustices related to reproductive health. Combining...
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Take charge of your pregnancy. For trusted advice, turn to Your Pregnancy and Childbirth: Month to Month from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.This fully revised edition of Your Pregnancy and Childbirth: Month to Month offers the latest medical guidelines in straightforward, easy-to-read language to help you make the best decisions for you and your pregnancy. You can trust that the information you read is supported by medical...
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Stillbirth, defined as the death of an infant between 20 weeks' gestation and birth, is a tragedy repeated thirty thousand times every year in the United States. That means more than eighty mothers a day feel their babies slip silently from their bodies, the only sound in the delivery room their own sobs. Eighty stillborn babies a day means heartbroken families mourn the death of children who will never breathe, gurgle, learn to walk, or go to school.
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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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From the experts at Parenting magazine comes this essential planner that's both an informative guide to pregnancy and a keepsake journal for moms-to-be. Organized week by week and packed with insights from experienced moms along with helpful charts and checklists, Pregnancy Planner offers practical and emotional support. With detailed advice on diet, exercise, sex, and sleep as well as tips on what gear to buy, this invaluable resource is the perfect...
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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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Everything doesn't (always) happen for a reason.
Infertility and pregnancy loss can be devastating, yet both are often private sorrows for the one in six people who cope with the experience. This collection offers personal stories about what it's like to go through the emotional and physical facets of infertility, miscarriage, and pregnancy loss: the pain, sadness, and desperation, the hope, humour, and frustration.
Through, Not Around offers reassurance...
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