Showing titles in Sexual & Reproductive Health

Heftige Schmerzen, Blutungen, Probleme beim Stuhlgang oder Schwierigkeiten, schwanger zu werden: Die diffusen Symptome führen oft zu einem langen Leidensweg, bis betroffene Frauen mit der Diagnose „Endometriose“ Gewissheit erhalten. Und auch dann herrscht dank des Labels „unheilbar“ oft Verzweiflung – doch beides muss nicht sein! Dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen nicht nur, wie Sie der Endometriose auf die Spur kommen, sondern präsentiert Ihnen zudem eine große Bandbreite an wirksamen Strategien, mit denen Sie Ihrem Alltag wieder Freude und Leichtigkeit zurückgeben.

La calidad del esperma en el mundo occidental ha disminuido en casi un 60% en menos de 40 años. Cada vez más parejas de no tienen hijos de forma involuntaria o luchan por tenerlos. La fertilidad está disminuyendo en todo el mundo.

This indispensable, comprehensive, and accessible reference book to infertility provides people with the tools they need to be their own best advocates as they navigate fertility treatments and highs and lows of their infertility journey. Author Heather Huhman guides readers through every stage...

En este libro, Daniela Merchant Careaga brinda las fases fisiológicas de un plan de alimentación para mujeres embarazadas y las que amamantan, así como para el bebé hasta su primer año de vida. Describe paso a paso y con ejemplos cómo calcular los requerimientos energéticos y nutricionales para diseñar este plan. Los datos y recomendaciones que esta obra ofrece se basan en valores recomendados para la población mexicana y en consensos internacionales.

A distillation of profound insights on love and happiness. With warmth and wisdom, Mack explores the frustration and futility of seeking love from others, instead of yourself—and in the future, instead of in the present. In short-form meditations, Love from the Inside Out invites you into an intimate conversation about relationships and into your own personal inquiry on love. Inside, some of your most cherished thoughts, opinions, and beliefs about love and relationships will be questioned and challenged—if not refashioned and revised.

Parents and parents-to-be are bombarded with information, from what to expect to what to do (and not to do) when it happens. But what they may not realize is that from the chemistry of pregnancy tests to the vacuum physics of breastfeeding, there is fascinating science at the heart of every aspect of creating and raising a new human.

Stai per diventare mamma per la prima volta? Vuoi essere informata e pronta ad affrontare con serenità ed in sicurezza la tua prima gravidanza e quanto la segue? Allora continua a leggere!

From the authors of the New York Times bestselling Plague of Corruption comes the prescription on how to end the plague infecting our medical community.

From the acclaimed author of The Shakespeare Wars and Explaining Hitler comes a stirring manifesto on love in the modern age. Who wrote the book of love? In an impassioned polemic, Ron Rosenbaum—who has written books on the mysteries of Hitler’s evil, the magic of Shakespeare’s words, and...

Black maternal mortality statistics have not shifted in the past thirty years. The maternal mortality rate for Black patients is four to five times higher than it is for White patients. This is just one example of racism as a health and national crisis, but it is a particularly tragic one. Sabia C. Wade is a renowned radical doula and educator inspired to create a guide for how we can all achieve liberation through trauma healing and reproductive justice. Birthing Liberation creates a path to social and systemic change, starting within the birthing world and expanding far beyond.

Basado en el popular proyecto de investigación Whores of Yore (Putas de antaño) y escrito con su característico humor e ingenio, ‘Una curiosa historia del sexo’ se basa en los amplios conocimientos de la Dra. Kate Lister sobre la historia del sexo.

A deliciously subversive and endlessly informative celebration of “kinky f*ckery,” as told by a lifelong student of kink and fetishism Neither a how-to guide to getting it on nor a collection of sensational erotica, Superfreaks is instead an empathetic journey into the widely misunderstood...

Brought to you by Penguin. The shocking true story of the infected blood scandal: the worst treatment disaster in NHS history, which saw people infected with HIV by a revolutionary medical treatment and a cover-up from governments and the multi-billion-dollar plasma industry. Factor VIII was...

It seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me out as different, were those moments when I had come up against some unspoken law about how a girl or a woman should be, and failed to meet it. An autism diagnosis in midlife enabled Joanne Limburg to finally make sense of why her emotional expression, social discomfort and presentation had always marked her as an outsider.

Zum ersten Mal Mama ist der ultimative Leitfaden für Schwangere. Fast jede Frau träumt davon, ein gesundes Kind zur Welt zu bringen und ihr Ungeborenes in den Armen zu halten. Nichts kann mit der Aufregung und Vorfreude von werdenden Müttern verglichen werden. Sie haben eine großartige Reise mit vielen Veränderungen vor sich. Da kommen natürlich Unsicherheit, Sorgen, Ängste und viele Fragen auf. Was darf ich essen? Kann ich noch Sport treiben? Welche Risiken gibt es? Auf welche Anzeichen muss ich achten? Darf ich meine Haustiere behalten? Und vieles mehr.

In this beguiling, incisive book, critically acclaimed writer Katherine Angel examines the place of fathers in contemporary culture with her characteristic mix of boldness and nuance, asking how the mixture of love and hatred we feel toward our fathers—and patriarchal father figures—can be turned into a relationship that is generative rather than destructive.

Anxiety during pregnancy and postpartum is much more common than many people know, and yet there are so few resources available to struggling new moms. The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook offers powerful strategies grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you control your worry, panic, and anxiety.

Experienced doula, Lindsey Bliss, shows you how to prepare physically and mentally for every element of having a child, from pregnancy to fourth trimester in The Doula’s Guide to Empowering Your Birth. Lindsey Bliss, who has assisted as a doula at hundreds of births and is herself a mother of...

In this book Steven Epstein analyzes the rise, proliferation, uptake, and sprawling consequences of sexual health activities, offering critical tools to assess those consequences, expand capacities for collective decision making, and identify pathways that promote social justice.

"No me ha bajado la regla. Hace dos semanas salí a tomar algo, me lie con las copas y terminé escribiendo a mi ex italiano... ¿Cómo iba yo a saber que unos chupitos de Jäger me pondrían la vida patas arriba?" Así comienza la historia de Valeria. Mientras todo el mundo se volvía loco por encontrar un test covid, ella corría a la farmacia a pedir uno de embarazo. Y luego otro. Para matar el mono, pero también porque no podía creerse que fuera positivo. ¿Puede una llegar a ser buena madre cuando aún no sabe cuidar ni de sí misma?