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Pizza and parcels should be delivered but babies should be born. "Happy Birthing Days" is a 3-step method that has helped hundreds of women and couples to have more choice and a better birthing experience on their big day. Combining positive birth stories with practical tips for body and mind, this audiobook provides a guide that enables all pregnant women to prepare themselves in a positive way. Jutta shares the best of her knowledge and experience from over 30 years of midwifery, and combines this with her deep knowledge of NLP, hypnosis and yoga to.

Black women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America. This cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer women lacking resources or access to care. Even professional, middle-class Black women are at a much higher risk of premature birth than low-income White women in the United States. Dána-Ain Davis looks into this phenomenon, placing racial differences in birth outcomes into a historical context, revealing that ideas about reproduction and race today have been influenced by the legacy of ideas which developed during the era of slavery.

In the age of social media, how do pregnant women communicate their big announcement? What are the best protective hairstyles for labor? Most importantly, how many pregnancy guides focus on issues like Black maternal birth rates and what it really looks like to be Black, pregnant, and single today? Created for the modern pregnant Black woman, Oh Sis, You're Pregnant! is the essential companion to understanding pregnancy from a millennial Black mom's point of view.

Dr. Le-Bucklin's parenting book is the first by a pediatrician who is also a mother of twins. No other pregnancy and parenting book for multiples offers this unique and much-needed perspective. Twins 101 features practical advice and well-researched information. From maintaining a healthy twin pregnancy to meeting the daily challenge of caring for twins, Twins 101 guides families through each stage with insightful tips, practical advice, useful resources, and inspirational stories. 

Midwives in the United States live and work in a complex regulatory environment that is a direct result of state and medical intervention into women's reproductive capacity. In Birthing a Movement, Renee Ann Cramer draws on over a decade of ethnographic and archival research to examine the interactions of law, politics, and activism surrounding midwifery care. 

In I Love My Kids, but I Want My Body Back, Dr Malcolm Linsell shares his patients’ experiences so other women will know what to expect when contemplating plastic surgery. From initial consultation to surgery and beyond, 10 women reveal how their body image issues had a negative impact on their mental and physical health, relationships, and quality of life. Their stories are honest accounts of how they found the courage to change what they didn’t like about their bodies, creating for themselves a calm self-assurance that radiates out to those around them.

Getting Pregnant for Dummies offers up-to-date advice on the current methods and treatments to assist in conception. This guide will help you understand why infertility occurs, its contributing risk factors, and the steps to take to increase the chances of giving birth. From in vitro fertilization to third party reproduction (donor sperm or eggs and gestational surrogacy) to lifestyle changes to understanding genetic information to insurance, legal and medication considerations, this book covers all the information you need to navigate your way to the best possible results.

Celebrated doula, healer, yoga teacher, and parenting coach Lori Bregman brings a holistic guide to being a more balanced, authentic, and joyful mother. Introducing the "five expressions of motherhood" - Action Mama, Flow Mama, Rebel Mama, Vulnerable Mama, and Free Mama - Lori offers supportive advice, exercises, meditations, and yoga practices to cultivate a healthy balanced life and stronger bonds. Accessible and encouraging, Mamaste provides foundational tools for parenting, relatable examples, and exercises to build self-awareness and mindfulness. 

From the author of the hugely successful The Sensational Baby Sleep Plan comes a follow-up guide helping parents to handle sleep issues in toddlers and children aged over 12 months.

Pregnancy and birth can stretch our bodies to their limit and beyond. Incontinence, birth injuries and birth traumas have been a taboo topic for far too long, and, until now, this has prevented women from fully regaining their strength. Stronger is the must-listen guide to the bodily changes encountered by all women following pregnancy, with explanations, exercises and friendly, accessible advice to protect, stabilise and rehabilitate.

Sara Casey Connell and her mother hadn't been particularly close for a long time. But when Connell lost a third pregnancy after years of fertility treatments and one late-term stillbirth of twins, her mother offered to be a surrogate for her child - and Connell and her husband accepted. Two years later, Finnean Lee Connell - a healthy baby boy - was born. Bringing in Finn is the remarkable story of one woman's hard-fought, and often painful, journey to motherhood.

This modern hypnobirthing book shows you how you can incorporate hypnobirthing techniques into every stage of your pregnancy, creating a safe space for you and your baby to return to time and again. Anthonissa Moger (The Hypnobirthing Midwife)'s holistic approach to hypnobirthing opens out the benefits to embrace aromatherapy, yoga, partner work, mindset exercises and more.    

"Из книги ты узнаешь, какими способами можно привести эмоциональное и физическое состояние в необходимое для зачатия и здорового протекания беременности. Я поделюсь с тобой тем, что прожила и прочувствовала сама. Ты узнаешь, что предлагает нам официальная медицина, к каким специалистам стоит обратиться. Как медики могут помочь или, наоборот, затормозить процесс, чему стоит верить, а чему нет. Мы затронем, а иногда погрузимся довольно глубоко.

Divisa tra gioia, entusiasmo e panico totale, ti sei appena immersa in una nuova vita fatta di attese, ansie, scelte, sogni, poi di latte e coccole, pannolini e poppate, di sonni interrotti e bisogni da soddisfare. Qualche amica prova ad avvisarti, altre invece trasformano quel dopo in un racconto tanto idilliaco quanto improbabile.

On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision, asserting that the Constitution did not confer the right to abortion. This ruling, in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case, was the culmination of a half-century of pro-life activism promoting the idea that fetuses are people and therefore entitled to the rights and protections that the Constitution guarantees. But it was also the product of a much longer history of archaic ideas about the relationship between pregnant people and the fetuses they carry.

Du möchtest Mama werden und hast noch irgendwelche Bedenken, dass es nicht klappen könnte? Oder Du möchtest den Prozess vereinfachen und entspannter angehen? Dann höre diese Meditation regelmässig während der nächsten Wochen. Vielleicht, je nach Situation, in Kombination mit unserer «Angstfrei»-Meditation. Lerne Deinem Körper wieder zu vertrauen und Dein Mindset aufs Muttersein auszurichten.

Die große Baby-Fibel - Alles was Eltern wissen müssen! Wie funktioniert eine natürliche Geburt? Wie oft sollte man am Anfang stillen? Wie sollte man das Baby am besten halten? Wie baue ich Bindung auf? Was ist der ideale Schlafplatz? Wie schaffe ich es, dass mein Baby durchschläft? Ab wann kann mein Baby alleine schlafen? Unsere moderne Welt ist alles andere als babygerecht! Ein Baby zu bekommen, ist die schönste Sache der Welt. Zugleich ist jede Geburt absolut einzigartig und der Beginn eines völlig neuen Lebensabschnitts.

My Body Is a Big Fat Temple, a memoir of pregnancy and early motherhood, follows a writer as she debates having children, miscarries, faces morning sickness, uncertainty, physical impairments, labor, breastfeeding, the "baby blues," the heartache of not loving her son as she thinks she should, parenting through a plague, until finally (basically, mostly) blossoming into her new identity.

Gerade emotionale Themen wie Familienplanung, Schwangerschaft, Geburt und die erste Zeit mit Baby bergen viel Unsicherheit, Sorge und Ängste. Die neue wachsende Verantwortung lässt werdende Eltern nach vertrauensvoller Wissensvermittlung verlangen. Hier setzt Dr. med. Konstantin Wagner, bekannt durch seine Plattform "Richtig schwanger", mit seinem Buch an: Kompaktes und fundiertes medizinisches Wissen wird verständlich und auf eine lockere Weise vermittelt. Immer nach dem Motto: Wissen schafft Vertrauen!

SUPPORT YOUR NATURAL CHILDBIRTH PROGRAM AND SEND LOVING ENERGY TO YOUR UNBORN CHILDThis incredibly powerful two-part audio program contains hypnotic suggestions regarding an easy birth, a healthy baby, and a quick return to prepregancy weight, along with visualizations to open the door to...