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Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
v, 230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
O'Connell is a smart twentysomething who treats her pregnancy like a new project, researching and planning. She envisions a natural birth and a year of wholesome breast feeding. But things do not go as she expects. Life throws curveballs, and after 40 hours of contractions, she opts for a C-section. She manages to nurse for a year but resents her baby's control over her body. This is not a book about the wonders of motherhood but about the tension...
7) Does this pregnancy make me look fat?: the essential guide to loving your body before and after baby
Author
Publisher
Health Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
xiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ig Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"While poet Cheryl Dumesnil suspects she'll confront some formidable obstacles on her path to parenthood, she is nevertheless unprepared for what she actually encounters, including navigating the maze of the high-tech fertility business, the emotional conundrum of pregnancy loss, and the gathering steam of the marriage equality movement"--
Author
Publisher
Mayo Clinic Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xi, 384 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"More than a quarter of pregnancies end in miscarriage. Experiencing this loss, you may wonder why it happened, what happens next and what it means for your future. You may also feel incredibly alone. For more than 20 years, Dr. Kate has taken care of those navigating the physical and emotional pain of pregnancy loss. After experiencing two miscarriages of her own, she wrote [this book] to offer others the same compassionate conversation she has with...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First Free Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
What makes us the way we are? Is it the genes? The childhood environment? Or could it be that many of our individual characteristics--our health, our intelligence, our temperaments--are influenced by conditions encountered before birth? That's the claim of a provocative field known as fetal origins. Scientists are developing a radically new understanding of our very earliest experiences and how they exert lasting effects on us well into adulthood....
Author
Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on a landmark study involving more than one hundred pregnant women and mothers, a renowned OB/GYN synthesizes the secrets to a good birth medically and emotionally. Most doctors are trained to think of a "good" birth only in terms of its medical success. But Dr. Anne Lyerly knows firsthand that there are many other important elements that often get overlooked. Her three-year study of a diverse group of over one hundred expectant moms asked...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Expertise can explain the science of what's happening to a fetus or a baby throughout development, but all the science in the world can't tell you what it feels like to have a baby: the pang of morning sickness, the pain of labor, the excitement of birth, and the joy that comes from seeing your baby's first smile. 9 Months In, 9 Months Out explores what we actually experience in the nine months of pregnancy and the nine months that follow. As a professor...
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