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Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"A simple, easy-to-follow guide for staying fit while pregnant and shedding the post-baby pounds after! Being a mom is the toughest job in the world. It's difficult to take time for yourself. Now, in How to Exercise When You're Expecting, even the busiest moms can learn how to stay strong and fit during their pregnancy and lose the post-baby weight after. Lindsay Brin, a women's fitness expert and creator of #1 bestselling Moms Into Fitness DVD series,...
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Simple, nutritious, and delicious--stress-free recipes for a healthy pregnancy Whether it's your first, fourth, or you're planning for a pregnancy, The Feel-Good Pregnancy Cookbook takes the guesswork out of knowing what to eat so you can enjoy flavorful recipes with all the nutrients you and your baby need to feel great. The Feel-Good Pregnancy Cookbook provides tasty, balanced meals geared towards mothers with a variety of dietary needs, including...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of EXPECTING BETTER, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting With Expecting Better, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies. By digging into the data, Oster found that much of the conventional pregnancy wisdom was wrong. In Cribsheet, she now tackles an even great challenge: decision...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Part I: Expecting strong: Your emotional guide to pregnancy. The first trimester: nervous excitement -- The second trimester: taking care of you -- The third trimester: preparing for a strong transition to parenthood -- Part II: Starting strong: Your guide to thriving in the first year -- Part III. Staying strong: The big picture of motherhood.
In this practical and compassionate book, mothers will find a guide to managing their own well-being throughout...
8) My pregnancy
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A guide to pregnancy offers advice and insight into a variety of concerns in the areas of diet, fitness, prenatal choices, and safety at work.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Each chapter has been designed to give you a balance of essential advice and fascinating trivia. from the basics of fertility and conception through to the miracle of giving birth, this colourful and creative book will be your trusty companion, based on up-to-date information and the experience of real women"--Introduction.
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A history of the old medical and philosophical traditions that influence the politics of women's health and reproductive autonomy today"--
"Explores the historical roots of controversies over abortion, fetal personhood, miscarriage, and maternal mortality. 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...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An empowering, inclusive guide to pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum life that puts mothers first--not a particular philosophy or agenda--and offers passionate and straightforward guidance on the issues that matter most to them, so that they can have the kind of parenting experience they desire"--
15) Not funny ha-ha
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Not Funny Ha-Ha is a bold, slightly wry graphic novel illustrating the lives of two young women from different cultural, family, and financial backgrounds who go through two different abortions (medical and surgical). It does not address the events leading up to the pregnancy, or even the decision-making before choosing abortion as an option. It simply shows what happens when a woman goes through it, no questions asked. It follows them through the...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Discovering she had stage four breast cancer while pregnant with her second baby, a clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma, after receiving good news, was unable to celebrate due to being frozen in a dissociated state and used the "narrative therapy" she used with her patients to navigate her own trauma.
Author
Publisher
The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"I HAD A MISCARRIAGE is Dr. Jessica Zucker's account of her miscarriage that occurred sixteen weeks into her pregnancy, and her journey of recovery following it. Drawing from her psychological expertise and her work as the creator of the viral #IHadaMiscarriage campaign, this book uses Zucker's and other women's experiences to explore grief, healing, and the power of speaking one's truth"--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The author examines how he and his wife "clashed and clung to each other through a series of unsuccessful pregnancies before finally, joyfully, becoming parents, [explaining how their marriage was] cemented by the same events that nearly broke it"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains shows how women and mothers constructed citizens, and how public health entities usurped that role, with varied long-term impacts on women, men, families, community, and American identity"--