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1) Still born
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic decision to have her tubes tied. But when she announces this to her friend, she learns that Alina has made the opposite decision and is preparing to have a child of her own. Alina's pregnancy shakes the women's lives, first...
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Making and having babies--what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver--has mystified women and men for the whole of human history. Over the last one hundred years, depending on the latest prevailing advice, women have taken morphine, practiced Lamaze, relied on ultrasound images, sampled fertility drugs, and shopped at sperm banks. Here, the insatiably curious Randi Hutter Epstein journeys through history, fads, and fables, and to the...
Author
Publisher
Hay House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
« Birth is a natural and normal event and, while it can be unpredictable, this brand-new edition of the authoritative guide will show you how you can make it a gentle and enjoyable experience. Now with two new chapters, The Calm Birth Method helps you to build confidence in your body and its abilities, and shares practical techniques to support you so that, no matter what happens, you feel prepared and can maintain a calm and positive mindset. »--...
4) After birth
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A widely acclaimed young writer's fierce new novel, in which childbirth and new motherhood are as high stakes a proving ground as any combat zone A year has passed since Ari gave birth to Walker, though it went so badly awry she has trouble calling it "birth" and still she can't locate herself in her altered universe. Amid the strange, disjointed rhythms of her days and nights and another impending winter in upstate New York, Ari is a tree without...
8) El secreto
Author
Publisher
Leetra
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
Zorra tiene un secreto. Ella se lo cuenta a Conejo, que se lo susurra a Libélula, que se lo dice a Ardilla... ¿Pero qué es este secreto tan bien guardado?
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
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Description
Presents straightforward advice on how to promote an enduring and satisfying sex life into one's senior years, exploring how women have effectively navigated challenges ranging from childbirth and divorce to menopause and illness.
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Full of honest advice and inclusive options, Why Did No One Tell Me This? is the funny, personality-filled, illustrated guide to pregnancy, birth, and beyond that modern parents have been waiting for. Pregnancy and childbirth are full of big questions--what if my baby is enormous? Will my water break naturally? What even goes into a 'birth plan'? How on earth am I going to keep this child alive once it's here? And where do I turn for advice that will...
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A must-have baby shower gift for expectant dads! In this one-of-a-kind guide, dad, doula, and certified lactation counselorBrian Salmon and perinatal mental health and relationship expert Kirsten Brunner offer practical, modern-day survival tips for expectant dads and birth partners. Gone are the days when fathers would nervously pace the waiting room while their partners gave birth. Dads are participating in childbirth now more than ever before....
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction. Soon, however, the novelist's own painful experiences of pregnancy and childbirth, as well as her increasing awareness of larger threats from climate change to pandemic, force her to give up on the book and turn instead to writing a contemporary Frankenstein, based on the story of an...
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to keep your baby safe when working out and what physical changes you can expect in each trimester. Step-by-step exercises designed to develop your strength, fitness, and flexibility, will help you to carry your growing baby in greater comfort, prepare you for childbirth, and recover well. Best of all, you can do it all at home, with minimal or no equipment.
14) Fool me once
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Olivia Lowell always believed her father's claim that her mother died in childbirth, until the shocking day a lawyer informs her that her mother has just passed away, leaving her a fortune. The money comes with a caveat - and a confession. In her will, Olivia's mother reveals that she and two college friends committed a crime long ago, and now she wants Olivia to track down her accomplices and convince them to come clean.
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Black mothering is an inherently political act. Black women are more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth than women of any other race; black mothers must stand before television cameras reminding the world that their slain children were human beings. The author explores how to ensure her daughter lives with dignity and joy, learning how to parent boldly in uncertain times and cope with the anxieties that sometimes threaten to consume her....
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Birth is one of the most fraught and polarized issues of our time, at the center of debates on abortion, gender, work, and medicine. But birth is not solely an issue; it is a fundamental part of the human condition, and, alongside death, the most consequential event in human life. Yet it remains dramatically unexplored. Although we have long intellectual traditions of wrestling with mortality, few have ever heard of natality, the term political theorist...
18) The anchoress
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"England, 1255. Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman much like Saint Hildegard of Bingen, shut away in a small cell, measuring seven by nine paces, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth and the pressure to marry, she decides to renounce the world, with all its dangers, desires, and temptations, and to commit herself to a life of prayer. But it soon...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press, a division of SparkPoint Studio, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Whitaker is burned out. Surgical training has drained her energy, sapped her compassion. Her boyfriend, David, prescribes a brilliant remedy: a year in Tanzania. They will climb a mountain and do some feel-good medical work. But when his funding dries up, he backs out - and she decides to go alone. The challenge of summiting the tallest peak in Africa pales beside the overwhelming need for medical care in this beautiful country. Death in childbirth...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Beautiful young Grace is married off to a much older judge. Feeling lonely and neglected, Grace meets and falls in love with an Indian doctor, Vikram. But this is 1950s Ireland, and when she falls pregnant, the potential scandal must be dealt with. After giving birth, Grace is sent to an asylum, while Vikram is told that Grace died in childbirth. Thirty years later, when the judge's will is read, the deception spanning decades and continents begins...
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