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If you only buy one childbirth book, this is the one... The most complete. It covers all aspects of childbearing from conception through early infancy. It includes information on what to expect during pregnancy and birth and how you can work with your caregivers to make childbirth a... read more
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Pregnancy is a state of becoming: an unborn baby is becoming capable of living outside the safe, protective, and totally sufficient environment of the mother's body, and you and your partner are becoming parents.
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Chapter One: Becoming Parents
Chapter Two: Pregnancy
Chapter Three: Prenatal Care and Pregnancy Complications
Chapter Four: Nutrition in Pregnancy
Chapter Five: Drugs, Medications, and Environmental Hazards in Pregnancy
Chapter Six: Exercise and Comfort
Chapter Seven: Planning for Birth and Post Partum
Chapter Eight: Coping with Childbirth Plan
Chapter Nine: Labour and Birth
Chapter Ten: Labor Variations, Complications and Interventions
Chapter Eleven: Cesarean Birth and Vaginal Birth after Previous Cesarean
Chapter Twelve: Pain Medications During Labour, Birth and Postpartum
Chapter Thirteen: Postpartum Period
Chapter Fourteen: Caring for your Baby
Chapter Fifteen: Breastfeeding and Formula Feeding
Chapter Sixteen: Preparing Other Children for Birth and Baby
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Postpartum Doula Certification Required Reading List. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Penny Simkin (Author)
- Janet Whalley
- Ann Keppler
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 618.2
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