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601) Sade's Secret
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There's nothing sweet about turning sixteen as three friends will soon find out. Fifteen-year-old Sade Washington has been harboring a secret from her two best friends, Crystal Jackson and Dena Bradford. Her secret threatens to be revealed when she discovers she is pregnant. Once Sade's secret is out, it drives a bitter wedge between her and her mother Joyce and creates a love/hate relationship. Sade attempts to have a normal teen life, but as she...
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This book is not only a personal journey of pregnancy and birth, it explains situations many new mothers find themselves in. Perhaps you're an expecting mother that does not feel completely comfortable with your healthcare provider and you need direction on next steps. Maybe the idea of induction has been presented and you're in need of holistic ways to jump-start labor. Or, you've just given birth and find yourself experiencing breastfeeding woes,...
604) Show Mom How
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Find humor, help, and inspiration in this fully illustrated, step-by-step guide to 166 things a mom needs to know from pregnancy through baby's first year.
Show Mom How brings the parenting expertise of Babytalk magazine to the award-winning Show Me How series- one-part how-to guide, one part graphic art showpiece, and one part pure inspiration. From sensible to sweet to downright silly, 166 things every new mother needs to know-one step at a time....
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The world of fertility treatments has changed substantially in less than a decade. Much like computer technology, software, cell phones, and even the music industry, the field of fertility science is transforming at a stunning rate. What was considered standard care and treatment only six or seven years ago is now thought of as "old school" and passé. In Your Fertility. Your Family., a world-renowned fertility provider offers the latest treatment...
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Using Scripture and personal narrative, Courageously Expecting empathizes with and empowers women to face a pregnancy after loss with faith and courage, despite inevitable feelings of grief and fear that accompany life after losing a baby.
Pregnancy is widely regarded as the most joyful time in a woman's life, but for the mother who has experienced pregnancy loss, a subsequent pregnancy can feel like she's holding her breath and hoping for what she...
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"This was supposed to be an exciting moment, the announcement that my baby was coming. I realized that I was going through labor, but at the end of it, I would have nothing."
(Mis)carriage is one woman's honest, intimate journey through the loss of her child after eight weeks of pregnancy. Her candid account of loss, grief, and new beginnings shines as comforting proof that hope awaits in the aftermath, and that the loss of her baby matters.
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Quick answers to your pregnancy questions-from the experts
Pregnancy is a fascinating time, bringing plenty of change-and often, plenty of questions. Now the answers are in your hands. The Essential Pregnancy Q&A provides concise, reliable answers to over 250 common queries about pregnancy, labor, and postpartum-to put your mind at ease through every trimester and beyond.
Four pregnancy and postpartum experts address a wide range of subjects,...
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At twenty-two, Chicagoan Nadine Kenney is thrilled to meet her future husband, Jamie, while vacationing in Florida. After a whirlwind, long-distance romance, Nadine leaves her friends, family, and city to join Jamie in suburban Massachusetts. Once married, they begin trying for a baby without knowing how hard that road will become.
Nadine soon faces the little-known horrors of IVF when a procedure causes severe internal bleeding, and she wakes...
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Motherhood, for those of us for whom it was never in the cards, can shift the tectonic plates of your being and, in the process, level the life built upon them. Embracing this will shake you to the core and catalyze an expansion that swallows the life you leave behind whole-allowing you to live fully, heal the deepest parts of yourself, and emerge anew, not redesigned but renovated, able to create magic in your life in a way that you might not have...
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Inside The Pregnant Father:
· The best way to start your pregnancy.
· Tactics for the bathroom and the breakfast table.
· A pocket-sized solution to the morning sickness problem.
· Coping with cravings.
· How to preserve your sex life.
· The Pregnant Father's Cookbook.
· Labor pains, true and false.
· A complete hospital survival kit.
· The nicest way of predicting you unborn baby's sex.
· How to cash in on triplets.
· Getting a birthday...
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Whether you're a volunteer at a pregnancy center, a counselor, or simply a family member or friend who knows a pregnant woman in crisis, Pregnancy Crisis Intervention examines what a pregnancy crisis is and will help you know with confidence what to do and say when it matters most. After reading this book, you will understand:
• The challenges involved in a pregnancy-related crisis
• How to guide someone's thinking with emotional awareness and...
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Being pregnant and becoming, a new mom is one of the most special times, you will have in your life. But, along with pregnancy comes baby weight and caring for a newborn makes it difficult to find the time to shed those excess pounds! At the same time, though, losing that extra weight comes with a myriad of benefits, including preventing health complications, improving your mood, and increasing your energy levels. Fortunately, this book can help.
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Anyone who has experienced-or knows someone who has experienced-miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, or other forms of pregnancy and baby loss should read Expecting Sunshine, including those considering or already pregnant again.
After her son, Zachary, dies in her arms at birth, visual artist and author Alexis Marie Chute disappears into her "Year of Distraction." She cannot paint or write or tap into the heart of who she used to be, mourning...
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Enjoy an easy read of short, hilarious stories from hormone-fueled pregnant women on the brink of chaos, trimester by trimester, as they comically navigate their new feelings, aggravations and unexpected tears. Lots of tears.
From breakout author, Jennifer Johnstone Lopez, Why I Cried, Tales from Hysterical Pregnant Women is chockfull of short, laugh-out-loud stories from fun and relatable mamas during the most hormonal and downright confusing 9...
616) First-Time Parents Box Set: Becoming a Dad + Newborn Care Basics - Pregnancy Preparation for Dads-to
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Are you a First-Time Parent?
Want to learn more about pregnancy, childbirth, and newborn care? Then, keep reading... Are you are about to get your first baby but you feel you need the most need-to-know information to definitively help reduce fear and confusion? Or maybe your baby is already here and you feel inadequately prepared for such a huge responsibility. Facing fears and worries is completely normal during pregnancy or when the baby gets to...
617) Mama Bear
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In this moving memoir, Shirley Smith, wife of NBA Champion and All-Star J. R. Smith, tells the story of giving birth to one of the youngest premature babies to survive-using her experience to heighten awareness of the crisis of Black maternal and infant health and pay tribute to Black women's resilience.
Shirley Smith and her husband, NBA champion J. R. Smith, looked forward to the birth of their second child, Dakota, as they celebrated New Year's...
618) A Mother's Guide for Manifesting JOY: Navigating your way through the postpartum roller coaster
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Motherhood comes naturally and joyfully to many women, but not to everyone. Going through her own four-plus year roller coaster journey as a new 40-year-old mom, Lindsay Johnson learned a lot along the way. Important things such as how to create balance in one's life, how to (sometimes) serve oneself before others, and that it is perfectly normal not to be that enviable natural supermom so many other women are born to be.
In this honest, open, and...
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This book is a narrative of the author's journey to manifest revolutionary self-help toolkit, Mkunga Bui Bui Oracle Cosmogram. The toolkit is a transdisciplinary address to the long-time persistent high black maternal and infant mortality rates in the United States. The narrative book is the first book of four components of the toolkit. The toolkit is a cultural solution for the African American community tangled within a white supremacist socioeconomic...
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~Keeping secrets makes us sick. ~
But, what if you have never been allowed to speak your truth?
As she gives birth for the first time, her plans for a well-prepared natural birth are pushed aside. To make sense of this traumatic birth, she is forced to reexamine her entire life and the circumstances that brought her to this point. In the stories that we keep secret, we hear the betrayals of trust that keep victims frozen in their wounds. In a clear...
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