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Moms-to-be get tons of advice on strollers, sleep training, and post-baby workouts. What they don't get is straight talk about navigating the workplace during pregnancy and new parenthood - factors that put many women's jobs in jeopardy. That's why Babygate is essential: the first and only guide to supply parents with the tools they need to keep their jobs. Babygate breaks down the laws on topics across the parenthood spectrum in clear, conversational...
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A tragedy is unfolding all around us and is receiving well overdue attention. Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy than their white peers. But Dr. Monique Rainford is working to better understand these disparities and do something about them.
Pregnant While Black is a hopeful exploration of the issues pregnant Black women face in America. Within these pages, Dr. Rainford draws on over twenty years of experience working...
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Des informations basées sur plus de 40 ans de pratique en tant que sage-femme
Cet ouvrage a pour but de permettre aux jeunes ou futures grands-mères d'aujourd'hui d'accompagner leur fille, leur belle-fille ou même leur petite-fille dans l'apprentissage de leur vie de mère. Aujourd'hui, après 40 ans de pratique en tant que sage-femme, elle souhaite redonner aux mères et aux grands-mères leur place dans la vie des futures et jeunes mamans....
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Le guide pratique pour vivre sa grossesse en toute sérénité !
Dur, dur parfois d'affronter les petits tracas occasionnés par ce ventre qui s'arrondit toujours plus chaque jour ! Entre nausées, jambes lourdes et autres désagréments, ce n'est pas toujours évident de rester au top, à la fois femme séduisante et future maman décontractée. Heureusement que Mamie répond toujours présente pour vous donner les conseils et astuces hérités...
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Teen sex. STIs. Sexting. Rape. Sexual harassment. #MeToo and #YesAllWomen. Today's teens launch into their sexual lives facing challenging issues but with little if any formalized learning about sex and human reproduction. Many of them get their sex ed from online porn. Through this authoritative, inclusive, and teen-friendly overview, readers learn the basics about sex, sexuality, human reproduction and development, birth control, gender identity,...
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Avoir un bébé quand cela ne vient pas naturellement, c'est la galère !
On n'apprendra rien à personne... Alors quand cela vous arrive, vous avez deux possibilités: voir les choses en noir ou, comme l'auteur, se dire qu'avec de l'humour et de la dérision cela passera mieux. Et voilà dans vos mains le récit amusant, drle et vrai d'un couple pas comme les autres, engagé dans une PMA (procréation médicalement assistée). Rien n'échappe à...
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Purity doesn't mean playing the game of How Far Is Too Far. A pure life is a full life-one that goes way beyond the ideas of dating, sex, and being a "good girl," and focuses instead on what it means to be your true, powerful self.
Purity can feel like a dirty word sometimes. After all, who wants to be told what not to do, how not to be, and who not to spend time with? Haven't we proven women are smart, strong, and able to make their own decisions?...
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For fans of Angie Thomas, Tiffany D. Jackson, and Jenny Torres Sanchez
Juana's life has taken a dark turn. Accused of her husband's death, she's now a seventeen-year-old mother, alone and undocumented in a prison cell. No one believes her when she claims she's innocent, not even the prison staff or the gang leader in her block who torments her relentlessly.
Her only solace is in her baby, but as Juana struggles to survive the dangers lurking...
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Découvrez tous nos conseils et astuces pour vivre sereinement une naissance prématurée!
Devenir parent se prépare: vous avez 9 mois devant vous pour anticiper cette naissance et la vivre au mieux. Pourtant, il arrive que votre enfant s'impatiente et arrive plus tt que prévu, ce qui vous laisse bien souvent démunis. Après la culpabilité et l'angoisse vient le besoin de mettre en place certains dispositifs et précautions pour que cette arrivée...
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"Motherwit" and "common sense" were the watchwords of Onnie Lee Logan's career as a lay midwife in Mobile County, Alabama. Although she received little formal education, endured the Depression and faced a racist society, Onnie Lee Logan experienced her life as the triumphant fulfillment of a dream to be one of those who could bring babies into the world, as her mother and grandmother had done before her. Her story, told in the soft, now vanishing...
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In her continuing series Healing Birth to Save the Planet, Shirley Ward details the conception, gestation, and birth of the Universe, planet, ecosystem, and humankind; and how education needs to change to accomplish the universal mindset across the globe. She emphasizes that we are the creators of all we behold, as our unique journey from conception to birth defines who we are, how we relate to each other, our Earth, and our future.
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In this extraordinary and much needed study of a sadly neglected area of therapy, Shirley Ward sets out clearly her discoveries around birth trauma, a work richly embedded with case studies from her long career as a pioneering pre- and perinatal psychotherapist. Your conception, gestation and birth may have been wonderful one, an experience of bliss and joy, or it could have been a deeply troublesome one. Remembering can help the re-creation of Self,...
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'Don't read parenting books before having kids. Except this one.' From the hilarious Victoria Emes comes an unfiltered view of motherhood, highlighting the unspoken realities of parenting with her trademark brutal honesty and humour. What Not to Expect When You're Expecting will prepare parents to-be for the physical, mental and emotional onslaught of having kids, as well as exploring taboo aspects of pregnancy, birth and mothering that other parents...
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"When Maggie and Emily meet as girls on the Nantucket beach, they are instant best friends--even though Emily's mother would much prefer she play with the daughters of senators and statesmen than a seamstress's kid like Maggie. But after many golden summers spent building sandcastles and sharing their dreams for the future, Emily and Maggie grow apart. In her twenties, beautiful and spirited Emily worries she'll never amount to more than the glittering...
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"Teens deserve clear, accurate information about sex and consent. Real Talk About Sex and Consent is a complete guide for teen readers with essential information about setting boundaries, coercion, reciprocity, how the body and brain respond to trauma, and communication. With this comprehensive road map, teen readers will learn how to make sexual decisions that honor their sense of values and cultivate happy, healthy, and emotionally supportive relationships...
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Details an alternative to Lamaze childbirth that includes a more natural breathing method and a totally unmedicated birth that many second-time parents prefer.
This classic guide to an unmedicated childbirth has been fully revised for the twenty-first century. McCutcheon provides the tools to help readers make informed decisions that will help them avoid unnecessary induction and cesarean surgery. Exercises and nutrition to get your body ready for...
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"Anna and her mother have moved hundreds of miles to put the past behind them. Anna hopes to make a fresh start and escape the harassment she's been subjected to. But then rumors and whispers start, and Anna tries to ignore what is happening by immersing herself in learning about Maggie, a local woman accused of witchcraft in the seventeenth century. A woman who was shamed. Silenced. And whose story has unsettling parallels to Anna's own. From Laura...
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"Teen girls need clear and accurate information about relationships, sexuality, safety, and consent more than ever. Written by two experts in teen mental health, this much-needed guide offers empowering tools to help teen girls build self-esteem, clarify their values, understand their sexual identity and boundaries, decide what feels right for them, and what to do when things go wrong so that they can safely navigate dating online and in person"--
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