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| Genre/Form: | Popular works Popular Works |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kitzinger, Sheila. Complete book of pregnancy & childbirth. New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004 (OCoLC)712552480 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sheila Kitzinger |
| ISBN: | 1400041082 9781400041084 0375710477 9780375710476 |
| OCLC Number: | 51324059 |
| Description: | 448 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Pregnancy week by week -- Pregnancy : the early weeks -- Finding out you are pregnant -- Planning and preparation -- Pregnancy : physical and emotional changes -- Life in the uterus -- Forty weeks of life -- Expecting twins -- Your baby's well-being -- Your physical well-being -- Emotional challenges in pregnancy -- Becoming a father -- You and your partner -- Pregnant again -- Pregnancy : thinking ahead to birth -- In tune with your body for labor -- Windows into the uterus -- The last few weeks -- The experience of birth -- What happens in labor -- Different kinds of labor -- Giving support in labor -- Dealing with pain -- Toward the medical control of birth -- Gentile birth -- You and your newborn -- The first hours of life -- The baby who needs special care -- Losing a baby -- The first ten days -- The challenge of new parenthood -- Photographic sequences -- A hospital birth -- A home birth -- A water birth -- Useful reading -- Useful addresses -- Glossary. |
| Other Titles: | Complete book of pregnancy and childbirth |
| Responsibility: | Sheila Kitzinger ; photography by Marcia May. |
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Abstract:
A guide to pregnancy and childbirth provides all the information women need to make decisions about prenatal tests, pain control, and how and where to give birth, with advice on the development of the fetus, body changes, and labor preparation techniques.
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