Birth Pregnancy

The first audiobook to truly focus solely on the birth of your baby (rather than pregnancy) and without a specific agenda. This is a comprehensive everything-you-need-to-know guide to childbirth from leading Australian obstetrician and international researcher into safe childbirth, Professor Stephen Tong. Most parents-to-be and their support people have little knowledge of what to expect in the birthing suite. Drawing on his extensive experience in the field, Professor Tong guides you through vital information to help prepare for a safe and happy birth day.

Congratulations! You’re about to begin a transformative journey. Here’s how to fully prepare and make it a wondrous experience for you, your wife, and your new baby.

Are you sure to be ready for your first-time pregnancy? Are you experiencing both happy and fearful moods? You’re not alone. Everyday only in the United States, there are almost 17.000 new pregnancies. The average person feels the weight deriving from parents and relatives, listening only to their experience. This makes pregnancy a truly daunting chore, not the exciting and liberating journey that it’s meant to be. In the beginning you bravely endured high stress levels always wondering how you could have approached it in a correct way?

This guide will answer the questions you are asking yourself now. Because we want to communicate effectively with people who are interested in understanding all about pregnancy, its stages, and everything that goes into giving birth to a child, we have used simple language.

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It is time to stop worrying and start to replace those sleepless nights for a well-informed pregnancy. One step at a time, we’ll explore the unknown together. No more burning questions, no more anxiety, but an easy-to-consume and straightforward guide every first-time mom will benefit from. So if you want to take care of yourself during pregnancy and know what to expect, then you should listen to this audiobook today!

Your first pregnancy is an exciting time in life! It can also be a bit terrifying. You have many questions and you don’t know what to expect. Questions like, how do you choose the right OB-GYN? What foods can you eat? What if I go into labor earlier? Every new parent goes through this. Some parents tuck these thoughts away but there’s a better way to get rid of the anxiety. You get informed. You make the choice to educate yourself about what you don’t know. It takes time and effort but it’s worth it. And that’s what this book will help you do.

The idea behind natural childbirth has changed many times throughout the past centuries. Natural childbirth is a philosophy that operates from the belief that women who are educated and prepared are able to give birth without any medical interventions. This manual will explore each option, and will educate the pregnant woman as she moves through the pregnancy and prepares for labor. It is filled with techniques and tips to help you better understand the natural childbirth process.

Childbirth educator and doula Dayna Martin takes the truth about birth to new, provocative levels. Being responsible for your birth means shifting from a cultural place of control, to a place of trust and inner knowing that all is well and as it should be. It is a space of acceptance for what is; then from that disposition of well-being, informed decisions can be made. A place of fear or worry isn't the best place to be when making decisions; but unfortunately, in our culture, fear is what fuels most decisions.

Would you like to know how to recover emotionally and physically after giving birth? Unlike other books, this guide shares the easy-to-follow steps to help you restore body vitality and shape through foods and simple exercises.

Amity Reed became a midwife to serve women, but the reality of working in overstretched and underfunded NHS maternity services soon shattered her illusions. She’s not alone - for every 30 midwives that train, 29 will leave the profession. Overdue is both the devastating personal story behind the statistics, and a call for change in the NHS.

The most valuable investment any society makes is in its children, the next generation. The more we learn about the fetus the better we are able to understand the problems and abnormalities that can occur during development. Dr. Peter Nathanielsz, the first to demonstrate that the fetal brain delivers the signals that start the process of birth, reviews the recent explosion of information on fetal development during the second half of pregnancy.

Thousands of questions about pregnancy are running through your mind right now. Some of these questions may seem downright silly, but it’s nothing to be ashamed of - it’s normal that you want only the best for your little ones. In this book, there are no stupid questions. Although some questions might be amusing, each question is designed to bring peace of mind to the mommies who want to make sure they don’t do anything to harm their babies while pregnant. Elizabeth Newbourne is ready to answer 101 of your most pressing pregnancy questions.

Micah Burgess has attended over 200 home or hospital births as a doula. She also has had six of her own birth experiences - five homebirths using natural birth methods and one emergency C-section just 27 weeks into her sixth pregnancy. During many of those birth experiences, Micah encountered some hilarious situations and people. With her Texan charm and wit, Micah lets new and experienced moms everywhere see that the craziness that sometimes accompanies childbirth is neither odd nor unique - and is often quite funny.

In this antenatal course in a book, experienced hypnobirthing and antenatal practitioner Jackie Kietz discusses labour and birth in the way that it would be covered at face-to-face birth preparation classes. From how to tell whether you re really in labour, to choosing where and how to give birth and communicating your wishes to healthcare staff, the book is packed with essential information for new parents.

Anyone considering natural birth options should take a good look in to this package. Ashley's approach to HypnoBirthing is known as very practical and simple. When used with free AudioScript Meditation titled 'Fear Release' you receive with this purchase, women report fantastic results.

The Whitsun Daughters is a story of three contemporary teenage girls - sisters and cousins - in a small Midwestern town, narrated by the ghost of a young woman who, over a century earlier, lived and loved on the same small patch of farmland the girls now call home. The book follows both the present-day story of the three Whitsun girls and the story of Jane Murphy a century earlier as they fight to assert their own desires in worlds determined to ignore and minimize them.

In the hills of western North Carolina in the late 1970s, a secret was born that would spread its terror through the lives of many. For friends Anne, Joan, and Meg that secret would mean a life locked away in a haze, death, and questions that would go unanswered. As the women, all on the verge of giving birth, wonder what the future holds for their children, the machinations of others will prove more powerful than even a mother's love. In the present day, the secrets of the past can have consequences and Inga Parr is soon going to find that out.

Parents and parents-to-be are bombarded with information, from what to expect to what to do (and not to do) when it happens. But what they may not realize is that from the chemistry of pregnancy tests to the vacuum physics of breastfeeding, there is fascinating science at the heart of every aspect of creating and raising a new human.

Once you're pregnant, the rest is easy, right? No. Knowing parenting wouldn't be easy, Stephanie Thompson never thought too much about how the baby would actually arrive and how that was, in fact, the hardest part of the journey so far. Many women feel foolish for not knowing what they didn't know. They found out the hard way. The Day My Vagina Broke is about breaking the silence on the secret women's code around childbirth and empowering mums-to-be at their most vulnerable time.