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Taking good care of yourself in the first three months of your new baby’s life—the fourth trimester—brings crucial benefits for you, for your baby, and for your partner and family. With this important book, you now have the resources to have an ideal fourth trimester experience. Cynthia Gabriel, a doula and the author of the best-selling book Natural Hospital Birth, delivers all the information, guidance, and encouragement you need as a new mother to take care of your body, mind, and spirit during the vital months of the fourth trimester.

In Baby Making for Everybody, queer millennial midwives Ray Rachlin and Marea Goodman use their professional expertise to demystify the dizzying process of pursuing parenthood as queer and solo people, offering detailed, gender-affirming, body-positive advice. The result is a much-needed compassionate step-by-step guide for every aspect of the complicated, messy, and glorious process of building a family.

Journalist Rebecca Grant provides us with a never-before-seen look at the changing landscape of pregnancy and childbirth in America—and the rise of midwifery—told through the eyes of three women who all pass through the doors of the same birth center in Portland, Oregon. In remarkable detail and with great compassion, Grant recounts the ups downs, fears, joys, and everyday moments of each woman’s pregnancy and postpartum journey, offering a rare look into their inner lives, perspectives, and choices in real time.

Gut vorbereitet dein Baby zur Welt bringen. Das Standardwerk der Familienexpertin. Vom Kaiserschnitt bis zur Hausgeburt zeigt Nora Imlau das gesamte Spektrum des Gebärens. Einfühlsam geht sie dabei auf die Emotionen der Mutter ein und hilft mit großer Fachkenntnis, das einzigartige Erlebnis vorzubereiten, zu verstehen und auch schwierige Geburtserlebnisse zu verarbeiten. Wertfrei und achtsam zeigt sie, wie der Balanceakt gelingen kann, sich gut auf die Geburt vorzubereiten und gleichzeitig innerlich offen dafür zu bleiben, dass auch alles ganz anders kommen kann als geplant.

Este volumen reúne los ensayos, La enfermedad y sus metáforas y El sida y sus metáforas, que siguen ejerciendo una influencia enorme en la reflexión médica y en las vidas de miles de pacientes y cuidadores.

Syndrome prémenstruel : informer, reconnaître et déculpabiliser « QU'EST-CE QUI NE VA PAS CHEZ MOI ? », « EST-CE QUE JE DEVIENS FOLLE ? » Vous êtes-vous déjà posé ces questions quelques jours avant vos règles ? Si oui, la réponse est SPM, ou syndrome prémenstruel, cet ensemble de symptômes physiques (douleurs aux seins ou au ventre, migraines, acné, fringales, nausées, etc.) ou psychologiques (nervosité, anxiété, agressivité, émotivité, voire dépression).

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Pregnancy Miracle and learn about pregnancy and infertility!

Women and Kink presents a diverse range of personal and intimate stories about life, love, relationships, kink, sex, self-discovery, growth, resilience, community, and more. The book offers insight into the breadth of the kink community, with chapters discussing different aspects of kink and forms of engagement, both individually and within relationships. Filled throughout with personal vignettes and examples, the authors provide commentary, reflection questions, and thought-provoking considerations to listeners who are looking to explore a new area of their life.

Waiting in Hope gives women an uplifting, accessible resource to comfort, guide, and strengthen them through the journey of infertility. Featuring 31 reflections that address specific aspects of waiting and hoping, each chapter weaves personal narrative, Scripture, and prayers to encourage women longing for a child. As seasoned infertility ministry leaders, Jenn Hesse and Kelley Ramsey have committed to help women turn to Jesus as their hope in sorrow.

This is the book I wish I had for me to use before I gave birth. Since it didn’t exist, I thought I’d write it for you! Follow me as I prepare my body through food to build the best baby I could while pregnant. How I battled morning sickness, and what in the world to do with those cravings.

When discussing period pain or mood swings, hormonal imbalance or fertility issues, and all the “down there” concerns, vagina owners everywhere consistently ask their doctors one thing: Is this normal? Whether it was from her patients or her hundreds of thousands of social media followers, Dr. Jolene Brighten has heard this simple question more times than she can count. With only eighteen states (yes, really) requiring medically accurate sexual education, it’s no wonder that so many have serious questions that need answers.

Sex Therapy: Sessions with Chantelle Otten is an empowering, authentic and intimate podcast that takes you under the covers and into the world of sex therapy. During these anonymous, recorded therapy sessions, we meet real people with real questions, issues and desires.

Die Diagnose ist zunächst ein Schock: Wird bei einer Patientin PCO, das polyzystische Ovarialsyndrom, festgestellt, so kommen oft zahlreiche beängstigende Gedanken auf. Kann man das behandeln? Was ist mit dem Kinderwunsch? Und vielleicht am wichtigsten: Kann ich selbst überhaupt etwas tun? Hier gibt es zum Glück eine gute Nachricht: Es gibt so einiges, was Sie tun können, und wie genau Sie die Sache selbst in die Hand nehmen, das erfahren Sie in diesem Buch.

Four decades after And the Band Played On created an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, mathematician Rebecca Culshaw is sounding the alarm that everything that iconic book told us about AIDS is demonstrably wrong. And that mistaken understanding of AIDS and its cause has the potential to affect all of us, not just certain so-called risk groups. Rebecca Culshaw describes her slow uncovering of these reasons over her years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interaction with the immune system.

Superheroes don’t have babies; real and imperfect non-superhumans do. When we come to terms with this, the result is a happier and less traumatizing start to motherhood. Becky Vieira, the mom behind the popular Instagram account @WittyOtter, provides actionable advice for new parents on what to expect after pregnancy and how to successfully navigate the frustrations and challenges that come with having a baby.

Bei der aller ersten Sekunde des eigenen Kindes dabei sein – das ist heute für die überwiegende Mehrheit der Väter eine Selbstverständlichkeit. Trotz des Vaterglücks kommen schnell ungeklärte Fragen auf, die Sorgen bereiten!

On April 23, 1984, in a packed press conference room in Washington, DC, the secretary of health and human services declared “The probable cause of AIDS has been found.” By the next day, “probable” had fallen away, and the novel retrovirus later named HIV became forever lodged in global consciousness as “the AIDS virus.” Celia Farber, then an intrepid young reporter for SPIN magazine, was the only journalist to question the official narrative and dig into the science of AIDS.

De la mano de Naran Xadul y las integrantes de esta tribu podrás detenerte a reflexionar sobre tu propia maternidad al tiempo que escribes en este journal los momentos más importantes de tu embarazo y de la primera etapa de vida de tu bebé.

Ihre Partnerin hat bekannt gegeben, dass sie schwanger ist! Herzlichen Glückwunsch, werdender Vater! Willkommen in der Vaterschaft. Was nun? Sind Sie voller Freude und Zuversicht, dass Sie die Schwangerschaft, die Geburt und die Aufgaben als Vater bewältigen können?

Whispering in the Dark is a daring exploration of the intersection between schizophrenia and sexuality. In this captivating book, author Travis Breeding delves into the erotic delusions of schizophrenic patients, examining how their hallucinations and delusions manifest themselves in their sexual desires.