Pregnancy, birth and baby care: advice, topics and issues Books
Rockridge Press Letters to My Child: A Baby Journal and Keepsake
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£21.84
Allen & Unwin Birth Skills: Proven pain-management techniques
Book SynopsisEven after reading countless pregnancy books I still didn't understand what my labour would be like. All I really knew was it would be painful and scary. Then my obstetrician suggested I take Juju Sundin's birth skills classes. Juju gave me the knowledge to understand my body during labour and taught me about the physiology of pain and how to use her techniques to deal with it. - Sarah MurdochIf you're like most women, you'll go into labour with little knowledge of exactly what your body is doing and why, and how you can actively manage the pain and stay in control while helping your body do what it's designed to.That's where Birth Skills comes in, a step-by-step guide packed with information plus easy-to-learn, proven pain management skills.In Birth Skills, obstetric physiotherapist Juju Sundin shares the techniques she has pioneered over her 30-year career, while Sarah Murdoch takes you on a personal journey of her own labour and birth, describing how she learned the skills in the class then applied them on the big day.Whether it's your first baby or lucky last, you will learn:* how your body works in labour and why* how to turn fear into positive action so you stay in control* how to use movement, breathing, vocalisation, visualisation, keywords and other handy techniques* what to wear, what to take, and what questions to ask* how your partner can help, and working as a team* other women's experiences using Juju's techniques. Birth is all about the bigger picture -- educating and empowering yourself, giving it a try, doing it your way, and a healthy mother and baby. - Juju Sundin
£28.45
Demeter Press Birth...: Journey to the Wild Depths of
Book Synopsistogether we climb the mountain because I climb this mountain for you together we wade through the river together we shelter in the trees gathered with my support crew or standing solo exuding the theatrics of the stage or in the quiet Zen of retreat I unravel myself open myself surrender myself to this bold and broad and astonishing experience that will release you my child into the world and will forge my will my heart my being into the wild depths of motherhood Held in the story of Persephone, we start where all women now begin their birth journey – with Zeus, in the structure of patriarchy. Then we move beyond, through the supportive hold of mother Demeter, then further into ourselves until we find the unique wonder of woman, through courage, strength and surrender, to the breath and calm and ecstasy she can hold. Written from the embodied experience of home birth mother and GP obstetrician, offering pregnant women and birth attendants insights into the hospital system, and the beauty that can be found in natural birthing.Trade ReviewVeronica Moule skilfully weaves her poetic magic with art, myth and medicine to guide birthing women and their caregivers on this wild journey. - Sarah Buckley, Physician , birth worker, mother and wise woman // This book is so much more than a collection of poems, it's a doctor talking and a mother talking, about her fight against the system she works within, fighting for women's rights for a physiological birth.Veronica's mythopoetic language and the ancient stories she draws from, highlight the patriarchal journey that birth has gone on, to a place of control rather than trust. She takes us on a journey from exultation and love, to loss and grief and everything in between. - Jane Hardwicke Collings, Midwife
£18.02
Demeter Press Obstetric Violence: Realities, and Resistance
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£28.50
Demeter Press Unexpected: A Postpartum Memoir
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£21.38
Cornerstone Mindful Hypnobirthing: Hypnosis and Mindfulness
Book SynopsisHypnotherapist and experienced doula Sophie Fletcher shares with you the secrets to having a safe, natural and positive birth. Using a powerful combination of mindfulness, hypnosis and relaxation techniques, Sophie will ensure you feel genuinely excited and completely prepared for birth.With stories from women who have successfully used the tools in this book, as well as exclusive hypnosis and relaxation tracks, discover how to:- use your mind and body together to stay focused and in control- draw on visualisation and breathing techniques to help birth progress- feel positive and empowered, before, during and after you give birthReassuring, practical and based entirely on what works, Mindful Hypnobirthing is your essential guide to giving birth the way you want to.
£28.22
Verso Books Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family
Book SynopsisThe surrogacy industry is worth an estimated 1 billion dollars a year, and many of its surrogates work in terrible conditions, while many gestate babies for no pay at all. Should it be illegal to pay someone to gestate a baby for you? Full Surrogacy Now brings a fresh and unique perspective to the debate. Rather than making surrogacy illegal or allowing it to continue as is, Sophie Lewis argues, we should be looking to radically transform it. Surrogates should be put front and centre, and their rights towards the babies they gestate should be expanded to acknowledge that they are more than mere vessels. In doing so, we can break down our assumptions that children necessarily belong to those whose genetics they share. This might sound like a radical proposal, she admits, but expanding our idea of who children belong to would be a good thing. Taking collective responsibility for children, rather than only caring for the ones we share DNA with, would radically transform notions of kinship. Adopting this expanded concept of surrogacy, helps us to see that it always, as the saying goes, takes a village to raise a child.Trade ReviewRooted in historical, site-based, narrative, and political accounts, Full Surrogacy Now is the seriously radical cry for full gestational justice that I long for. This kind of gestation depends on realizing the implications of knowing that we all actually, materially, make one another, and that this labor continues to be exploited, extracted, and alienated-unequally-at every turn in Capitalism and Patriarchy. Full of brilliant, generative, and also shamelessly biting critique of both bourgeois and communist tracts, feminist and otherwise, Lewis's voice is unique and bracing. I need it; it fills my whole self with reimagined possibilities for making oddkin who are not property. Lewis set out to write an immoderate, utopian, partisan, anti-authoritarian communist defense of surrogates and surrogacy in ramifying registers of meanings and practices, and she has succeeded. Lewis asks the necessary questions, "Can we parent politically, hopefully, nonreproductively- in a comradely way?" Can we become full surrogates for and with each other? In a book full of fierce demystifications and sharp dissections of injustice masquerading as humanitarianism, nonetheless Lewis convincingly and radically affirms: "Everywhere about me, I can see beautiful militants hell-bent on regeneration, not self-replication." -- Donna HarawayGiving birth is commonly called labor. What happens if all of human pregnancy and gestation is thought from the labor point of view? That's the challenge of Full Surrogacy Now. If it is all labor, then how can that labor be freed from now global regimes of colonial and commodity exploitation? Lewis takes one of the most everyday things about being human and thinks it through from the point of view of a cyborg communism. This book goes far into places where few gender abolitionists have ventured and brings us a vision of another life. -- McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker ManifestoFull Surrogacy Now is more than an intervention, it is a landmark text of visionary feminist thinking. Sophie Lewis tears down decades of essentialist and contradictory presumptions on labor, motherhood and ownership to offer us the possibility of new ways to live with and for each other. This book is as breathtaking as it is necessary. -- Natasha LennardFull Surrogacy Now arrived and I could not stop reading. The crises of our time are crises of reproduction. Radical that she is, Sophie Lewis gets right to the root of the matter--and, radical that she is, finds its roots to be intersecting and entangled, "lovely, replicative, baroque", as one of her own gestators, Donna Haraway, might put it. But the gestator? Lewis moves expertly through decades of debates, as well as a rapidly growing body of empirical research, on surrogacy to carry us beyond the by-now familiar refrain that this or that activity "is work." Her goal could hardly be more ambitious: to rethink the "natural" gestation that every one of us comes from. I will reread this book for the sense it gives me that new ways of making one another and the world new might, in fact, be possible. Its verve and wit make me feel sure that Lewis' reproductive commune will be fun. -- Moira Weigel, author of Labor of Love: The Invention of DatingAn instructive and moving book about the work of babymaking and the best possible future for birthing and raising children. It offers both a convincing polemic about surrogacy's past and present, and a vision of how to make it both more common and more mutually beneficial. Lewis treats surrogacy as a signal example of what will be integral to any common human flourishing to come: unmaking gender and the family as we know them, to build new kinds of sociality and care for what is not "biologically" "ours." I was floored by it. -- Sarah Brouillette, author of Literature and the Creative EconomySophie Lewis is at the top of a new generation of scholars and activists thinking the transformation of gestational labor within contemporary pharmacopornographic capitalism. Neither simply natural nor banally cultural, gestation appears as the unthought core of gender and sexual politics, and the key of a forthcoming womb revolution: trans-Marx meets mammal's politics! -- Paul B. Preciado, author of Testo JunkiePregnancy. Babies. Families. Nature itself. Like capitalism, communism knows no bounds. Relentless in the task of seizing of the means of reproduction, Sophie Lewis is the Right's worst nightmare. * George Ciccariello-Maher, author of Building the Commune *Sophie Lewis and her expansive vision of feminism are desperately needed right now. She makes the work of undoing what "womanhood" has come to mean look possible and irresistible. -- Melissa Gira Grant, author of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex WorkFull Surrogacy Now makes a significant contribution to the pressing political project of advocating for the rights of those workers whose labour is so often delegitimised, exploited and criminalised... join[ing] such texts as Juno Mac and Molly Smith's Revolting Prostitutesin combating the white, liberal, trans-exclusionary, whorephobic, 'feminist' discourse which is currently dominating conversations around sex work and gestational labour. * Vector *Lewis is attempting to do for pregnancy what the Wages for Housework movement did in reconceptualizing the unpaid labor done by women in the home as work. And recognizing surrogacy as work and surrogates as workers is a necessary first step, for if surrogacy is work, then isn't, by extension, every pregnancy? -- Esther Wang * Jezebel *The radical openness of these dreams is alluring ... [Full Surrogacy Now]leaves one with the beautiful, liquid possibility of a world that recognizes "our inextricably surrogated contamination with and by everybody else". * Times Literary Supplement *A thrilling new intervention ... by placing reproductive labour at the centre of her vision in Full Surrogacy Now, Lewis confronts a central issue that continues to be sidelined in the male-dominated field of futurism. * New Humanist *Theoretical, devious, a mix of manifesto and memoir. -- Jessica Weisberg * The New Yorker *Incisive and exciting...a must-read for those interested in queer feminist engagements with family, reproductive labour and global class relations. * LSE Review of Books *For a business that deals in common ingredients and a mature technology, surrogacy is curiously expensive... Nevertheless, the price tag remains high, as do the hoops to jump through, adding to already compelling human drama. Full Surrogacy Now is a prosurrogacy tract that finds plenty to fault in the current situation. -- Lela Edlund * Population and Development Review, Vol 46, No 3 *
£18.26
Chronicle Books It All Goes by So Fast (Except Maybe This Part):
Book SynopsisFrom the author of the bestselling Sh!t No One Tells You series, this journal invites you to capture the weird and wonderful moments from pregnancy through your baby's first year. Offering quick and easy fill-ins ("grossest thing the baby licked today") and space for parenting musings ("your thoughts on your evolving definition of a fun night"), this journal will be a memorable keepsake that you will treasure forever (well, maybe not right now, but . . . eventually). Included are handy and silly milestone stickers you can place on your baby or yourself and snap a photo to celebrate the charming and not-so-charming moments of early parenthood. Milestone stickers like: - Everything is FINE. Totally fine. Totally. - No, I'm still not sleeping through the night. - Today I pooped in my own ear.
£16.52
Quarto Publishing PLC Our Brave Hearts
£12.34
Council Oak Books The Mother's Companion: A Comforting Guide to the
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£16.16
The Experiment LLC My Pregnancy Journal with Sophie la girafe®,
Book SynopsisThis charming journal, featuring the one and only Sophie la girafe®, is ready to be filled with your thoughts, feelings, and “firsts” during this unforgettable time. Inside, you’ll find: abundant space for photographs, a pocket to hold your predictions about Baby, a page for brainstorming baby names, special places for your ultrasounds, the birth announcement, and other mementos, handy tabs to easily find and flip through sections, helpful checklists and advice for a good night’s sleep, doctor’s visits, and more! Capture every important moment of your great adventure - from your first daydreams of becoming a mother to the day you finally bring Baby home!
£18.99
Experiment, LLC My Baby Album with Sophie La Girafer Third
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£22.46
FROM YOU TO ME Explica'm Mare: El Teu Embaras I el Meu Primer
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£32.46
Platypus Media LLc Breastfeeding Facts for Fathers-
Book SynopsisThe new, revised Breastfeeding Facts for Fathers is a 38-page booklet, packed with information, humor, tips for fathers who want to know more about breastfeeding.
£9.15
Platypus Media Breastfeeding Facts for Fathers
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£5.75
Hawksflight Publishing LLC Babywise Sleep Solutions
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£26.69
£8.49
Hohm Press,U.S. Joyful Toddlers and Preschoolers: Create a Life
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£21.60
Addicus Books Overcoming Postpartum Depression and Anxiety
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£18.39
KPT Publishing You Can't Buy Love ... But You Can Rescue It:
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£9.45
KPT Publishing Meditations for Mom: Simple Reflections on Faith,
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£13.46
KPT Publishing Baby and Me: A Guided Journal for the Mother of a
Book SynopsisBaby and Me is a delightful journal for mothers to capture memories with ease to turn every-day moments into a keepsake. Beautifully designed pages feature inspirational quotes, with prompts for journal entries for the mother of a newborn through five years old. With place holders for photographs it truly turns her notes into a loving memory book to be enjoyed now and in the years to come. Thoughtful and compelling, it captures the essence of the outpouring love and hope that comes with a new baby.
£12.30
KPT Publishing New Baby, New Love: Inspiration for the Mother of
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£13.46
Bull Publishing Company Working with Worry: A Workbook for Parents on How
Book SynopsisWorking with Worry is a hands-on workbook that you can turn to for easy-to-understand information, recommendations, and support. Parents will learn about what anxiety looks like in children, reflect on their own experiences with anxiety, and find a wealth of intervention activities to try with their children. The activities use proven techniques including mindfulness, creativity, and self-regulation, and are organized by type of intervention, age, and areas of interest.Trade Review"Wow! What a quick and easy hands-on guide to navigating the oftentimes daunting struggles of anxiety in children [...] This is a comprehensive user-friendly resource for parents, teachers, and mental health clinicians." Dana R. Lipsky, Psy.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist" Working with Worry is a great resource for anyone who lives with, teaches or does individual psychotherapy with an anxious child [...] a must-read for parents, teachers and therapists." Brenda Fawcett Ph.D. Psychologist"This couldn't have come at a better time with anxiety running high for our primary-school-age daughter." Netgalley Review"A very thorough informational book about anxiety that focuses on children and how parents can help their child cope with anxiety." Librarian, Netgalley"A helpful resource for the many children (and parents) who struggle during these anxious times." Julia M. Reffner, Library Journal
£15.29
Bull Publishing Company Baby Me
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£15.26
Bull Publishing Company Mi Bebé Y Yo
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£16.82
Duo Press LLC The Belly Sticker Book
Book SynopsisYou can’t log on to Facebook or Instagram without seeing photos of babies wearing adorable belly stickers to celebrate significant milestones (like “One month old!” and “My first word!”) and sets are popping up in stores everywhere. Now comes the very first book of belly stickers – a great way to capture and share all of your baby’s firsts, from important holidays and milestones to month-by-month anniversaries and just-for-fun moments. Simply peel off the sticker that celebrates your baby’s milestone and stick it to your baby’s chest. Then snap an adorable photo and post online for everyone to ooh and aah over. Includes 48 belly stickers. Use the hashtags #bellystickers and #bellystickerbook for extra sharing!
£16.60
The Unapologetic Voice House LLC Body Belly Soul: The Black Mother's Guide to a
Book SynopsisThis 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, like clogged ducts and isolation due to generational disconnects. This book explores common scenarios that Black Mothers are finding themselves in every 40 weeks and so much more you wish your mom, auntie, or sister shared with you. This book is a guide for any Black mother refusing to give away her power in birthing spaces. The Black Mother who knows without a doubt her choices matter, her mindset matters, and who she surrounds herself with matters. This is for the Black mother ready to take accountability for her birth experience through thoughtful preparation despite the status quo. Birth does not happen to us. WE Birth babies! Includes: Checklists for each part of the preparation - Body, Belly and Soul A list of nourishing and replenishing food for you and your baby - Prenatal and Postnatal Holistic ways to train your body for D- Day Interventions explained - The reason and the consequences Affirmations and empowerment from our ancestors How to hold providers accountable Discovery of non-medical comfort measures Ways to ramp up Milk production
£13.95
Compendium Publishing & Communications Expecting You
£20.57
Rutgers University Press Undoing Motherhood: Collaborative Reproduction
Book SynopsisIn 1978 the world’s first “test-tube baby” was born from in vitro fertilization (IVF), effectively ushering in a paradigm shift for infertility treatment that relied on partially disembodied human reproduction. Beyond IVF, the ability to extract, fertilize, and store reproductive cells outside of the human body has created new opportunities for family building, but also prompted new conflicts about rights to and control over reproductive cells. In collaborative forms of reproduction that build on IVF technologies, such as egg and embryo donation and gestational surrogacy, multiple women may variously contribute to conception, gestation/birth, and the legal and social responsibilities for rearing a child, creating intentionally fragmented maternities. Undoing Motherhood examines the implications of such fragmented maternities in the post-IVF reproductive era for generating maternity uncertainty—an increasing cultural ambiguity about what does and should constitute maternity. Undoing Motherhood explores this uncertainty in the social worlds of reproductive medicine and law. Trade Review“Undoing Motherhood is fascinating and unique; there is really no other published work that empirically examines the issues, debates, and contestations about maternity from the meso-level/organizational level that shape definitions about maternity and ensuing contestations when assisted reproductive technologies are involved.” — Susan Markens, author of Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of Motherhood “Undoing Motherhood beautifully weaves together the worlds of reproductive medicine and the law to explore how technology has complicated the meaning of motherhood. The book is a compelling story of how new reproductive technologies have profoundly affected our conceptions of parenthood.” — Naomi R. Cahn, author of The New Kinship: Constructing Donor-Conceived FamiliesTable of Contents1. A New Maternity Uncertainty? 2. Conceiving Motherhood and the Repronormative Family 3. Losing My Genetics: Paternal versus Maternal Concerns 4. Contingent Maternities? Maternal Claims Making in Collaborative Reproduction 5. Designating Maternity: Contested Motherhood and the Courts 6. Adopting or Resisting New Maternities? 7. Concluding Thoughts: Maternity Somewhere in Between Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£24.99
Dr Ludwig Reichert Musikalische Begleitung Fur Fruhgeborene Und Ihre
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£28.50
Oceano Es Hora de IR Al Baño: Guía Para El Temido
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£18.86
Editorial Terracota Crianza sin gurús: Guía y acompañamiento para
Book SynopsisCon una intención amorosa, Elisa Gaona ofrece en Crianza sin gurús información amplia y estrategias con sustento actualizado que ha experimentado de primera mano como madre y pediatra. La autora busca que cada padre se cuestione y encuentre sus propias respuestas porque no hay un camino único a seguir, ni un traje que nos quede a todos. Las recetas de cocina y soluciones rápidas no existen. Elisa afirma que somos aprendices, no gurús, pero teniendo información veraz y actualizada para decidir, todo es más fácil.
£18.86
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Mamá Slow / Slow Mama
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£31.43
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Tú eres la mejor madre del mundo / You're the
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£17.34
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El libro de la lactancia / The Breastfeeding Book
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£31.23
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Montessorizate: Criar siguiendo los principios
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£15.24
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El método sueco para una crianza serena e igualitaria: Embarazo y primeros años: lo que dice la ciencia / The Swedish Method for Serene, Egalitarian Parenting
£25.41
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Bebés sin cólicos: El método pionero para
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£23.55
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial La magia de crecer juntos. Los años de la escuela infantil: la edad de la imaginación/ The Magic of Growing Up Together 3
£27.77
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Baby-led weaning: 0% dramas, 100% soluciones /
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£21.17
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Dulces sueños para niños despiertos / Sweet
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£13.74
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Guía para un embarazo consciente / Guide to a
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£26.84
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Cocinando en familia con Montessori / Cooking as
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£23.59
Obelisco Al Encuentro de la Maternidad
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£15.57
Obelisco El libro de la doula
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£26.54
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Ser mamá: el antes y el después / Motherhood: The Before and After
£16.63
Robinbook Los 100 Primeros Días del Bebé: Diario Íntimo de
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£15.16
