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Breastfeeding a Newborn? Here’s How to Get More Sleep

Breastfeeding a Newborn? Here’s How to Get More Sleep

Perhaps one of the bigger challenges of having a new baby is getting sleep. There’s no end of advice on how to do this, much of it conflicting. No worries. The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine’s latest guideline comes to the rescue! Intended for maternity care professionals, “Physiological Infant...

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How Much Does Labor Hurt?

How Much Does Labor Hurt?

You ask: How much is it going to hurt? I don't want an epidural, but I'm afraid of how painful labor might be. What can you compare the pain with? I answer: I can’t tell you how much labor will hurt because the experience of pain varies from person to person and even from labor to labor for the...

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Take Charge of Your Birth

Labor Pain What's Your Best Strategy Henci Goer

The first in Henci’s new Take Charge of Your Birth Series, Labor Pain: What’s Your Best Strategy? delivers up-to-date access to the best medical research plus practical strategies for developing your plan and putting it into action. Also available in audiobook.

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The Thinking Woman's Guide To Optimal Maternity Care

This groundbreaking ebook provides pregnant people and their partners benchmarks for choosing a birth place and guidance on how to select care providers who support an evidence-based, physiologic approach. It identifies the gaps between typical labor management and optimal care and gives sage advice on how to find care they can trust.