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Endorsed by James Dobson, Bey LaHaye, and Ed Wheat. A book to provide Christian parents-to-be with comprehensive information on every aspect of becoming parents.

This is the essential, authoritative guide to understanding and coping with PMS, reducing discomfort, minimizing symptoms and feeling your best. Packed with resources, treatment information and clinical research, "The Everything Health Guide to PMS" helps women understand the symptoms, causes and risk factors, and provides manageable, actionable solutions to help women feel their best emotionally and physically. Including a comprehensive self-test, this friendly, yet complete guide offers author...

It often feels chaotic rather than dynamic being a woman. Every day is different. Am I a size 10 today, or a size 14? Do I feel energised or do I feel like crawling under the duvet and watching Eastenders? Even our interest in sex bobs about, seemingly from minute to minute. And we mentally cross off the days when our hormones are in flux - chalking our bad moods up to PMS and waiting impatiently for our bodies to return to 'normal'. But if we are not 'ourselves' for so much of our lives, then w...

The author's experience with a number of complication during her pregnancy led her to write this much-needed book, which explains in clear and reassuring terms such conditions as gestational diabetes, inter-uterine growth retardation, preterm labor and delivery, and many others, including what to expect when a caesarean becomes necessary.

This guide to women's health looks at all the possible reasons why virtually every woman suffers from painful periods at some point in her life, and suggests practical and natural self-help solutions. Diet, exercise and alternative therapies are all discussed, and the book helps women take the discomfort out of their monthly cycle. Stella Warner is the author of "Super Healthy Hair, Skin and Nails" and "The Yoga Back Book".

‘I wish this book had been written before I stopped having them. I might have enjoyed them more! It’s brilliant, informative and funny. Period.’ Jennifer Saunders ‘I want to hear what Emma Barnett says about everything, and this terrific and timely book proves to be no exception.’ Elizabeth Day ‘A brilliant, myth-busting, funny and poignant book.’ Helen Pankhurst...

Polycystic ovary syndrome is a hormonal disorder which can lead to irregular periods, reduced fertility, repeated miscarriage, unwanted facial hair and rapid weight gain. This book explains the symptoms and causes, and discusses the treatments available, both conventional and alternative.

Being a male midwife is an unusual career choice for an Ex-army officer. But Chris McAlpine has chosen it - and he is good at it. At first his new boss, Joy Taylor, is suspicious of Chris. But in time she recognises his dedication to the job and admires his organisational skills as well. In spite of herself, she finds that she is in love with the man.Chris feels the same way. But he knows he has to tell Joy - because of a wound while on active service, he can never father children. And Joy want...

Bonney's Gynaecological Surgery has been a firm favourite for gynaecological surgical practice since it was first published in 1911! In this new tenth edition, this classic of the medical literature has been extensively revised and expanded by three leading gynaecological oncologists. Specifically tailored for trainees in obstetrics and gynaecology, the text focuses on the most commonly performed procedures. This, the tenth edition carries a renewed emphasis on evidence-based decision making, a...

Three Minus One: Parents' Stories of Love and Loss is a collection of intimate, soul-baring stories and artwork by parents who have lost a child to stillbirth, miscarriage, or neonatal death, inspired by the film Return to Zero. The loss of a child is unlike any other, and the impact that it has on the mother, the father, their family, and their friends is devastating--a shockwave of pain and guilt that spreads through their entire community. But the majority of those affected, especially mother...

Offering understanding and encouragement to women who suffer from endometriosis and fibroids, this text outlines the treatment options, offers advice to readers about what they can do to help themselves at home and how to get the most from their medical care.

Diverse Observations is a groundbreaking book available for the first time in English. Written by a midwife committed to improving the care of women and newborns, it records the evolution of Bourgeois’s practice and beliefs, comments on changing attitudes related to reproductive health, and critiques the gendered elitism of the early modern medical hierarchy

Unique, amazing, comprehensive, and unparalled - yes, it's all that and much, much more. Extensively illustrated with more than 500 color and black-and-white images, An Atlas of Human Prenatal Developmental Mechanics is the definitive guide to modern embryology. The author describes and illustrates human prenatal development and staging with reference to anatomy and discusses the possibility of following prenatal development with clinical methods of prenatal diagnostics. Covering the development...

Textbook of Assisted Reproductive Technologies is a truly comprehensive manual for the whole team at the IVF clinic. Information is presented in a highly visual manner, allowing both methods and protocols to be consulted easily. The text provides clinical and scientific teams with the A to Zs of setting up an embryology laboratory, gives research f

Oestrogen receptors (ER) are emerging as important molecules involved in the variety of physiological and pathological activities. There are two classic oestrogen receptors: alpha and beta. Different cells and tissues have shown divergent responses to these two oestrogen receptors. While we are starting to understand the interaction between oestrogen receptors and its ligands contributes to the development of various diseases, the discovery of sub-isoforms of oestrogen receptor alpha and beta ha...

This book is designed, as the title “Pathways to healing” suggests, to allow you and your family ready access to all the information you require about your c- cer to allow you to understand the different directions your disease may take. It should allow you to realize the breadth of possible outcome from where you stand at the particular point in time when you buy the book, or as your disease progresses or not. This book has been written for you wherever you are in the disease, ranging from cure...

EMPOWER YOURSELF! It is estimated that between 10 and 20 percent of American women of childbearing age have endometriosis. About 5.5 million women in the U.S. and Canada are diagnosed with the disease each year. Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient, or are a friend or relative of someone suffering from Endometriosis, this book offers help. The only text available to provide both the doctor's and patient's views, 100 Questions & Answers About Endometriosis gives you authoritative, practical a...