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The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers: The Most Comprehensive Problem-Solving Guide to Breastfeeding from the Foremost Expert in North America

by Jack Md Newman, Teresa Pitman

An Amazing Resource for Nursing Moms. Although breastfeeding is the natural and healthy way to nourish your baby, it’s not always easy. Many new mothers are scared away from nursing because of difficulty getting started and lack of information about what to do when things don’t go as planned. In this fully revised and updated edition of The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers, two of today’s foremost lactation experts help new mothers overcome their fears, doubts, and practical concerns about one of the most special ways a mother can bond with her baby. In this comprehensive guide, Dr. Jack Newman, a leading authority on infant care, and Teresa Pitman, a La Leche League leader for more than twenty years, give you the facts about breastfeeding and provide solutions for the common problems that arise.


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The Uterine Health Companion: A Holistic Guide to Lifelong Wellness

by Eve Agee, PhD, Celestial Arts Publishing, February 23, 2010.

The uterus is a remarkable organ-it is our first home, it contributes to women's sexual pleasure, it houses some of the strongest muscles in the body, and it even helps to prevent heart disease and high blood pressure. However, the uterus seldom receives our attention except when it becomes problematic or when we focus on getting pregnant or giving birth. And while health-promoting strategies for organs like the heart and lungs have become common knowledge, preventative measures for lifelong uterine health have been largely absent from Western medicine. Consequently, U.S. women have the highest rate of hysterectomy in the world.

In The Uterine Health Companion, Eve Agee demonstrates why the uterus matters and how we can take care of it, from menarche to menopause-and beyond. She presents mind-body practices to create lasting health so that issues such as PMS, fibroids, and endometriosis do not have to be our destiny as women. A comprehensive holistic plan including nutrition, exercise, cognitive restructuring, and visualization shows us how to promote uterine wellness and enhance conventional medical therapies. Chapters dedicated to specific uterine issues illustrate how to support our health through simple daily practices and fundamental attitude shifts in our relationship to our bodies. The book also includes strategies for women who have had hysterectomies. This empowering resource offers a prescriptive, balanced approach to developing and maintaining optimal uterine health, for every woman at any stage of life.


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Tricks of the Trade Two Book Combo, Volume One, Volume Two

First Book: Wisdom of the Midwives, Tricks II, Birth Wisdom, Tricks III, Sharing Midwifery Knowledge, Tricks IV Second Book: Wisdom of the Midwives, Tricks II, Birth Wisdom, Tricks III, Sharing Midwifery Knowledge, Tricks IV


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Tricks of the Trade, Volume Four, Sharing Midwifery Knowledge

Our popular Tricks of the Trade series continues! Like the first three books, Sharing Midwifery Knowledge is an essential resource for every birth professional. Open this book to discover a helpful blend of long articles and short tricks that will help you help babies and mothers at the births you attend. Sharing Midwifery Knowledge includes articles and tricks taken from past issues of Midwifery Today magazine and Midwifery Today E-News, as well as tricks from our conference circles. These are tried-and-true gems, learned through experience; real-world methods that can expand your personal bag of tricks, enhance your education and encourage a natural approach to safe childbearing. Paper, 94 pages


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Tricks of the Trade, Volume Three Birth Wisdom

The third book in our Tricks series continues the tradition of presenting the best advice from previous issues of Midwifery Today magazine. Order this book and you'll be able to learn tricks and tips from practicing midwives, childbirth educators, naturopaths, doulas and parents. Each page will excite your imagination, enhance your education, and encourage a natural approach to safe childbearing. Topics include: *Philosophy of care *Remedies *Pregnancy *Birth *Postpartum *Newborn care & breastfeeding


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Understanding and Teaching: Optimal Foetal Positioning

By J. Sutton and P. Scott, (Tauranga, New Zealand: Bay Print Ltd., 1996.)

Pauline Scott coined the term 'Optimal Foetal Positioning' after learning about Jean Sutton's pioneering approach concerning ways to help align an unborn baby into the maternal pelvis before labor begins. In this new, revised edition, practical ideas to encourage OFP during labour have been included. "In the area of pregnancy and childbirth, every so often an idea emerges that has the potential to make a significant impact on the way that women labour and give birth. I believe 'Optimal Foetal Positioning' is very exciting and offers huge benefits to women who are receptive to and put the concept into practise. It should be compulsory reading for all childbirth educators, midwives and doctors." Sharron Cole, Childbirth Educator & National President of Parents Centre New Zealand.


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Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century

by Barbara Carrellas, Celestial Arts Publishers, March 5, 2007.

If you think sexual and spiritual bliss can'­t be found in today'­s fast-paced world, you haven'­t experienced Urban Tantra. With a juicy mix of erotic how-to and pleasure-centered spiritual wisdom, acclaimed sex educator Barbara Carrellas radically updates the ancient practice of Tantra for modern sexual explorers desiring to push past their edge in search of the great cosmic orgasm.With more than one hundred easy-to-follow techniques for expanded orgasmic states and solo and partner play (as well as more adventurous practices), this in-depth guide reveals the delicious worlds of ecstasy available to all, including:The Erotic Awakening Massage • Breath and Energy Orgasms • Twenty-Minute Tantra Evolutionary Selfloving • Sex and Healing • Tantric BDSMNo matter what your gender, sexual preference, or erotic tastes, URBAN TANTRA will expand your notions about pleasure and open you up to new heights of intimacy and sexual fulfillment.


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Vagina: A New Biography

by Naomi Wolf, Harper Collins Publishers, September 11, 2012

An astonishing work of cutting-edge science and cultural history that radically reframes how we understand the vagina—and consequently, how we understand women—from one of our most respected cultural critics and thinkers, Naomi Wolf, author of the modern classic The Beauty Myth.

Exhilarating and groundbreaking, Vagina: A New Biography combines rigorous science, explained for lay readers, with cultural history and deeply personal considerations of the role of female desire in female identity, creativity, and confidence, from interviewees of all walks of life. Heralded by Publishers Weekly as one of the best science books of the year, it is a provocative and deeply engaging book that elucidates the ties between a woman's experience of her vagina and her sense of self; her impulses, dreams, and courage; and her role in love and in society in completely new and revelatory ways sure to provoke impassioned conversation.


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When Survivors Give Birth, Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women

By Penny Simkin and Phyllis Klaus, CSW, April 2004.

The only book of its kind, When Survivors Give Birth provides survivors and their maternity caregivers with extensive information on the prevalence and short- and long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse, emphasizing its possible impact on childbearing women. Challenges in the client-caregiver relationship are thoroughly portrayed, with much practical advice for improving trust and communication as well as self-help techniques to handle abuse-related distress. Chapters on birth counseling, psychotherapy, and clinical care of survivors make this book a useful resource for survivors and all who work with them.


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Why Dads Leave: Insights & Resources for When Partners Become Parents

by Meryn G. Callander, Akasha Publications, July 28, 2011.

When John W. Travis, MD, lauded as one of the founding fathers of the wellness movement, became a parent, he was shocked to discover how unprepared he was for coping with the emotional challenges of parenthood.
Here his wife and colleague, Meryn Callander, shares the story of their confident plunge into parenthood and the subsequent unraveling of that confidence, as they discovered themselves floundering, exhausted and struggling to deal with the challenges confronting them.

Why Dads Leave reveals the cultural and generational forces that are colluding to create an unac- knowledged epidemic of disappearing dads—fathers leaving their families, physically or emotionally, soon after the birth of a child. Nearly twenty years in the making, this book provides insights and practical ways of preventing and healing the insidious and devastating impact of this dynamic.

Beautifully written, compassionate, and unflinchingly honest, Why Dads Leave offers understanding and hope for men‹and the women who love them.


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