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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Mommy's belly is growing. She's really showing! How big is baby now? Starting with three months, we can compare the little baby growing inside Mommy's belly to things that young children can relate to and see around them: from an egg to a football to a gallon of milk, children can count along and feel like they're a part of the magic that is happening inside that belly!"--
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A trimester-by-trimester guide to what to eat--as opposed to what to avoid--while pregnant and nursing, to support the mother's health and the baby's development during each stage of pregnancy, with 50 recipes. Pregnancy has traditionally been viewed as a time when women can give in to their food cravings and not worry about their weight. But new research suggests that the foods women eat during pregnancy can have a lasting effect on the baby's brain...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But her brother-in-law, a physicist, tells her that perhaps there is. Hunter appeared in their lives just a few years before--and his appearance was as mysterious as his past. With no family, no friends, and a background shrouded in secrets, Hunter embraced the Sears family and never looked...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Almuzara
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
El embarazo supone una auťntica revoluci̤n para el cuerpo de la mujer y conocer lo que ir̀ pasando a lo largo de los meses en ti y en tu beb̌ te dar̀ seguridad y tranquilidad en el embarazo y durante el parto, porque ir̀s preparada. La doctora Mar̕a de la Calle nos presenta una excelente gu̕a, fundamental para entender los cambios del embarazo semana a semana.
Pregnancy is a real revolution for the woman's body and knowing what will happen...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Embryologist Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz has spent two decades unraveling the mysteries of fetal development. By studying embryonic mouse cells, she witnessed the embryo's ability to rid itself of abnormal cells as it prepared for implantation in the womb. When Zernicka-Goetz became pregnant at 44, she received a call that took her by surprise: a sample test of the cells in her own placenta indicated that the fetus had trisomy-2, a disastrous extra...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"[This book] brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary...
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