Pregnancy & Childbirth
91 Articles & Excerpts
Parents with Mental Illness : Pregnancy, Victimization and Trauma
by SAMHSA
Pregnancy brings a unique set of challenges to adults living with mental illness. The percent of unplanned pregnancies among women with serious mental illness is high. Mothers with schizophrenia have higher rates of spontaneous miscarriages, stillbirths
EXERCISES: Healing Childhood Dreams
 The Mother-to-Be's Dream Book : Understanding the Dreams of Pregnancy
by Raïna M. Paris
The following exercises are meant to assist the mother-to-be in becoming more aware of what childhood feelings or old relationships are coming to the surface through her dreams. They are based on the first trimester and show the woman how to integrate
Pregnancy
 The Gallagher Guide to the Baby Years, 2005 Edition
by Stephanie Gallagher
Oh, the aches and pains of it all! We may love the idea of growing a human being, but pregnancy also means morning sickness, weight gain, stretch marks, leg cramps, and an inability to go more than twenty minutes without peeing
An Introduction to Your Dreams
 Dreaming for Two: The Hidden Emotional Life of Expectant Mothers
by Sindy Greenberg, Elyse Kroll, Hillary Grill, M.S.W.
The first book to comprehensively explore the emotional life of expectant mothers. The brainchild of three women-a journalist, an editor, and a psychotherapist-Dreaming for Two explores the dreams of expectant mothers and what they reveal about
The Mother and Her Child
by William S. Sadler, M.D., Lena K. Sadler, M.D.
There can be no grander, more noble, or higher calling for a healthy, sound-minded woman than to become the mother of children. She may be the cola borer of the business man, the overworked housewife of the tiller of the soil
X-rays and Pregnancy: The Risks to a Fetus
by Health Canada
Diagnostic x-rays are sometimes needed during pregnancy to provide a doctor with important information about a woman's medical condition. However, x-rays may involve risks to an unborn child. X-rays are electromagnetic radiation, just like visible light.
Daddy's Little Girl and Preventing Teen Pregnancy
by Jeremy G. Schneider, MFT
The research on the importance of fathers grows every day; the role we play in helping our children develop social skills, better test grades, and future career success. But I want to take a moment to talk about the special impact fathers have
Afterword to the Anchor Edition
 Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood
by Naomi Wolf
The book you have read is the frankest possible account I could write about the struggles-as well as the joys-of adjusting to pregnancy and new motherhood. Misconceptions ends with the birth of my first baby, and an epilogue describes the birth of
Disturbances of the Heart
by Oliver T. Osborne, M.D.
It is so serious a thing for a woman with valvular lesion or other cardiac defect to become pregnant that no young woman with heart disease should be allowed to marry. Perhaps every normal heart during pregnancy hypertrophies somewhat to do the extra work
Pregnancy and Birthing
 Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing
by Christiane Northrup, M.D.
As a mother and a women's doctor, I have experienced childbirth from both sides of the bed. Every mother has moments that she cherishes from the birth experience and insights and feelings she'd like to share with other women.
Pregnancy and Drug
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Experts say that while they have certainly learned some useful information for successful drug treatment in pregnancy, their knowledge is limited for the most part. Unless research focuses on a pregnancy-related condition such as labor induction, drugs
How Many Children Do You Want?
 The Contraception Guidebook: Options, Risks, and Answers for Christian Couples
by William R. Cutrer, M.D., Sandra Glahn, Th.M.
For more than twenty years, when engaged couples have come to me for premarital counsel - either in my capacity as a physician or as a pastor - I have asked them to sit back to back so they can't see each other's response and then have asked them to raise
Accutane Risk Management
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
FDA has announced changes that strengthen a risk management program regarding pregnancy and a drug used to treat severe acne. Accutane (isotretinoin) is a drug approved to treat the most serious form of acne - a type that is painful
Parent and Child, Volume III
by Mosiah Hall
In common with every organism the infant develops from a single germ cell of almost microscopic size. Wrapped in this tiny cell are all the possibilities of structure and character that combine to form the complicated bodily organism and the particular
Holistic Medicine
 The Whole Pregnancy Handbook
by Joel M. Evans, M.D.
Holistic medicine; alternative, complementary, and integrative medicine these terms are sometimes used interchangeably, but they're not exactly interchangeable.
Papers on Health
by John Kirk
Simple remedies such as we advocate are found of immense service in mitigating both the pains of child-birth and the troubles coming before and after it.
Maintaining Health
by R. L. Alsaker
It is commonly believed that a pregnant woman must eat for two. The wise woman will not increase her food intake. If she is not up to par physically at the time of conception she will generally find it advantageous to decrease the food allowance.
Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
by CDC
Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) results from maternal alcohol use during pregnancy and carries lifelong consequences. Early recognition of FAS can result in better outcomes for persons who receive a diagnosis.
The Prospective Mother: A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy
by J. Morris Slemons
This book, written for women who have no special knowledge of medicine, aims to answer the questions which occur to them in the course of pregnancy. Directions for safeguarding their health have been given in detail, and emphasis has been placed upon
A Guide to Integrating Conventional and Alternative Pregnancy Medicine
The Whole Pregnancy Handbook
by Joel M. Evans, M.D.
Pregnancy is a magical and mysterious time of life. As it progresses and you move toward parenthood, you're aware of all the profound ways life is about to change it will be filled with joy and responsibility, challenges and love.
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