Birth Pregnancy

Discover the power of knowledge throughout your pregnancy. Embrace it and take charge of your pregnancy journey, making the best decisions for you and your baby! From the moment you found out you were pregnant, you may have felt a mix of elation, fear, and uncertainty. With so many decisions to make and an overwhelming amount of advice from well-meaning family and friends, it can be hard to hear your own voice. Your needs, wishes, values, and intuition are more important now than ever.

Are You Terrified to Give Birth? If Yes, You May Have Tokophobia Bringing a child into the world is a huge responsibility and can be a daunting prospect, but for some women the anxiety around becoming a mum runs much deeper. Tokophobia, an extreme fear of pregnancy and childbirth, is debilitating and can influence the way women choose to give birth – or even put them off pregnancy altogether... Tokophobia is a pathological fear of pregnancy and can lead to avoidance of childbirth. It can be classified as primary or secondary. Primary is morbid fear of childbirth in a woman, who has no ...

The original Spiritual Midwifery, published in 1976, introduced an entire generation of young women to the possibility of home birth and breast feeding. It also breathed new life into the all-but-vanished field of midwifery. The current edition of this classic book on home birth is now an audiobook, with updated information on the safety of natural childbirth, new birthing stories, and the most recent statistics on births managed by The Farm Midwives.

In this comprehensive new book, doula and birth educator Bailey Gaddis offers frank girlfriend talk and expert advice about pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood. During her own pregnancy, Bailey had many unanswered questions she felt were too taboo or embarrassing to ask. To help other women have a more informed, less cringey experience, she went on to train as a birth professional, and her work has inspired this book.

This modern hypnobirthing book shows you how you can incorporate hypnobirthing techniques into every stage of your pregnancy, creating a safe space for you and your baby to return to time and again.

Soon-to-be dad, congratulations on adding another member to your family—albeit a smelly and very demanding addition. (You’ll soon discover this if it's your first time around the block.) However, that’s a topic for another book. For now, we must help you help your wife while your little one is growing in her tummy.

Empower yourself through every stage of pregnancy and connect to your baby through candle work, affirmations, astrology, meditations, color correspondences, inner child healing, and more.

Birth Story Pregnancy Guidebook + Journal is a one-of-a-kind discovery into your pregnancy that provides you education through storytelling. I’m excited to be your virtual doula on your journey to motherhood, along with Dr. John Thorp, a leading OBGYN with more than three decades of superb clinical research and academic service. Through our collaboration, Dr. John Thorp has ensured all material in Birth Story Pregnancy Guidebook + Journal is medically accurate and evidence-based.

When Bella signs up to work at the galaxy’s most exclusive alien pleasure palace, she’s not expecting to be transformed into the ultimate dairy hucow. But her new role comes with perks—plush accommodations, luxurious treatments, and aliens from every corner of the cosmos desperate to indulge in her creamy offerings. With her enhanced body and insatiable clients, Bella discovers that life as a milkmaid at the Pleasure Palace is far more decadent—and satisfying—than she ever imagined. PLEASURE PALACE MILKMAID is 15k words of delicious BDSM sci-fi erotica featuring consenting adults,...

In this one-of-a-kind guide, dad, doula, and certified lactation counselor Brian Salmon and perinatal mental health and relationship expert Kirsten Brunner offer practical, modern-day survival tips for expectant dads and birth partners. Based on Salmon’s Rocking Dads childbirth course, this book provides everything dads need to know about supporting their partner through labor, birth, breastfeeding, and beyond.

For almost twenty years Gerrad McCloud has renounced the extravagant and old-fashioned ways of his dragon-kind to live in the human realm. He’s found fame as an invincible and fireproof stuntman in the local film industry, but recently his efforts to quell his dragon desires have been difficult. He’s nearly a hundred years old, and as an alpha male that means one thing: It’s time to find his mate. Gerrad wants to resist the urge burning inside him – but when he’s assigned to coach the handsome Derek Van-Rindley, Hollywood’s hottest new action star, he realizes the task will be ...

Modern medicine should make pregnancy and childbirth safer for all. But in Birth Control, award-winning journalist Allison Yarrow reveals how women are controlled, traumatized, injured, and even killed because of the traditionalist practices of medical professionals and hospitals.

There's a wealth of information out there for expectant moms on pregnancy and birth, but so often the dad is left out of the conversation. Male midwife Mark Harris seeks to redress the balance with this new book, drawing on his decades of experience with couples as they make the transition to being new parents. Covering topics from massage to sex and pain relief during labor to breastfeeding, this is a lively, honest, and frank discussion of pregnancy and birth from a man's point of view.

Your first pregnancy is an exciting time in life! It can also be a bit terrifying. You have many questions and you don’t know what to expect. Questions like, how do you choose the right OB-GYN? What foods can you eat? What if I go into labor earlier? Every new parent goes through this. Some parents tuck these thoughts away but there’s a better way to get rid of the anxiety. You get informed. You make the choice to educate yourself about what you don’t know. It takes time and effort but it’s worth it. And that’s what this book will help you do.

Introducing "Postpartum: The Expectations and Reality of the Fourth Trimester" – your essential guide to the transformative journey of postpartum. Authored by Jessica Dawson, a relatable mom who's been through it all, this book fearlessly delves into the messy details of new motherhood, offering comfort, reassurance, tips, and a wealth of insights. Main Topics Covered: Physical recovery after birth Navigating hormonal and emotional fluctuations Bonding with your baby Setting schedules for baby and mom Sleep (or lack thereof) Managing social pressures Feeding options: breastfeeding, ...

Pregnancy, Birth, and Baby Care With Essential Oil shows you how to safely use essential oils for all types of issues that arise during pregnancy, labor, and postpartum. Unlike traditional pregnancy guidebooks that follow conventional, fear-based instruction, this book offers a healthy approach to pregnancy, childbirth, and baby care, embracing a natural and safe way to use essential oils. Full of advice and tips for a healthy pregnancy, Totilo’s researched-based remedies for common and troublesome symptoms guide you with the utmost care given to the health of you and your unborn child. ...

Why read a book about birth stories when it is so easy to watch them on the internet? Because in a book you can learn about the trials, triumphs, thoughts and motivations that the brave women are going through in their minds and emotions. Some of these stories will give you goose bumps, some will make you laugh, some will take your breath away, and some will have you cheering the mothers on. This is the second book in the series of three. In the first book, Birth Stories and Midwife Notes: In God We Trust, I describe how I became a midwife and Christian, and then include several birth ...

Your journey into parenthood has already begun. This book is a roadmap that tells you where you are, how long it takes to reach the finish line, and what happens in between. It helps to eliminate the anxieties that will inevitably accompany you into this brave new world.

Childbirth can be an empowering and positive experience that you treasure for the rest of your life. KG Hypnobirthing teaches simple and gentle techniques that have a profound effect on you and on your baby.KG Hypnobirthing can reduce the need for pain relief and shorten labor, and you are more likely to experience a natural, calm, comfortable birth. It actively involves the father or partner; you will both learn skills to instill confidence about the birth and your role as parents.

Psychic Medium Emily Greene has found her higher purpose by helping parents connect to the soul energies of their future children, their “spirit babies” – throughout the phases of their journey – from preconception, through pregnancy and birth. In her book, A Cosmic Bond: Communicating with your Spirit Babies from Preconception to Birth, Emily captures the wisdom she has gained in her decade of spiritual practice and shares powerful stories of parents and families who have been transformed by the connections they have made with the souls of their children-to-be. Emily guides you to ...