Having Twins and More: A Parent's Guide to Multiple Pregnancy, Birth, and Early ChildhoodHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003 - 560 pàgines Now in a third edition, the best-selling guide on multiple births, Having Twins And More, covers everything from conception through childhood. With ongoing advances in assisted reproduction, increasing numbers of women are having twins, triplets, and more, and they're having them later in life. Having Twins And More is the original source parents consult for guidance through the multiple birth experience. For three decades Elizabeth Noble, a respected name in the field, has provided expectant parents with everything they need to make informed, safe choices and give birth to healthy babies. This comprehensive handbook emphasizes optimal health as well as physical and emotional adjustments to bearing and raising multiples, and it offers striking new insights into risks, complications, and treatments--candid information that is gathered only in this book. |
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vii | 51 |
Parents Feelings | 63 |
Bonding with Multiples | 87 |
Twinship Experiences in Utero | 101 |
Potential Hazards of Multiple Pregnancy | 109 |
How to Give Your Babies the Best Chance | 163 |
Prenatal Care and Screening Tests | 195 |
How to Prepare for a Multiple Birth | 213 |
The Care of Multiples Born Too Soon Premies | 405 |
Multiples with Special Needs | 429 |
Parents Perspectives | 435 |
Survivors of a Twin Pregnancy | 453 |
Assisted Reproductive Technology ART | 469 |
Biography Becomes Biology | 477 |
Summary of Essential Exercises | 483 |
Plans for Parents and Hospital Personnel | 489 |
Labor and Birth of Multiples | 233 |
Caesarean Delivery of Multiples | 269 |
The Feeding of Multiple Infants | 281 |
Caring for Two or More | 303 |
As Multiples Grow | 323 |
The Older Siblings | 357 |
Some Special Features of Twinship | 363 |
Treatments to Prolong Pregnancy To Prevent | 383 |
Glossary | 495 |
Resources | 503 |
323 | 523 |
Bibliography and Further Reading | 529 |
Triplets Quads and More | 538 |
Photo Credits | 546 |
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Counseling the Nursing Mother: A Lactation Consultant's Guide Judith Lauwers,Anna Swisher Previsualització limitada - 2005 |