Having Twins and More: A Parent's Guide to Multiple Pregnancy, Birth, and Early Childhood

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Houghton 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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Elizabeth Noble is the author of seven books, including Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year, Childbirth with Insight, and Having Your Baby by Donor Insemination. She is the founder of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Section of the American Physical Therapy Association, and of the Maternal and Child Health Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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