Making Babies: The Science of Pregnancy
Product Description: Drawing on past speculation and present knowledge, reproductive biologist David Bainbridge conducts us through the forty weeks of a human pregnancy, from conception to breastfeeding, explaining the complex biology behind human gestation in a clear and unassuming manner. Making Babies sets the latest findings in pregnancy biology in a challenging evolutionary, historical, and [...]
Guarantee the Sex of Your Baby: Choose a Girl or Boy
ISBN13: 9781569755709 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionFor many people, having a large family isn’t a reasonable option. Fortunately, medical science has ushered in a new era of family balancing where couples can determine their baby’s gender. The Revolutionary Science of Sex Selection guides prospective parents step-by-step through the [...]
How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby
ISBN13: 9780767926102 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionFor almost forty years, How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby has been the standard reference for couples trying to increase their chances of having the son or daughter they hope for. In this new edition of their classic book, Dr. [...]
Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-Sex and Unwed Parents’ RIghts
Product DescriptionHeart-wrenching, high-profile court cases such as the Baby M case have called attention to the troubling consequences of new reproductive technology; the law has yet to catch up with the ways that people create families today. Although these times may appear chaotic and confusing, Mary Shanley shows us that we don’t have to be [...]
Making Babies: Biomedical Technologies, Reproductive Ethics, and Public Policy
Product DescriptionThe present work tries to show that problematic evaluations of new technologies such as IVF may be as dangerous as no evaluation at all. Because technology assessments may give people a false sense of security, poor ones may serve as a legitimization of premature, dangerous, or misunderstood decisions. Careful analysis of technology assessments may [...]
Pregnancy Relaxation and Meditation: 12-20 Weeks of Pregnancy (Making Babies CD)
Product DescriptionHello, my name is Joanne. I am a midwife and a hypnotherapist, during my work as a midwife caring for women and their families in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period. I became aware of the demands that pregnancy makes upon a woman not only on her physical well being, but also on her [...]
Making Babies: Personal View of IVF
Product DescriptionAccompanying a six-part BBC1 television series, this is an examination of the human, ethical and emotional issues arising from in-vitro fertilization. Whilst the programmes closely follow the hopes and experiences of eight couples following IVF treatment, the book presents the background to the problems faced by women who had IVF during the filming. Some [...]
MAKING BABIES
Product DescriptionMaking Babies is a thorough and comprehensive compilation of up-to-date scientific research, blended with a wealth of informative, practical knowledge, and is packed full of relevant self-help information that has something to suit everyone. This book has been combined to offer you a ‘warts and all’ overview of both the medical approach to reproductive [...]
Making Babies: A Guide to Fertility and Conception
Product DescriptionMaking a baby is the most important thing a couple can do, but some find it extremely difficult. Making Babies provides clear medical information about the reproductive system and fertility, with separate sections for women, men and couples. Medical terms such as ART and IVF, hormones, impotence, miscarriage, ovulation, endometriosis, sexually transmitted diseases and [...]
Making Babies: Infants in Canadian Fiction
Product Description Although the infant has been a consistent figure in literature (and, for many people, a significant figure in personal life), there’s been little attention focused on infants, or on their place in Canadian fiction, until now. In this book, Sandra Sabatini examines Canadian fiction to trace the ideological charge behind the represented infant. [...]
