The reassuring guide to a happy, healthy pregnancy This new edition offers soon-to-be moms and dads detailed, friendly information on preparing and planning for pregnancy. You'll find guidance on the basics, as well as special considerations like age, multiple births, complications, illness, labor and delivery, postpartum care, and everything in between.
Teenage Sex and Pregnancy: Modern Myths, Unsexy Realities
Teenage Sex and Pregnancy: Modern Myths, Unsexy Realities presents a unique view of its subject by analyzing the extensive myths and fears that surround discussion of teenage sex and pregnancy, including their relationship to popular culture, poverty, adult sexual behaviors, and anxieties toward the increasingly public roles of young women.
The only pocket manual derived from Williams Obstetrics, 23e, the field’s most trusted text – completely updated and now in full color. Williams Manual of Pregnancy Complications, 23e is a carry-anywhere, condensed guide to the Williams protocols for diagnosis and management of complications and illnesses during pregnancy. Reflecting the rigorously referenced, evidence-based approach of the parent text, the manual delivers essential information.
A novel, bringing together the life stories of ordinary people, including a student facing the dilemma of unmarried pregnancy and a country girl savouring the delights of the city.
Childhood and adolescence are perhaps the most critical period in any person’s life. The education one receives during this time, the environment one is raised in, and the way one is treated by family, friends, and society, go a long way toward determining how the rest of an individual’s life will turn out. This volume addresses various factors that affect youth, including family income, who cares for children, health and safety issues, educational matters, and teen sexuality and pregnancy. Also, crime, violence, and victimization are addressed, including gang violence, school violence, and crime prevention and punishment.
