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The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
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Include books by the same authorWhat I Thought I Knew: A Memoir
Alice Eve Cohen · 194 pages
A personal and medical odyssey beyond anything most women would believe possibleAt age forty-four, Alice Eve Cohen was happy for the first time in years. After a difficult divorce, she was engaged to an inspiring man, joyfully raising her adopted daughter, and her career was blossoming. Alice tells her fiance that shes never been happier. And then the stomach pains begin. In her unflinchingly hone
Good Eggs
Phoebe Potts · 261 pages
In graphic novel format, the author recounts her struggle to have children and the emotional impact of the infertility process.
Misconception: One Couple's Journey from Embryo Mix-up to Miracle Baby
Paul Morell, Shannon Morell, Angela Elwell Hunt
The Baby Trail
Sinead Moriarty · 320 pages
Early thirtysomething Emma decides it's time to have the baby - but it just doesn't happen to order. Emma goes through a funny, touching and ultimately moving journey as she struggles to accept the reality that maybe it's never going to happen. The Baby Trail is a novel rich in texture, light and dark, and humour with a biting undercurrent.
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson · 160 pages
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of “autotheory” offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author’s relationship with artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes the author’s account of falling in love with Dodge, as well as her journe
Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood
Anne Enright · 208 pages
Ironische beschouwingen over zwangerschap en moederschap.
Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice
Willie Parker · 217 pages
An outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider--one of the few doctors to provide such services to women in Mississippi and Alabama--pulls from his personal and professional journeys as well as the scientific training he received as a doctor to reveal how he came to believe that helping women in need, without judgment, is precisely the Christian thing to do.
The Cider House Rules
John Irving · 573 pages
Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--obstetrician and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Clouds. It is also the story of his favorite orphan, Homer, who is never adopted.
My Little Red Book
Meg Cabot, Erica Jong, Gloria Steinem, Cecily von Ziegesar, Megan McCafferty, Tamora Pierce, Lola Gerhard, Henrietta Wittenberg, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Krista Madsen · 225 pages
My Little Red Book is an anthology of stories about first periods, collected from women of all ages from around the world. The accounts range from lighthearted (the editor got hers while waterskiing in a yellow bathing suit) to heart-stopping (a first period discovered just as one girl was about to be strip-searched by the Nazis). The contributors include well-known women writers (Meg Cabot, Erica
This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor
Susan Wicklund, Alan Kesselheim · 281 pages
A female physician describes her dedication to helping women through the abortion experience, the dangers she faced as an abortion provider, and her thoughts on the abortion debate.
The New Perimenopause: An Evidence-Based Guide to Surviving the Zone of Chaos and Feeling Like Yourself Again
Mary Claire Haver
**The #1 *New York Times* bestselling author of *The New Menopause* explains everything a woman needs to know to thrive during the often-misdiagnosed and medically ignored perimenopausal years** *I’m just not feeling like myself!* This is the battle cry of the perimenopausal woman. Though menstrual cycle changes and the emotional rollercoaster that accompanies them are the hallmarks of the t
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
Jonathan Eig · 408 pages
Immersed in radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes, this is the fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century.
How to Be a Woman
Caitlin Moran · 313 pages
Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the incessant talk about babies? And do men secretly hate them? Caitlin Moran interweaves provocative observations on women's lives with l
A Woman's Guide to Natural Hormones
Christine Conrad · 228 pages
More doctors are recommending natural (also called bio-identical) hormones-because they offer all the advantages of synthetic hormone replacement therapy (HRT) without the negative side effects or long-term health risks. Unlike synthetic HRT, natural hormones are bio-identical: they match a woman's own hormones exactly and don't interfere with the body's normal hormone production. They are safer a
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich · 444 pages
Presents the life of Martha Ballard, a midwife in Maine during the eighteenth century, by drawing on the detailed diary she kept for twenty-seven years of her life.
Heart and Hands: A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth
Elizabeth Davis · 287 pages
This manual for lay midwives includes chapters on prenatal care; problems in pregnancy, labor, and birth; and postpartum care.
Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born
Tina Cassidy · 312 pages
"Starting with a lively, personal introduction in which Tina Cassidy describes her grandmother's, her mother's, and her own experiences of giving birth, readers are taken on an astounding journey into the history of childbirth. From evolution to the epidural and beyond, Tina Cassidy presents an intelligent, enlightening, and impeccably researched cultural history of how and why we are born the way
A Midwife's Story
Sheryl Feldman, Penny Armstrong · 194 pages
Childbirth without Fear: The Principles and Practice of Natural Childbirth
Grantly Dick-Read · 352 pages
What to Expect When You're Expecting
Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi E. Murkoff, Sandee E. Hathaway · 616 pages
We're expecting again! Announcing the completely revised and updated third edition of America's best-selling pregnancy book, What to Expect When You're Expecting. Two years in the making, it's a cover-to-cover, chapter-by-chapter, line-by-line revision and update. Everything that the original did-which, at just shy of 10 million copies in print, it did extraordinarily well-the third edition does,
The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir
Patricia Harman · 290 pages
In Patricia Harman’s exam room, patients open their hearts. Harman, a nurse-midwife, manages a private practice with her husband, an ob-gyn, in Torrington, West Virginia—a practice now providing only gynecological exams and first trimester care because they’ve been forced by escalating malpractice insurance costs to give up delivering babies. Despite this, the women who sit before her receive nurt
Your Best Birth: Know All Your Options, Discover the Natural Choices, and Take Back the Birth Experience
Ricki Lake, Abby Epstein, Jacques Moritz · 238 pages
The national C-section rate is at an all-time high of 31 percent. Are all these C-sections necessary, or are some of them done simply for the sake of convenience? Inductions seem to be the norm, but are they always needed? Today, expectant mothers are often left feeling powerless, as their instincts are replaced by drugs and routine medical procedures. What you are about to discover is that you ha