Summary: Explores the process of childbirth in America and the options open to expectant mothers, from hospital deliveries to private deliveries at home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BUSSummary: The Thing: In the winter of 1982, a 12-man research team, at a remote Antarctic research station, discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing alien wreaks havoc, creates terror and takes on the appearance of those it kills.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR JOHGordon, Olivia
Summary: What happens when pregnancy and the first few weeks of a baby's life don't go as planned? How have advances in modern medicine and perinatal genetics redefined our perceptions of what is possible?The First Breath by Olivia Gordon is a powerful medical memoir about the extraordinary fetal and neonatal medicine bringing today's babies into the world. Unveiling the intense patient-doctor...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bluebird 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.2 GORHowland, Genevieve
Summary: "With more than 1.3 million video views each month and over fifty-two million total views on her YouTube channel, Howland's (a.k.a. Mama Natural) funny but informational videos have empowered millions of women to embrace natural pregnancy and parenting. Now Howland is turning to the page, offering up the first week-to-week natural pregnancy book for soon-to-be moms. For the last half-century,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 618.2 HOWEpstein, Randi Hutter.
Summary: Making and having babies--what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver--has mystified women and men for the whole of human history. Over the last one hundred years, depending on the latest prevailing advice, women have taken morphine, practiced Lamaze, relied on ultrasound images, sampled fertility drugs, and shopped at sperm banks. Here, the insatiably curious Randi Hutter Epstein...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.2009 EPSSummary: This program will help new mothers understand what to expect during the postpartum period and how to avoid complications.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Children have unique needs and desires. This video shows how child-care facilities can effectively provide a stimulating learning environment if available space is used to its full potential. The program discusses the value of providing an environment that is both attractive and practical.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Hayes, Karen E. N.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Howell Book House 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.1 HAYTapley, Donald F.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1988
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: From packing for the hospital to readying for emergencies, the entry into parenthood-whether for first-timers or veterans-requires careful preparation. This program features a family focused on the impending arrival of its newest member and all the concerns that typically accompany a baby's birth. Expecting their fourth child, Blainagh and Gerard live a good 90 minutes from the nearest...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Through interviews with midwives from 23 countries, this program explores the influence of culture, law, and religion on pregnancy and childbirth. Childbirth practices vary around the world: Will the birth occur at home, or in a hospital? With or without painkillers, and in what position? Who will be in the labor room? A Chilean midwife incarcerated by the Pinochet regime describes the powerful...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Difficulty in conceiving a child is becoming an increasingly common problem for many couples. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, infertility affects more than 6 million men and women in the United States. As this program shows, infertility can be frustrating, mysterious, and difficult to cope with-however, advances in assisted reproductive technology are also...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Due to ignorance, politics, and misused technologies, childbirth until very recently was often deadly to mother and child. This program presents a medical history of childbirth from ancient times to the present, contrasting methods and beliefs of the past with today's obstetrics. Along with commentary from obstetricians, medical historians, and evolutionary biologists, the program highlights...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Allmen, Tara
Summary: "An authoritative guide to understanding and navigating the hormonal changes and health issues women experience in midlife and beyond, from one of the leading medical experts in the field. The physical changes that occur after women turn forty are unavoidable--and can be unnerving. Menopause affects every aspect of life--from sex and sleep to mood and mental clarity to weight and body...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618 ALLParker, Lara
Summary: "With unflinching honesty, Lara Parker, the Deputy Director for BuzzFeed, shares her day-to-day challenges of living, working, and loving with chronic pain caused by endometriosis in this raw, darkly humorous, and hopeful memoir. I wasn't ready to be completely honest about my vagina yet, and the world wasn't ready for that either. But I was getting there. I wanted the world to know that all of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.1 PARSummary: Designed especially for parents in need of a general at-home refresher course on natural childbirth, this video demonstrates prenatal exercises such as the Kegel and the Tailor Sit and Stretch, relaxation and breathing techniques for use before and during labor, and coaching tips for the birthing partner. Getting Ready for the Baby also includes two follow-along segments: a ten-minute recap of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: When a baby is hospitalized with a life-or-death illness, parents place their trust in the doctors, nurses, and other specialists of the neonatal intensive care unit. This program blends the intimate and the informative to examine both the technological and the human aspects of infant critical care. Case studies featuring footage of the birth of the Faul twins, one of whom was diagnosed in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: There's no more daunting or more beautiful event in a family's life than the arrival of a newborn. This program accompanies two families as they strive for order and peace of mind while adjusting to new members. Eight-week-old Umma endures severe colic as well as difficult breastfeeding issues-not to mention mom's postpartum depression. The parents of newborn Ciaran (delivered by caesarean...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Research shows that our development in the womb can have a profound influence on our later lives. This video examines the nine months beginning with conception and ending with the birth of a healthy baby-the period of time called prenatal development. In addition this video contains information on the major physical milestones during pregnancy, emphasizing the importance of the expectant...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Davies, Sasha
Summary: "It's one of the most important, least discussed events that happens in every body born with ovaries. It's a physiological and psychosocial event, a cultural construct, and a deeply personal experience all woven together in a jumbled knot. It's menopause. But why is there so much mystery surrounding the topic? Why is it so different for everyone? And more importantly, what do you need to feel...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.1 DAVDolan, Deirdre.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.2 DOLSummary: Dissection specialist Gunther von Hagens utilizes two cadavers in this program-an arrangement necessary for teaching human sexual anatomy. Von Hagens outlines the basics of male-female intercourse before detailing the physiology of human genitalia and the functions of important glands. Analyzing the penis, scrotum, testes, and vas deferens, he explains the process of sperm production and how,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Birth: an entrance into life, the beginning of discovery, and a forging of essential bonds. This program weaves footage of many women's experiences of childbirth with valuable commentary from obstetricians, midwives, psychologists, counselors, and recent mothers and fathers. Key topics covered are sonograms and prenatal examinations, changing attitudes to the role of pain in childbirth,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program explores the most common types of birth defects, covering the major classifications: malformations present at birth, inborn errors of metabolism, blood disorders, and prenatal damage. The video also includes information on the prevention of birth defects, with an emphasis placed on the importance of good prenatal care.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005