Essential information to help you make informed decisions for a healthy pregnancy, labor, and birth. In this new guide, the International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA) presents the best available evidence-based research on pregnancy, childbirth, and newborn care. Its goal is to help expectant parents understand their options in maternity care, and to guide them as they make informed decisions that are best for them and their families. Written in plain English and organized for easy reference, this is a great resource for any childbirth class. Essential information to help you make informed decisions for a healthy pregnancy, labor, and birth. In this new guide, the International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA) presents the best available evidence-based research on pregnancy, childbirth, and newborn care. Its goal is to help expectant parents understand their options in maternity care, and to guide them as they make informed decisions that are best for them and their families. Written in plain English and organized for easy reference, this is a great resource for any childbirth class.

This guide provides a full range of updated, evidence-based norms and standards that will enable health care providers to give high quality care during pregnancy, delivery and in the postpartum period, considering the needs of the mother and her newborn baby. All recommendations are for skilled attendants working at the primary level of health care, either at the facility or in the community. They apply to all women attending antenatal care, in delivery, postpartum or post abortion care, or who come for emergency care, and to all newborns at birth and during the first week of life (or later) for routine and emergency care. This guide is a guide for clinical decision-making. It facilitates the collection; analysis, classification and use of relevant information by suggesting key questions, essential observations and/or examinations, and recommending appropriate research-based interventions. It promotes the early detection of complications and the initiation of early and appropriate treatment, including time referral, if necessary. Correct use of this guide should help reduce high maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity rates prevalent in many parts of the developing world, thereby making pregnancy and childbirth safer.

This is a shorter version of the classic bestseller The Birth Partner, ideal for time-pressed parents, partners, and birthing professionals. It is a convenient and easy-to-use book that provides facts on the fly during the ultra-busy period before, during, and after labor and birth. An added planner keeps your plans and to-dos in one place. Generations of spouses and partners, as well as doulas, nurses, midwives, and other professionals, have relied on Penny Simkin's warm and wise guidance in caring for the new mother, from the last trimester through the early postpartum period. Her book The Birth Partner is the definitive guide to helping a woman through labor and birth, and The Birth Partner's Quick Reference Guide and Planner is a more-concise version of that book. For those who have the original book, it adds a planner component, for hospital or at-home birth plans and for other essential to-dos. It is full of reliable and up-to-date information on: Preparing for labor and for the new baby Ways to help a woman through each stage of labor and birth Pain-relief measures, including epidurals and medications as well as natural techniques Ways to induce or speed up labor Cesarean birth and complications that may require it Breastfeeding and newborn care and much more For the partner who wishes to be truly helpful in the birthing room, this is the essential book to have on hand.

It is a fact that Baby Care begins right from the day or before a woman conceives. We all know that a mother plays the most significant role in a child's life. So, in order to bring a new life on this earth, a woman must be physically and mentally ready to go through the pleasures and pain of the nine-month long pregnancy and the precautions and care that she should take throughout this period to give birth to a healthy and happy baby.Baby Care & Child Health Problems presents complete and exhaustive information about the various facets of Pregnancy, how a baby grows inside the mother's womb and finally comes out of the mother's body as a newborn with a bundle of joy for everyone in the family. It also deals in detail how an expectant mother should get ready by making a list and collecting all the essential items required for her and her baby before his/her arrival in the family.The book is different from other Baby Care books as it explains in a unique and stepwise manner the various phases of a mother's life with the newborn, i.e., the first few weeks when a baby routine has to be planned, then the first three to six months, the food habits and ways of feeding, the sleeping patterns and duration, baby diapers, types of baby diapers and their correct usage, bathing the baby, keeping him/her in a clean and hygienic surrounding, etc. It also deals elaborately how to clean the baby's hair, skin, nose, ears, trim his/her nails, the application of oil or cream on the baby's body by a light massage, etc., in a detailed and systematic manner.Well, that's not all. The book also provides valuable information regarding Premature Baby Care, i.e., care of the child which is born before the due period of nine months, his/her feeding habits, growth chart, health problems and various other needs with special tips from specialists and pediatricians. How to deal with the common health problems, such as flu, teething fever, common cold, nappy rash, loose motions or constipation, vomiting and asthma. The vaccinations that are required for chicken pox, jaundice, measles, meningitis, etc., have also been explained thoroughly in this book. Hence, it will certainly serve as a complete guide and handbook for all those expecting mothers and the ones who have newly stepped into motherhood.

Covering everything a woman needs to know before, during, and after a pregnancy, this revised edition also guides parents from the baby's newborn stage through age three. 800+ color photos and illustrations.

Provides a year's worth of advice for new parents, covering twenty-three areas, from diapering and bathing to beginning discipline and returning to work. Also includes a list of further resources, including books, Web sites, and organizations.