Bonding Before Birth: Prenatal Nurturing for Your Baby

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Penguin, Apr 21, 2008 - Health & Fitness - 192 pages

Bonding Before Birth combines up-to-the-minute research with enlightened and compassionate wisdom. This book explores what science knows about babies in the womb and explains why mother-baby bonding is so vital for the future well-being of mother, father, and baby. Dr. Miriam Stoppard writes about the feelings that expectant parents experience during the first, second and third trimesters and promotes the significance of rites of passage through pregnancy, from adjusting to the changes that parenthood brings to celebrating your future as a family.

The emotional and psychological elements of pregnancy are often overlooked in favor of hard facts and scientific evidence. This book redresses the balance and turns its attention to the conflicting feelings of exhilaration and anxiety, dreams and fears that so often characterize the nine months of pregnancy and gives parents-to-be inspiring guidance through these uncharted waters.

 

Contents

Foreword 6
6
1 Benefits of bonding 8
8
2 Becoming parents 42
42
3 How I affect my unborn baby 78
78
4 Bonding through choices 110
110
5 Bonding through birthing 140
140
Baby names 178
178
My pregnancy birth 180
180
Scans photos 182
182
Useful addresses 184
184
Bibliography references 186
186
Index 189
189
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Doctor, businesswoman and writer, Miriam Stoppard spent seven years practising medicine and specialising in dermatology before she entered the pharmaceutical industry eventually holding the posts of Research Director and Managing Director for US multi-national. Later she developed a career in television which lead to her hosting her own medical shows on ITV for nearly 15 years as well as breakfast TV and many guest slots. To date Miriam has published more than eighty books on conception, pregnancy and birth, child care and development, and women's health. Accumulating to more than 25M books sales, in 35 countries, translated into 37 languages.

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