Discusses the senses, behavior movements, and facial expressions of infants and examines the interactions between newborn babies and their parents

The Amazing Newborn: Discovering And Enjoying Your Baby's Natural Abilities

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Klaus, Phyllis H.

Klaus, Marshall H.

Psychology & Counseling

Da Capo Lifelong Books

The mighty bond between parent and child is one of the enduring wonders of psychology. John Kennell and Marshall and Phyllis Klaus bring decades of research, insight, and clinical practice into one book that offers parents, and those who care for them during pregnancy, everything they need to know to enhance this essential relationship. This important work explores the effects of various birth practices and situations—prenatal testing, labor support, testing of newborns, breast feeding, prematurity, and adoption—on the parents' feelings and on the development of later attachment and independence.

Bonding: Building The Foundations Of Secure Attachment And Independence

Kennell, John H.

Balance

A doula is an experienced labor companion who provides continuous emotional support and assistance before, during, and after birth. Through years of research, first reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, the authors have shown that the presence of a doula shortens first-time labor, decreases cesarean sections and the need for pain medication, helps fathers participate with confidence, and leads to more successful breast-feeding. In this clear, helpful guide, the distinguished authors show all expectant parents how to achieve these vital benefits. Both the text and Suzanne Arms's stunning photographs reveal what continuous emotional support actually means at each stage of childbirth. The book clarifies the relationship of a doula to the doctor, the nurse, and above all to fathers, who have found their role enormously strengthened by the support of the doula. Chapters on what to look for in a doula, and on how to find one, make Mothering the Mother a book no expectant parent should be without.

Mothering The Mother: How A Doula Can Help You Have A Shorter, Easier, Healthier Birth

Politics & Social Sciences

Kennell, John

Women's Studies

Da Capo Press

Addresses aspects of parent-child bonding during pregnancy, birth, and babyhood, while examining such areas as birth practices and settings, prenatal testing, labor support, newborn testing, breast feeding, prematurity, and adoption.

Your Amazing Newborn celebrates a baby's extraordinary abilities in the first hours and days of life. Marshall and Phyllis Klaus take parents and all those who care for new families into this freshly charted world, one they have been exploring for decades. The results of their fascinating research are illuminated by over 120 exquisite photographs, all of babies less than two weeks old. Your Amazing Newborn begins before birth with images of fetuses actually comforting themselves in the womb. We then see newborns less than one hour old crawling unassisted to the breast, recognizing the voices of their parents, and shutting our unwanted sights and sounds. Parents will learn how to discover an infant's clear preferences for certain shapes, smells, tastes, and tones of voice. They will be delighted by the ways babies seem to be able to ensure their own survival, and they will be amazed that within days after birth, newborns can engage in an intimate and reciprocal choreography, and nestle into a parent's embrace as though they had practiced for years. Your Amazing Newborn is a must for parents-to-be, grandparents, siblings, and caregivers; through its stunning photographs we see the first reach, the first mutual gaze—and most wonderful of all—the first spark of recognition that ignites a lifetime bond.

Your Amazing Newborn

Your Amazing Newborn celebrates a baby's extraordinary abilities in the first hours and days of life. Marshall and Phyllis Klaus take parents and all those who care for new families into this freshly charted world, one they have been exploring for decades. The results of their fascinating research are illuminated by over 120 exquisite photographs, all of babies less than two weeks old.Your Amazing Newborn begins before birth with images of fetuses actually comforting themselves in the womb. We then see newborns less than one hour old crawling unassisted to the breast, recognizing the voices of their parents, and shutting our unwanted sights and sounds. Parents will learn how to discover an infant's clear preferences for certain shapes, smells, tastes, and tones of voice. They will be delighted by the ways babies seem to be able to ensure their own survival, and they will be amazed that within days after birth, newborns can engage in an intimate and reciprocal choreography, and nestle into a parent's embrace as though they had practiced for years. Your Amazing Newborn is a must for parents-to-be, grandparents, siblings, and caregivers; through its stunning photographs we see the first reach, the first mutual gaze-and most wonderful of all-the first spark of recognition that ignites a lifetime bond.

Women's Health

More and more parents-to-be all over the world are choosing the comfort and reassuring support of birth with a trained labor companion called a "doula." This warm, authoritative, and irreplaceable guide completely updates the authors' earlier book, Mothering the Mother, and adds much new and important research. In addition to basic advice on finding and working with a doula, the authors show how a doula reduces the need for cesarean section, shortens the length of labor, decreases the pain medication required, and enhances bonding and breast feeding. The authors, world-renowned authorities on childbirth with combined experience of over 100 years working with laboring women, have made their book indispensable to every woman who wants the healthiest, safest, and most joyful possible birth experience.A Merloyd Lawrence Book

The Doula Book: How A Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have A Shorter, Easier, And Healthier Birth (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

For an entire generation of new parents, this warm, expert work has become the standard guide to the shortest, easiest, and healthiest childbirth. Now a thoroughly updated and revised edition offers new research showing how labor support reduces the rate of cesarean sections, length of labor, need for pain medicine, and number of episiotomies. New material also demonstrates the positive effects of having a doula on mother-infant bonding, how relatives or friends can be trained in labor support, and how hypnosis is used to ease and shorten labor. No expectant parent will want to be without this empowering and irreplaceable book.

The Doula Book: How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier, and Healthier Birth (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

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The Amazing Newborn: Discovering And Enjoying Your Baby's Natural Abilities

Bonding: Building The Foundations Of Secure Attachment And Independence

Mothering The Mother: How A Doula Can Help You Have A Shorter, Easier, Healthier Birth

Bonding: Building The Foundations Of Secure Attachment And Independence

Your Amazing Newborn

Your Amazing Newborn

The Doula Book: How A Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have A Shorter, Easier, And Healthier Birth (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

The Doula Book: How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier, and Healthier Birth (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)