Home » All Products   Beyond the Blues: A Guide to Understanding and Treating Prenatal and PPD by Shoshana Bennett and Pec Indman Details  Beyond the Blues: A Guide to Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression is an excellent source of information on perinatal depression in a straightforward and concise format. It is well reasearched and indexed for quick and easy reference by healthcare providers as well as clients and families. Beyond the Blues contains the most up-to-date information about risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mood disorders in pregnancy and postpartum. Straightforward yet compassionate, it is required reading for all who work with pregnant and postpartum women, as well as for those suffering before or after the baby is born. 2003 Price: $14.95 Birth as a Healing Experience : The Emotional Journey of Pregnancy Through Postpartum by Lois Freedman Details  This book emphasizes and examines the emotional aspects of pregnancy and postpartum, presenting these periods as important opportunities for a woman's growth and healing from previous traumatic births or pregnancy losses. Women's stories illustrate how individuals deal with past experiences of grief and loss during pregnancy in a therapeutic setting. Through Birth as a Healing Experience, you will discover a new model of childbirth preparation that empowers women and their partners for a fulfilling childbirth experience. You will also find that this essential book contains important information on supporting women during the postpartum period too. Price: $19.95 Birth as an American Rite of Passage by Robbie Davis-Floyd Details  Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth--routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy? Anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd first addressed these questions in the 1992 and in her 2003 edition she makes it clear that the issues surrounding childbirth remain as controversial as ever. 2003 Price: $21.95   Birth Ball Plugs   If you have lost the plug your birthball ,just order them here. Price: $2.50 Birth Balls: The Use of Physical Therapy Balls in Maternity Care by Paulina Perez Details  Polly Perez, has provided the reader with an excellent resource, not only for use in Birthing Units, but also for the pregnant woman and her coach, who have no idea how to use the birthing ball. This book should also be in the library of every pregnant woman and maternity nurse. Ms Perez covers it all from prenatal uses for the birthing ball to uses in the laboring process. This is an excellent resource with pictures to demonstrate the use along with great text. This book is a must have for those considering the implementation birthing balls in their unit. Pregnant woman will be want to read this valuable book during pregnancy and learn how to use the ball to ease pregnancy aches and pains and then use the ball during labor and birth. 2000 BULK PRICES available by calling us at 802/635-2142. Price: $6.95 Birth Balls: The Use of Physical Therapy Balls in Maternity Care- Paulina Perez Details  Save time preparing presentations by using these Power Point slides. This CD Rom contains the following: history of the ball, what are they?, why do they help?, safety tips, care and cleaning, sizing guide, anti-burst strength, types (round, egg, peanut), fitness tips for each trimester, the ball and EFM, use in labor and delivery, use with fetus in posterior position, postpartum use and resources. 58 slides Price: $50.00 Birth Into Being: The Russian Waterbirth Experience Details  In this video Russian Midwife Tatyana Sargunas and her filmmaker husband, Alexei, take the viewer on a breathtaking expedition to the Black Sea to witness five totally natural waterbirths. Viewers will be challenged to look at birth in a new light. Includes a beautiful soundtrack by Paul Winter. 24 minutes Price: $39.95 Birthball (53 cm) Details  Appropriate for women under 5' 2" in height - This Gymanstik birth ball is made of a new specially-formulated burst-resistant material and is being used in hospitals, birth centers & homes throughout North America. Its use during labor and birth facilitates physiologic positions for birth; is extremely helpful in labor complicated by a baby in the persist posterior position; allows the mother to have the freedom to shift her weight for comfort while maintaining an upright posture or a hands-and-knees position. Price: $25.95 « Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10... | Next »

What's new this month...

BRAND NEW 2nd Edition of NEW 2nd edition of Doula Programs: How to Start and Run a Private or Hospital-Based Program with Success!  is now available.  This new edition of Doula Programs is a must-read for all birth and postpartum doulas! This new updated, revised, re-edited 2nd edition covers every aspect from A to Z on starting and running a birth or postpartum program.  In this 2nd edition, Perez has added a new exciting chapter titled Established Programs Around the World. The information in this chapter is the only listing of its kind in print and was written so that novice and/or experienced doulas can prevent having to re-invent the wheel all the time.  Polly's passion for guiding doulas through developing a top-notch doula program radiates throughout the book. $32.95

HOT OFF THE PRESS! The long awaited 2010 revised edition of the Womanly Art of Breastfeeding is here! Their classic bestselling guide has been retooled, refocused, all-new photos & illustrations, and updated for today's mothers and lifestyles.  This ultimate breastfeeding support bible offers many new features. $20.00

WONDERFUL 2010 RESOURCE You have been waiting for this revised edition of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn completely updated, expanded, and redesigned, 2010 edition.  It is more readable, more visually appealing, more accessible and, of course, the medical information and advice has been completely updated.  $16.00

MUST HAVE - Labor Support Cards- A Birth Ball Guide is a set of 20 5”X4” color pictures of women in pregnancy, labor birth and postpartum using the birth ball. The laminated cards are on a ring . This set of cards is full of useful information that all perinatal caregivers need that to have close at hand about the use of physical therapy balls in maternity care.  $23.95

NEW - Childbirth Class Teaching Points Power Point Presentation CD ROM These slides, illustrated with pictures, contains teaching points to add new dimensions to childbirth classes, nursing and midwifery continuing education sessions, and doula classes. 260 slides.  $250.00

NEW RELEASE - Belly Dance of Birth DVD by Maha Al Musa has easy-to-follow instructions of how to use Belly Dance techniques to enhance both the pregnancy and birth process. - $45.00

REMARKABLE BOOKLET - The Belly Mapping Booklet includes valuable information on fetal positioning with easy-to-follow tips to give the baby a chance at the best position to make labor easier and shorter. - $14.95

Some of our other new products/books are......

DOULA TRAINERS  - Five Births Assisted by a Doula  - in DVD Format.  This video for doula trainers only and is not suitable for childbirth classes.  The births shown include an unmedicated first birth, the  birth of twins (the first of whom is breech), a water birth, an unmedicated birth of a 10 lb. 3 oz. baby, and a cesarean birth.  $40.00

LIMITED TIME SALE - abcdEFM TEXTbook: Electronic Fetal Monitoring by Carol Curran & Keiko Torgersen.  This NEW EFM text includes the nationwide standard of care NICHD terminology and guidelines. Was $78.95 Now $63.20!!!

BEST SELLER - abcdEFM Pocket Guides by Curran & Torgersen.  NEW 2008 NICHD Updates. These color laminated pocket guides are an adjunct to the abcdEFM book by Curran & Torgersen.  The fourteen 3 2/3 X 5/12 in. laminated cards cover NICHD definitions, periodic & episodic changes, deceleration, A-B-C's & 1-2-3's of EFM interpretation, EFM findings reassuring & nonreassuring, interventions options, Code Blue FHR, Acid Base Interpretation options, and Acid Base Interpretation & types of acidemia & acidodsis. $19.95

INFORMATIVE - Baby-Led Breastfeeding: The Mother-Baby Dance DVD by Christina Smillie, MD - $39.95

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