Book Description
The author draws on her own family's experience in an exploration of the special--and often precarious--circumstances of preterm babies and their families
Author : Elizabeth Mehren
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 19,97 MB
Release : 1998-07-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781575663159
The author draws on her own family's experience in an exploration of the special--and often precarious--circumstances of preterm babies and their families
Author : Thomas French
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,73 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 031632440X
A micro-preemie fights for survival in this extraordinary and gorgeously told memoir by her parents, both award-winning journalists. Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks' gestation. She weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces, and her twiggy body was the length of a Barbie doll. Her head was smaller than a tennis ball, her skin was nearly translucent, and through her chest you could see her flickering heart. Babies like Juniper, born at the edge of viability, trigger the question: Which is the greater act of love -- to save her, or to let her go? Kelley and Thomas French chose to fight for Juniper's life, and this is their incredible tale. In one exquisite memoir, the authors explore the border between what is possible and what is right. They marvel at the science that conceived and sustained their daughter and the love that made the difference. They probe the bond between a mother and a baby, between a husband and a wife. They trace the journey of their family from its fragile beginning to the miraculous survival of their now thriving daughter.
Author : Milton Isra Levine
Publisher :
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Human reproduction
ISBN :
An explanation for children of 6-10 of how babies are born and grow up approved by members of the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish clergy, and tested by a group of children.
Author : Robie H. Harris
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0763636304
A latest entry in the series that includes It's NOT the Stork! follows the adventures of young Gus and Nellie, who watch their mother's pregnancy and anticipate the arrival of a new sibling while learning engaging facts about how unborn babies develop.
Author : Anastasia Suen
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Board books
ISBN : 9781880000687
This exquisite board book is a lift-the-flap celebration of baby's first year for readers of all ages. Illustrated throughout with full colour illustrations that accompany the verse, it's a sturdy, colourful book that follows new babies through each season and step of development.
Author : Chelsea Davies
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 2020-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781925592368
Author : Danika Cooley
Publisher : CF4Kids
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,24 MB
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781781916780
The wonders of life from conception to birth Captures the wonder of our creation with great accuracy Understandable to young readers with beautiful illustrations
Author : Linda Walvoord Girard
Publisher : Albert Whitman and Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Childbirth
ISBN : 9780807594568
Describes the life of a tiny baby in his safe, warm, floating place during the nine months before he is born.
Author : Perri Klass
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0393610004
The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring, and the way we live. Only one hundred years ago, in even the world’s wealthiest nations, children died in great numbers—of diarrhea, diphtheria, and measles, of scarlet fever and tuberculosis. Throughout history, culture has been shaped by these deaths; diaries and letters recorded them, and writers such as Louisa May Alcott, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Eugene O’Neill wrote about and mourned them. Not even the powerful and the wealthy could escape: of Abraham and Mary Lincoln’s four children, only one survived to adulthood, and the first billionaire in history, John D. Rockefeller, lost his beloved grandson to scarlet fever. For children of the poor, immigrants, enslaved people and their descendants, the chances of dying were far worse. The steady beating back of infant and child mortality is one of our greatest human achievements. Interweaving her own experiences as a medical student and doctor, Perri Klass pays tribute to groundbreaking women doctors like Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Mary Putnam Jacobi, and Josephine Baker, and to the nurses, public health advocates, and scientists who brought new approaches and scientific ideas about sanitation and vaccination to families. These scientists, healers, reformers, and parents rewrote the human experience so that—for the first time in human memory—early death is now the exception rather than the rule, bringing about a fundamental transformation in society, culture, and family life. Previously published in hardcover as A Good Time to Be Born.
Author : Christine Pisera Naman
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 2002-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0757300979
In this book, Christine Pisera Naman, whose son Trevor was born on September 11, 2001, has gathered together striking black-and-white photos of her child and forty-nine other babies who share the same birthday. Gathered from each of the fifty states in the union, these shining faces give hope to our nation as its citizens reflect on the anniversary of September 11. With simple eloquence, the author shares two wishes that she has for each little one, such as: I hope that you find good in all people. I hope you catch snowflakes on your tongue. I hope you always have more than you need and share your plenty. I hope you are someone's dream come true.