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Journey to VBAC: What You Need to Know
September 15, 2009

The International Cesarian Awareness Network are releasing a new online webinar.

Bliss launches new comprehensive advice booklet on common winter illnesses for parents of premature and sick babies
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Special care baby charity Bliss is today launching a new information resource to support parents taking their sick or premature baby home from hospital over the coming months. Common winter illnesses information booklet, supported by healthcare company, Abbott, is a common sense guide to help parents through the autumn and winter months when their baby could be at greater risk of infection.

Celebrities Birth Stories Online
July 29, 2009

Following the release of the film "The Business of Being Born" and book "Your Best Birth" Ricki Lake and Abbey Epstein have just launched an online series of interviews with celebrities discussing their own experiences of giving birth.

Pregnancy: Older Women - An Essential Guide

October 21, 2009

Need2Know would like to announce the publication of 'Pregnancy: Older Women - An Essential Guide'. The role of women in western society has changed dramatically, but basic biology has not. Eight times as many women are waiting to start a family until after the age of 35 than in 1970. However, reports from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists warn that women who wait this long face higher risks.

'Pregnancy: Older Women - An Essential Guide', due out on 1st December 2009, is a comprehensive guide on what to expect in pregnancy, from conception to postnatal care. It specifically addresses all the issues around the extra care and support an older women needs. Step-by-step, this friendly guide walks mothers and partners through every stage of pregnancy with specific attention to problems such as declining fertility and the physical strain on your body. There are chapters on IVF treatment, nutritional needs and the emotional implications of mature motherhood.

Author Jo Johnson is a mother of three and a writer with nine years of nursing experience in the field of gynaecology, obstetrics and fertility. She aims to help expectant mothers feel prepared and comfortable with their pregnancy by giving them all the information they need in one essential guide.

'Pregnancy: Older Women' will help ease all older mothers' uncertainties and will provide all of those involved in the pregnancy with a sound knowledge of what to expect and how to prepare.

Published by Need2Know - the imprint of People's Publisher Forward Press that focuses on overcoming real life problems - 'Pregnancy: Older Women - An Essential Guide' is the 36th in the series and is available now from the Need2Know website (www.need2knowbooks.co.uk) or by calling 01733 898103 or emailing sales@n2kbooks.com.

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Informed Choice titles
Support in labour
Listening to your baby`s heartbeat during labour
Ultrasound scans - what you need to know
Alcohol and pregnancy
Positions for labour and birth
Epidural pain relief in labour
Feeding your baby - breast or bottle?
Is my baby alright?
If your baby is in the breech position, what are your choices?
Where will you have your baby?
Do you want a waterbirth?
When your baby is overdue
Eating well - for your baby and for you
Non-epidural pain relief
Caring for yourself and feeling well after you have had your baby
How will your baby be born?
Caesarean section and subsequent births
Vitamin K for your baby
Information for women who are Rhesus negative
Mood changes after childbirth
Sickle cell and thalassaemia disorders: screening offered to mothers and babies
Sexual health and contraception before and after childbirth
Anaemia - preventing, detecting and treatment in pregnancy and beyond
Infections in pregnancy - prevention, detection and treatment
Health for parenthood - practical advice on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle for you and your baby