Making Babies

Making Babies
Author: Sandra Sabatini
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 088920621X

Although the infant has been a consistent figure in literature (and, for many people, a significant figure in personal life), there’s been little attention focused on infants, or on their place in Canadian fiction, until now. In this book, Sandra Sabatini examines Canadian fiction to trace the ideological charge behind the represented infant. Examining writers from L.M. Montgomery and Frederick Philip Grove to Thomas King and Terry Griggs, Sabatini compares women’s writing about babies with the way infants appear in texts by men over the course of a century. She discovers a range of changing attitudes toward babies. After being seen as a source of financial burden, social shame, or sentimental fantasy, infants have increasingly become a source of value and meaning. The book challenges the perception of babies as passive objects of care and argues for a reading of the infant as a subject in itself. It also reflects upon how the representations of infancy in Canadian literature offer an intriguing portrait of how we imagine ourselves.

Making Babies

Making Babies
Author: Wendy Warren
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2012-01-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459229533

MAKING PLANS, MAKING FRIENDS…MAKING A BABY? Elaine Lowry is a divorcée with a plan: to have a baby on her own. Why shouldn’t she have the child she always dreamed of—the child her ex-husband is now having with his new wife! As if it’s not enough that he’s taken the house and, with it, her social standing. Enter sinfully handsome lawyer-for-the-opposing side Mitch Ryder. Feeling guilty about the part he played in Elaine’s divorce, he takes over as landlord on her apartment before it’s sold right from under her. Mitch offers himself as a daddy candidate on one condition: their marriage needs to be all business. But Mitch can’t help the tender protective feelings he has for Elaine, especially when they make love for the first time. And besides, who says business comes before pleasure?

Making Babies

Making Babies
Author: Jill Blakeway
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2009-08-12
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0316053228

Making Babies offers a proven 3-month program designed to help any woman get pregnant. Fertility medicine today is all about aggressive surgical, chemical, and technological intervention, but Dr. David and Blakeway know a better way. Starting by identifying "fertility types," they cover everything from recognizing the causes of fertility problems to making lifestyle choices that enhance fertility to trying surprising strategies such as taking cough medicine, decreasing doses of fertility drugs, or getting acupuncture along with IVF. Making Babies is a must-have for every woman trying to conceive, whether naturally or through medical intervention. Dr. David and Blakeway are revolutionizing the fertility field, one baby at a time.

Making Babies the Hard Way

Making Babies the Hard Way
Author: Caroline Gallup
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2007-04-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1846426340

How far would you go to have a baby? Making Babies the Hard Way is a frank account of one couple's discovery that they cannot have children of their own, and their ensuing struggle through four years of fertility treatment. One in six couples worldwide seek assistance to conceive and 80 per cent of couples undergoing fertility treatment are currently unsuccessful. Writing with humour and honesty, Caroline Gallup describes the social, emotional, spiritual and physical impact of infertility on her and her husband, Bruce, including feelings of bereavement for the absent child, the unavoidable sense of inadequacy and the day-to-day difficulties of financial pressure. As well as telling her own moving story, she also offers information and guidance for others who are infertile, or who are considering or undergoing treatment. This courageous and poignant book will be of interest to couples who cannot conceive and those who are undergoing treatment, as well as their families and friends.

Making Babies: Biomedical Technologies, Reproductive Ethics, and Public Policy

Making Babies: Biomedical Technologies, Reproductive Ethics, and Public Policy
Author: Inmaculada de Melo-Martín
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9401721599

Each year, roughly a million new cases of cancer appear in the US, and more than 500,000 Americans die annually of premature death. Although medical progress has slowed cancer mortality, its incidence is increasing roughly six times faster than cancer mortality is decreasing. Breast cancer, in particular, has been increasing about one percent each year since 1973. At least two of the factors responsible for this surge in breast cancer are women's use of medically-prescribed synthetic hormones and the exposure of the entire population to chemicals such as dioxin. Both exposures increase the likelihood of breast cancer. Although many ethicists worry about involuntary societal imposition of chemicals such as dioxin, through industrial and agricultural processes, allegedly voluntary exposures also constitute both, a public-health problem and a biomedical-ethics difficulty. Physicians recommend synthetic hormones, for example, to women who apparently take them voluntarily. In the case of in vitro fertilization, doctors prescribe hormones to induce egg production and to increase the chances of reproduction for couples who are unable to have children. Despite the benefits of medical technologies such as hormone stimulation and in vitro fertilization, they also carry great risks. The price that childless women pay, for their opportunity to have children through in vitro fertilization, may be their own increased risk of diseases - such as breast cancer - that are hormone dependent.

Babies Having Babies

Babies Having Babies
Author: Kathryn Montgomery
Publisher: Baker's Plays
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1987
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780874409550

An award-winning teleplay on the subject of teen pregnancy, now for high-school theatre groups. "It's a frank, sensitive, humorous script, always honest in its treatment of the topic and the young women facing the prospect of an unplanned, unwanted pregnancy. One that will satisfy teen actresses by its honesty, its openness and appreciation of the pressures young women are expected to cope with, frequently on their own, with little or no guidance from elders, and with little understanding, compassion or thoughtfulness from their peers. These are real people, each one with her own aspirations and plans for the future, a future which may or may not be dimmed by an unplanned pregnancy. But these young women oppose fear and condemnation with a wary courage, search for the realization and the strength to face the future on their own terms."-- publisher Samuel French's website, accessed 2-12-15.

Brighton Baby: A Revolutionary Organic Approach to Having an Extraordinary Child

Brighton Baby: A Revolutionary Organic Approach to Having an Extraordinary Child
Author: Roy Dittmann
Publisher: BalboaPress
Total Pages: 1033
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1452555559

Brighton Baby: A Revolutionary Organic Approach to Having an Extraordinary Child - The Complete Guide to Preconception & Conception is about helping couples achieve optimal health - mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually - before you conceive your future child. Author and perinatal expert, Roy Dittmann, OMD, MH takes couples on a journey that celebrates the power of love as the intangible “blueprint of life”. Dr. Dittmann exposes the dangers of conceiving in our toxic world and focuses couples on how to prepare body, mind, and spirit for the moment of conception. Using integral wisdom, Dr. Dittmann helps couples go from ‘overwhelm’ to taking practical steps to realize their goals of having an extraordinary child. “Brighton Baby is about the art and science of gifting the best of who we are to our future children. It is about reducing human suffering by preventing subtle and overt birth defects before they occur. It is about transforming the context inside of which we conceive and birth children.” - Roy Dittmann, OMD, MH, author Throughout the book, Dr. Dittmann turns the spotlight on the hidden dangers of: heavy metals and other toxins, genetically modified foods, pesticides, artificial sweeteners, rancid oils, antibiotics, processed foods, contaminated drinking water, electrosmog, and the pluses & minuses of vaccines - merging science and common sense to compel couples to take action today to prevent birth defects in their future child. Brighton Baby is a call to action for couples to commit now to consciously preparing for your future child together.

And Baby Makes Three

And Baby Makes Three
Author: John Gottman, PhD
Publisher: Harmony
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2007-01-09
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0307382001

Having a baby is a joyous experience, but even the best relationships are strained during the transition from duo to trio. Lack of sleep, never-ending housework, and new fiscal concerns often lead to conflict, disappointment, and hurt feelings. In And Baby Makes Three Love Lab™ experts John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman teach couples the skills from their successful workshops, so partners can avoid the pitfalls of parenthood by: • maintaining intimacy and romance • replacing a culture of criticism and irritability with one of appreciation • preventing post-partum depression • creating a home environment that nurtures physical, emotional, and mental health, as well as cognitive and behavioral development for your baby Complete with exercises that separate the “master” from the “disaster” couples, And Baby Makes Three helps new parents positively manage the strain that comes along with their bundle of joy.

The Art of Making Children

The Art of Making Children
Author: Francois Ansermet
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429905920

This book explores the issues that surround medically assisted reproduction. It addresses the place of destiny, including how to think about individual destinies in an age of increasingly accessible gene sequencing paired with a growing link between procreation and prediction.