| Introduction |
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What's New in This Edition |
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| Part 1: Getting Started with Pregnancy |
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Chapter 1 Seeing Double Lines: I Think I'm Pregnant! |
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9 | (18) |
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Recognizing the Signs of Pregnancy |
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Determining Whether You're Pregnant |
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11 | (2) |
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Getting an answer at home |
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Going to your practitioner for answers |
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12 | (1) |
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Calculating your due date |
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12 | (1) |
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Selecting the Right Practitioner for You |
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13 | (4) |
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Asking questions before you choose |
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15 | (2) |
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Keeping Your Medicines and Vaccinations in Check |
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17 | (10) |
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Reviewing your medications |
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17 | (4) |
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Recognizing the importance of vaccinations and immunity |
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21 | (6) |
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Chapter 2 Your Pregnancy at a Glance: Overview of Pregnancy Week-by-Week |
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27 | (12) |
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28 | (1) |
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29 | (1) |
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34 | (1) |
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35 | (1) |
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36 | (1) |
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Common Tests during Pregnancy |
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36 | (3) |
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Chapter 3 Preparing for Life during Pregnancy |
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39 | (24) |
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40 | (3) |
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Preparing for Physical and Emotional Changes |
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43 | (3) |
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43 | (1) |
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Living through leg cramps |
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44 | (1) |
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Noticing vaginal discharge |
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44 | (1) |
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Putting up with backaches |
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45 | (1) |
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46 | (1) |
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Understanding the Effects of Medications, Alcohol, and Drugs on Your Baby |
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46 | (5) |
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46 | (2) |
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48 | (1) |
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49 | (2) |
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Using recreational/illicit drugs |
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51 | (1) |
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Looking at Lifestyle Changes |
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51 | (8) |
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Pampering yourself with beauty treatments |
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51 | (3) |
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Relaxing in hot tubs, whirlpools, saunas, or steam rooms |
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54 | (1) |
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55 | (2) |
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57 | (1) |
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58 | (1) |
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Working during Pregnancy: A Different Type of Labor |
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59 | (4) |
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Considering occupational hazards |
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60 | (1) |
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Understanding pregnancy and the law |
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61 | (2) |
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Chapter 4 Diet and Exercise for the Expectant Mother |
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63 | (24) |
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Looking at Healthy Weight Gain |
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64 | (4) |
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Determining how much is enough |
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64 | (1) |
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Avoiding weight obsession |
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65 | (2) |
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Understanding your baby's weight gain |
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67 | (1) |
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Taking Stock of What You're Taking In |
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68 | (6) |
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Using the USDA Choose My Plate |
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68 | (4) |
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72 | (2) |
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Determining Which Foods Are Safe |
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74 | (3) |
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Eyeing potentially harmful foods |
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74 | (1) |
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Debunking popular food myths |
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75 | (2) |
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Considering Special Dietary Needs |
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77 | (2) |
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Eating right, vegetarian-style |
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77 | (1) |
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Staying healthy, vegan-style |
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77 | (1) |
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Maintaining a gluten-free diet |
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78 | (1) |
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79 | (1) |
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79 | (1) |
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79 | (10) |
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Adapting to your body's changes |
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80 | (2) |
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Exercising without overdoing it |
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82 | (1) |
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Comparing forms of exercise |
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83 | (4) |
| Part II: Pregnancy: Countdown |
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Chapter 5 The First Trimester |
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89 | (34) |
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89 | (4) |
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Following the numbers: How the embryo grows |
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90 | (2) |
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Take two: Noting how twins develop |
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92 | (1) |
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Adapting to How Your Body Changes |
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93 | (8) |
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93 | (1) |
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94 | (1) |
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94 | (3) |
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97 | (1) |
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98 | (1) |
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99 | (1) |
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100 | (1) |
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Going to Your First Prenatal Appointment |
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101 | (12) |
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Understanding the consultation |
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101 | (5) |
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Considering the physical exam |
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106 | (1) |
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Eyeing the standard tests |
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107 | (6) |
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Considering Options for Detecting Genetic Abnormalities in the First Trimester |
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113 | (5) |
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114 | (1) |
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Chorionic villus sampling |
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115 | (3) |
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Recognizing Causes for Concern |
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118 | (3) |
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118 | (1) |
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119 | (1) |
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120 | (1) |
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For Partners: Reacting to the News |
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121 | (2) |
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Chapter 6 The Second Trimester |
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123 | (28) |
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Discovering How Your Baby Is Developing |
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123 | (3) |
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Understanding Your Changing Body |
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126 | (6) |
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Forgetfulness and clumsiness |
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126 | (1) |
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127 | (1) |
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127 | (1) |
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127 | (2) |
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Lower abdominal/groin pain |
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129 | (1) |
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130 | (1) |
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Nosebleeds and bleeding gums |
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130 | (1) |
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130 | (2) |
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Checking In: Prenatal Visits |
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132 | (15) |
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Second-trimester blood tests |
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132 | (5) |
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"Looking" at sound waves: Ultrasound |
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137 | (4) |
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Testing with amniocentesis |
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141 | (4) |
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Other prenatal tests and procedures |
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145 | (2) |
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Recognizing Causes for Concern |
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147 | (2) |
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147 | (1) |
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147 | (1) |
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Cervical insufficiency/Incompetent Cervix |
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148 | (1) |
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Knowing when to seek help |
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149 | (1) |
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For Partners: Watching Mom Grow |
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149 | (2) |
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Chapter 7 The Third Trimester |
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151 | (38) |
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Your Baby Gets Ready for Birth |
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151 | (3) |
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Movin' and shakin': Fetal movements |
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153 | (1) |
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Flexing the breathing muscles |
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154 | (1) |
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154 | (1) |
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Keeping Up with Your Changing Body |
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154 | (13) |
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156 | (1) |
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Braxton-Hicks contractions |
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157 | (1) |
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157 | (1) |
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158 | (1) |
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158 | (2) |
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160 | (1) |
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161 | (1) |
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Pregnancy rashes and itches |
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161 | (1) |
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Preparing for breast-feeding |
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162 | (1) |
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163 | (1) |
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164 | (1) |
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164 | (1) |
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165 | (1) |
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Urinary stress incontinence |
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165 | (1) |
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166 | (1) |
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Hitting the Home Stretch: Prenatal Visits in the Third Trimester |
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167 | (4) |
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Taking Group B strep cultures |
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167 | (1) |
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168 | (1) |
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Assessing your baby's current health |
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168 | (3) |
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171 | (5) |
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171 | (1) |
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Going back to school: Classes to take |
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172 | (2) |
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Asking for a c-section on demand |
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174 | (1) |
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175 | (1) |
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176 | (1) |
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Getting Ready to Head to the Hospital |
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176 | (4) |
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176 | (2) |
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Determining who's coming to the hospital |
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178 | (1) |
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Choosing and using a car seat |
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179 | (1) |
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Recognizing Causes for Concern |
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180 | (7) |
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181 | (1) |
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181 | (1) |
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Decreased amniotic fluid volume |
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181 | (1) |
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182 | (1) |
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182 | (1) |
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183 | (1) |
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184 | (1) |
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184 | (1) |
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185 | (2) |
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For Partners Getting Down to the Wire |
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187 | (2) |
| Part III: The Big Event: Labor, Delivery, and Recovery |
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189 | (128) |
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Chapter 8 Honey, I Think I'm in Labor! |
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191 | (32) |
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Knowing When Labor Is Real and When It Isn't |
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191 | (5) |
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Noticing changes before labor begins |
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192 | (1) |
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Discerning false labor from true labor |
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193 | (1) |
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Deciding when to call your practitioner |
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194 | (1) |
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Checking for labor with an internal exam |
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195 | (1) |
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Getting Admitted to the Hospital |
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196 | (2) |
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Settling into your hospital room |
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197 | (1) |
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Checking out the accommodations |
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197 | (1) |
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198 | (4) |
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199 | (2) |
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Other tests of fetal health |
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201 | (1) |
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Nudging Things Along: Labor Induction |
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202 | (4) |
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Medical! indicated induction |
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202 | (1) |
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203 | (1) |
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204 | (1) |
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205 | (1) |
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Getting the Big Picture: Stages and Characteristics of Labor |
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206 | (5) |
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207 | (4) |
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211 | (1) |
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211 | (1) |
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211 | (7) |
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212 | (1) |
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213 | (3) |
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216 | (2) |
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Considering Alternative Birthing Methods |
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218 | (5) |
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Delivering without anesthesia |
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219 | (1) |
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219 | (1) |
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220 | (1) |
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Immersing yourself in a water birth |
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221 | (2) |
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Chapter 9 Special Delivery: Bringing Your Baby into the World |
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223 | (22) |
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Having a Vaginal Delivery |
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224 | (9) |
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225 | (3) |
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228 | (2) |
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Handling prolonged second-stage labor |
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230 | (1) |
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The big moment: Delivering your baby |
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231 | (1) |
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232 | (1) |
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232 | (1) |
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Assisting Nature: Operative Vaginal Delivery |
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233 | (1) |
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Having a Cesarean Delivery |
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234 | (6) |
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236 | (1) |
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Looking at reasons for cesarean delivery |
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237 | (2) |
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Recovering from a cesarean delivery |
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239 | (1) |
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Congratulations! You Did It! |
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240 | (5) |
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240 | (1) |
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Understanding postpartum bleeding |
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240 | (1) |
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Hearing your baby's first cry |
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241 | (1) |
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Checking your baby's condition |
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241 | (1) |
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242 | (1) |
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Banking cord blood and tissue |
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243 | (1) |
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Finding out about new uses for your placenta |
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244 | (1) |
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Chapter 10 Hello, World! Meet Your Newborn |
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245 | (18) |
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Looking at Your Bundle of Joy |
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245 | (8) |
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246 | (1) |
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247 | (1) |
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248 | (1) |
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Blotches, patches, and more |
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248 | (1) |
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249 | (1) |
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250 | (1) |
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250 | (1) |
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251 | (1) |
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251 | (1) |
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251 | (1) |
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Seeing how your baby breathes |
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252 | (1) |
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Knowing What to Expect in the Hospital |
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253 | (5) |
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Preparing baby for life outside the womb |
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254 | (1) |
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Understanding baby's developing digestive system |
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255 | (1) |
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256 | (1) |
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Spending time in the neonatal intensive care unit |
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257 | (1) |
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Checking In: Baby's First Doctor Visit |
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258 | (2) |
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Considering heart rate and circulatory changes |
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259 | (1) |
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Looking at weight changes |
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259 | (1) |
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For Partners: Home at Last with the New Family |
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260 | (3) |
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Chapter 11 Taking Care of Yourself after Delivery |
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263 | (28) |
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Recuperating from Delivery |
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263 | (8) |
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Looking and feeling like a new mom |
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264 | (1) |
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Understanding postpartum bleeding |
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264 | (2) |
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Dealing with perineal pain |
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266 | (2) |
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268 | (1) |
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269 | (1) |
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Battling the hemorrhoid blues |
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269 | (1) |
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Understanding postpartum bowel function |
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270 | (1) |
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Continuing to recover at home |
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271 | (1) |
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Recovering from a Cesarean Delivery |
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271 | (7) |
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Going to the recovery room |
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271 | (1) |
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Taking it one step at a time |
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272 | (2) |
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Understanding post-cesarean pain |
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274 | (1) |
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Dealing with post-op pain |
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275 | (1) |
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275 | (1) |
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Continuing to recover at home |
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276 | (2) |
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Going through More Postpartum Changes |
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278 | (6) |
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Sweating like a... new mom |
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279 | (1) |
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Dealing with breast engorgement |
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279 | (1) |
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279 | (1) |
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Chasing away the baby, blues |
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280 | (1) |
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Recognizing postpartum depression |
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281 | (2) |
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Checking your progress: The first postpartum doctor visit |
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283 | (1) |
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Returning to "Normal" Life |
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284 | (7) |
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Getting fit all over again |
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284 | (1) |
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285 | (1) |
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Pondering your postpartum diet |
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286 | (1) |
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286 | (1) |
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287 | (1) |
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288 | (1) |
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289 | (2) |
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Chapter 12 Feeding Your Baby |
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291 | (26) |
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Deciding between Breast and Bottle |
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291 | (5) |
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Sizing up the advantages of breast-feeding |
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292 | (3) |
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Checking out why some moms may choose bottle-feeding |
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295 | (1) |
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Latching onto Breast-Feeding |
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296 | (14) |
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Looking at the mechanics of lactation |
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297 | (2) |
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Checking out breast-feeding positions |
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299 | (1) |
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Getting the baby to latch on |
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300 | (1) |
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301 | (2) |
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303 | (1) |
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Looking at birth control options |
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304 | (1) |
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Determining which medications are safe |
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304 | (2) |
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306 | (4) |
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310 | (1) |
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Bottle-Feeding for Beginners |
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310 | (4) |
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311 | (1) |
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Choosing the best bottles and nipples |
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311 | (1) |
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Feeding your baby from a bottle |
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312 | (2) |
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Dealing with Baby's Developing Digestive System |
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314 | (3) |
| Part W: beating with Special Concerns |
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317 | (86) |
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Chapter 13 Pregnancies with Special Considerations |
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319 | (28) |
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Figuring Out How Age Matters |
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319 | (5) |
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320 | (3) |
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323 | (1) |
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323 | (1) |
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324 | (14) |
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Looking at types of multiples |
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325 | (1) |
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Determining whether multiples are identical or fraternal |
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326 | (2) |
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Screening for Down syndrome in pregnancies with twins or more |
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328 | (1) |
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Conducting genetic testing in pregnancies with twins or more |
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328 | (1) |
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Keeping track of which baby is which |
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329 | (1) |
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Living day-to-day during a multiple pregnancy |
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330 | (2) |
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Going through labor and delivery |
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332 | (2) |
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Covering special issues for moms with multiples |
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334 | (2) |
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Monitoring for preterm labor in twins |
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336 | (2) |
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338 | (4) |
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Realizing how each pregnancy differs |
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338 | (1) |
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Giving birth after a prior cesarean delivery |
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339 | (3) |
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If You're a Nontraditional Family |
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342 | (1) |
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Preparing Your Child (or Children) for a New Arrival |
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343 | (4) |
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343 | (1) |
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Making baby-sitting arrangements for your delivery |
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344 | (1) |
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344 | (3) |
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Chapter 14 When Things Get Complicated |
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347 | (24) |
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Dealing with Preterm Labor |
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348 | (5) |
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Checking for signs of preterm labor |
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350 | (1) |
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351 | (1) |
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352 | (1) |
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Delivering the baby early |
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353 | (1) |
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353 | (3) |
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Understanding Placental Conditions |
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356 | (2) |
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356 | (1) |
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357 | (1) |
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Recognizing Problems with the Amniotic Fluid and Sac |
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358 | (3) |
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359 | (1) |
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Too little amniotic fluid |
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360 | (1) |
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Rupture of the amniotic sac |
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360 | (1) |
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Describing Problems with Fetal Growth |
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361 | (3) |
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Smaller-than-average babies |
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362 | (1) |
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Larger-than-average babies |
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363 | (1) |
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Looking at Blood Incompatibilities |
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364 | (3) |
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364 | (2) |
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366 | (1) |
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Dealing with Breech Presentation |
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367 | (2) |
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Pondering Post-Term Pregnancy |
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369 | (2) |
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Chapter 15 Pregnancy in Sickness and in Health |
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371 | (26) |
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Getting an Infection While Pregnant |
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371 | (15) |
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Bladder and kidney infections |
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371 | (2) |
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373 | (2) |
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375 | (2) |
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Seasonal allergies and hay fever |
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377 | (1) |
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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections |
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378 | (1) |
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379 | (1) |
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379 | (1) |
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380 | (1) |
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) |
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380 | (1) |
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381 | (1) |
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382 | (1) |
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Parvovirus infection (fifth disease) |
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382 | (1) |
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Stomach viruses (gastroenteritis) |
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383 | (1) |
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383 | (2) |
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385 | (1) |
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Handling Pre-Pregnancy Conditions |
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386 | (11) |
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386 | (1) |
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387 | (1) |
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Deep-vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolus |
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388 | (1) |
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388 | (2) |
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390 | (1) |
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391 | (2) |
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Inflammatory bowel disease |
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393 | (1) |
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Seizure disorder (epilepsy) |
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393 | (1) |
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394 | (3) |
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Chapter 16 Coping with the Unexpected |
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397 | (6) |
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Surviving Recurrent Miscarriages |
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398 | (1) |
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Coping with Late-Pregnancy Loss |
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399 | (1) |
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Dealing with Fetal Abnormalities |
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400 | (1) |
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401 | (1) |
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402 | (1) |
| Part V: The Part of Tens |
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403 | (28) |
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Chapter 17 Ten Things Nobody Tells You |
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405 | (6) |
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Pregnancy Lasts Longer than Nine Months |
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405 | (1) |
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Other People Can Drive You Crazy |
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406 | (1) |
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You Feel Exhausted in the First Trimester |
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406 | (1) |
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Round Ligament Pain Really Hurts |
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407 | (1) |
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Your Belly Becomes a Hand Magnet |
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407 | (1) |
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Hemorrhoids Are a Royal Pain in the Butt |
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407 | (1) |
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Sometimes Women Poop While Pushing |
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408 | (1) |
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The Weight Stays On after the Baby Comes Out |
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408 | (1) |
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Postpartum Bonding Really Does Happen |
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409 | (1) |
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Breast Engorgement Really Sucks, and Breast-Feeding Can Be a Production |
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409 | (2) |
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Chapter 18 Ten Healthy Snacks for Pregnant Women |
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411 | (12) |
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Chunky Dried Fig, Coconut, and Almond Granola |
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412 | (1) |
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Guilt-Free Oatmeal Cookies |
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413 | (1) |
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Peanut Butter, Chocolate, and Banana Quesadillas |
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414 | (1) |
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415 | (1) |
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Herbed Cottage Cheese Dip with Whole-Grain Bread |
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416 | (1) |
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Roasted Tomatoes and Mozzarella Bites |
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417 | (1) |
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Chickpea Parsley Dip with Pita Chips and Celery and Carrot Sticks |
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418 | (1) |
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Peanut Butter and Dried Fruit Bars |
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419 | (1) |
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420 | (1) |
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421 | (2) |
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Chapter 19 Ten Key Things You Can See on Ultrasound |
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423 | (8) |
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Measurement of Crown-Rump Length |
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423 | (1) |
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424 | (1) |
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424 | (1) |
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425 | (1) |
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426 | (1) |
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426 | (1) |
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427 | (1) |
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427 | (1) |
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428 | (1) |
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429 | (2) |
| Index |
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