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This book is ideal for expectant parents, their partners, and support people seeking comprehensive and trustworthy guidance on the journey to parenthood.
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See morePractical, up-to-date, accurate and research-based information on everything relating to preconception, pregnancy, childbirth and early parenting. It presents medical treatments and natural therapies, the many physical changes of pregnancy, labour and birth and possible variations from 'the norm'.
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The comprehensive Australian bible for expectant parents, Birth provides practical, up-to-date, accurate and research-based information on everything relating to preconception, pregnancy, childbirth and early parenting. It presents medical treatments and natural therapies, the many physical changes of pregnancy, labour and birth and possible variations from 'the norm'. It dispels myths and addresses all the common concerns and endless worries of women, their partners and support people, as well as providing achievable support strategies.
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ISBN: 9781405039819
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 February 2010
Country: Australia
Imprint: Macmillan Australia
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 53.0mm
Width: 154.0mm
Height: 236.0mm
Weight: 752g
Pages: 608
About the Author
Catherine Price has spent much of her working life as a midwife. She still works casually in a Sydney birth centre, but now devotes much of her time running the www.birth.com.au website, with her business partner and close friend, Sandra Robinson. She is married and has two sons.Sandra Robinson, has worked as a childbirth educator in Sydney since 1991. With the tireless help of her close friend of 25 years, Catherine Price, a business partnership and website were born. Sandra is married and has one daughter Alice, and two sons, Liam and Declan.
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