![]() ![]() Discusses the final weeks of pregnancy, the labor process, comfort measures, medical technology, complications, medication, cesareans, post partum, and breastfeeding.For the partner who wishes to be truly helpful in the birthing room, this book is indispensable". This completely updated edition includes thorough information on: Preparing for labor and knowing when it has begun Normal labor and how to help the woman every step of the way Epidurals and other medications for labor Non-drug techniques for easing labor pain Cesarean birth and complications that may require it Breastfeeding and newborn care And much more. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her book The Birth Partner is the definitive guide to helping a woman. 1 Your role as birth partner begins before the mother is in labor. Generations of spouses and partners have relied on Penny Simkins warm and wise. Fully revised in its third edition, The Birth Partner remains the definitive guide for preparing to help a woman through childbirth and the essential manual to have at hand during the event. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. "Since the original publication of The Birth Partner in 1989, new mothers' mates, friends, and relatives and doulas (professional birth assistants) have relied on Penny Simkin's guidance in caring for the new mother from the last few weeks of pregnancy through the early postpartum period. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Travel can transform your cooking, exposing you to new flavours and powerfully health-boosting ingredients that you may not even have heard of before. Better still, learn how to harness the benefits for yourself with a myriad of tasty recipes from around the world, all containing naturally nutrient-rich ingredients that will improve your energy, digestion, heat, immune system, and longevity. Discover which super ingredients will boost your energy, stave off illness, reduce your chance of diseases, make your hair shine, your skin glow and turbocharge your brain power. Unlock the long-held secrets of health-boosting diets from every culture of the globe. ![]() Dive into the world of superfoods with Lonely Planet Food, the world's leading travel publisher's new food imprint. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She also wrote four radio plays broadcast by the BBC and two scripts for the UK, science fiction, cult television series "Blake's 7."īefore becoming a full time writer, Lee worked as a file clerk, an assistant librarian, a shop assistant, and a waitress. She was the author of 77 novels, 14 collections, and almost 300 short stories. Tanith Lee was a British writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. ![]() Or is it something more? Has Jane glimpsed in Silver something no one else has dared to see-not even the robot or his creators? A love so perfect it must be destroyed, for no human could ever compete? So she escapes into the city's violent, decaying slums to embrace a love bordering on madness. And she will give up everything to prove it. Jane is certain that Silver is more than just a machine built to please. Until Jane's life is changed forever by a chance encounter with a robot minstrel with auburn hair and silver skin, whose songs ignite in her a desperate and inexplicable passion. She and her friends are the idle, pampered children of the privileged class, living in luxury on an Earth remade by natural disaster. ![]() Love is made of more than mere flesh and blood.įor sixteen-year-old Jane, life is a mystery she despairs of ever mastering. In this unforgettably poignant novel, Lee has created a classic tale-a beautiful, tragic, sensual, and ultimately triumphant love story of the future. Tanith Lee is one of the most thought-provoking and imaginative authors of our time. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Alice by Heart by Steven Sater![]() ![]() Is that a militant Red Cross Nurse demanding that Alice get BACK. But then the lines between these two worlds begin to blur. What follows is a stunning, fantastical journey that blends Alice's two worlds: her war-ravaged homeland being held together by nurses and soldiers and Winston Churchill, and her beloved Wonderland, a welcome distraction from the bombs and the death, but a place where one rule always applies: the pages must keep turning. In her desperation to keep him holding on, Alice turns to their favorite pastime: recalling the book that bonded them, and telling the story that she knows by heart-the story of Alice in Wonderland. Sick with tuberculosis, Alfred is quarantined, with doctors saying he won't make it through the night. Amidst the rubble of the Blitz of World War II, fifteen-year-old Alice Spencer and her best friend, Alfred, are forced to take shelter in an underground tube station. A young girl takes refuge in a London Tube station during WWII and confronts grief, loss, and first love with the help of her favorite book, Alice in Wonderland, in the debut novel from Tony Award-winning playwright Steven Sater. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But protecting her own, long-neglected heart? That’s the hardest thing she’s ever done. Because it’s easy for Hannah to protect Jack. But the more time she spends with Jack, the more real it all starts to seem. Even though her ex, like a jerk, says no one will believe it. And so Hannah-against her will and her better judgment-finds herself pretending to be Jack’s girlfriend as a cover. Only one catch: He doesn’t want his family to know about his stalker. When Jack’s mom gets sick, he comes home to the family’s Texas ranch to help out. But a few years back, in the wake of a family tragedy, he dropped from the public eye and went off the grid. Jack Stapleton’s a household name-captured by paparazzi on beaches the world over, famous for, among other things, rising out of the waves in all manner of clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka “bodyguard”), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a teenager, Jack had seen the man on the bridge and tried unsuccessfully to convince him not to jump. Jim and Jack are the local policemen investigating the robbery. A decade later, she still keeps it in her handbag, unopened. ![]() He had requested a loan, but was denied by Zara. Ten years ago, a man jumped from a bridge nearby after losing all his money during the financial crisis. The hostages are: the realtor, a young couple (Julia and Ro), an elderly woman (Estelle), a businesswoman (Zara), an older couple (Roger and Anna-Lena) and finally a man (Lennart). Afterwards, a gunshot goes off and the police storm the apartment to find it empty, but covered in blood.Īfterwards, the police question the eight hostages, all of whom are unhelpful and difficult. After a hours-long ordeal, the hostages are released. ![]() The robber takes the people there hostage. The robber flees into a nearby apartment building and into an apartment showing. The robber goes into a bank to demand a small amount of money, only to learn that it is a cashless bank. The story, told achronologically, opens by explaining that, on the day before New Years Eve, there has been a failed bank robbery in a small town. The one-sentence version of this is that Anxious People is about a group of people held hostage after a bank robbery who get to know each other, and they end up helping each other and helping the bank robber to find her way out of the mess. ![]() ![]() ![]() Penny would take action in a similar situation again, “if there was a threat and danger in the present,” he told the Post. A medical examiner ruled Neely’s death a homicide. ![]() ![]() Penny forced 30-year-old Neely to the train floor and restrained him in a chokehold until he stopped breathing. He held down Neely in a fatal chokehold on the subway train May 1 after Neely began shouting at passengers that he was hungry, thirsty, had little to live for and didn’t care if he died. He has not been indicted and has not yet been required to enter a plea. Penny has been out of jail on $100,000 bond. Penny’s comments also come a day after Neely’s funeral was held in Harlem. ![]() The interview is the first time Penny has spoken publicly since being charged with second-degree manslaughter in the killing of Jordan Neely, a New York City street artist known for his Michael Jackson impersonations. 'Jordan Neely did not deserve to die,' New York mayor says as he calls for revamped mental health services - and sidesteps talk of homicide investigation Andrew Savulich/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Jordan Neely is pictured before going to see the Michael Jackson movie, outside the Regal Cinemas in Times Square, New York, in 2009. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Maybe a fox![]() ![]() But Sylvie is too fast, and when she runs to the river they're not supposed to go anywhere near to throw a wish rock just before the school bus comes on a snowy morning, she runs so fast that no one sees what happens.and no one ever sees her again. And if only Sylvie wasn't such a fast-faster than fast-runner. Better than just sisters, better than best friends, they'd be identical twins if only they'd been born in the same year. Worlds collide in a spectacular way when Newbery and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt and Pulitzer Prize nominee and #1 New York Times bestseller Alison McGhee team up to create a fantastical, heartbreaking, and gorgeous tale about two sisters, a fox cub, and what happens when one of the sisters disappears forever. ![]() AUDIOBOOK WINNER OF THE 2016 NATIONAL PARENTING PRODUCT AWARD (NAPPA)! ![]() ![]() ![]() This is an optimistic conversation about our greatest existential threat. He’s also the author of eight books including the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller Drawdown, and his astonishing, beautiful new work entitled Regeneration: Ending The Climate Crisis in One Generation,which aims to guide, inspire and galvanize the burgeoning climate movement. In addition to his profound work as a planetary change agent, Paul is an entrepreneur who founded both Erewhon Markets and Smith & Hawken. ![]() Meet Paul Hawken, one of the environmental movement’s leading voices returning for his second drop on the podcast, the first being at our big live event with IN-Q. But in truth, there are many substantive onramps to participate in the solution, and today’s guest is a wonderfully gracious, charitable, experienced, and optimistic cipher to explore these various paths. ![]() It’s a problem so huge, so existential, most people feel powerless to make a difference. When it comes to taking meaningful steps to redress the climate crisis, so many of us are left crippled. In the words of today’s guest, global warming is not a science problem. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Disney twisted tales peter pan![]() ![]() ![]() Between that and a little help from viral social media campaigns, movies like Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey have come into their own. Of course, following the Covid pandemic, many low-budget movies have managed to gain attention that they perhaps would not have if cinema schedules had been chockfull of big budget blockbusters. While discussing his ideas with The Hollywood Reporter, writer/director Rhys Frake-Waterford shared some small details on how drastically one of the Peter Pan characters will differ from previous versions.Ĭhildren’s stories have always been best when they have a dark undertone, which has been seen in the works of the Brothers Grimm and the stories of Roald Dahl, but not many have successfully turned things of childhood joy into “video nasty” level horror movies. Watch popular content from the following creators: Jessica(booksandcrafts), bnriverside(bnriverside), Kate (she/her)(katesbookcase), Lex(lexitornycosplays), Jessica(booksandcrafts), NoseStuckInaBook(nosestuckinabook), letsgetbookedup(letsgetbookedup), Becca Cornell(bekacornell), Povs, Jokes. ![]() ![]() With Blood and Honey having joined a number of low-budget horror movies that have managed to make huge amounts of profit and sparked a regeneration of the genre, its creator is already well into development on several other childhood-destroying movies including Peter Pan. Discover short videos related to disney twisted tales peter pan on TikTok. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey has tapped into an unexpected wealth of horror potential in the form of reworked children’s stories. ![]() |