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The child of your dreams
aeked questions regarding exercise and nutrition during pregnancy are seldom found in a single video source. The viewer won’t gee any skimpy. skin-tight leotards in thi5 video: each parIicip?nt is comlortably dressed in loose-ff%fns T-shirts white exeruse shorts. en: aerobic shoes. The approPria:eenessof the attire conhrms the commitment of this production toward its target audience, expectant and new mothers. while validating their pregnancy. self image. and changfng physical apper.rence. When it comes ro ihoxing an exercise video for the maternity client, this reviewer will choose and recommend Mother Well Matemihr Health ond Fitness Video. The Child of Your Dreams. By Laum Archem Hurlev and Piero Ferrucci. Rochester, V&nont: Destiny Books. 1992.94pages $12.95, softcover. Reviewed by: Barbara Winter, RN, ~NM. Nurse-Midwifery Program, School of Health Related Professions, University of Mvdicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Newark, New Jersey. The Child of Your Dreams is an unusual book aimed et readiness and au~ereness for indlvlduals contemplating hating a child. The authors offer a tixture of practical advice and spiritual dimensions from preconception to pregnanc.y. to childbirth and to parenthcal Throughout the text is a se&s of meditations designed to allow the reader and assimilate the wonderment and awe of the easily bypassed moments of conception, gestational life, birth, and infancy, from a not-soypical point of view. These suided meditetions are deJgned L expand the cor~tiousness of the reader bs the humon potential we all embody. is a bo>k of great optimism and hope for net only individuals, but also humansy. Accom-
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panying the book are beautiful etheparent education, offering an engagreal illustrations that punctuate the ing look into oneself. It offers a baltext. ance to the “hands-on” manuals of One chapter is devoted to preconpregnancy and childbinh, allowing ception considerations, aslung questhe time and space for contemplation bans of the reader about readiness of the extmordinay. and willingness to rearrenge on~‘s current existence for another. The You and Your Newborn Baby: A authors push the reader to analyze Guide to the First Months After the reality of hawng a baby, that 1s. Birth. By Linda Tcdd. Boston. The the relationships of the partners. the Harvard Common Press, 1993. 134 saclifices. the relentlessI.@, and the pages. $5 95. paperback responsibility day after day. night afReviewed by: Donna Quinnter night Is the reader ready and tillO’Brien, mic. SNM. Nurse-Midwifery ing to give up a part of his or her own Pqram, School of Health Related life, career. freedom, and quiet soliProfessions. University of Medicine tude? in 1 Dentistry of New Jersey, New. Huxley and Fermcci que;tion the ark, New Jersey individual’s fantasy of hating a child. What do these potential parents en. You and Your Newborn Baby prevision their baby to be like? Have sentsas it5 main focus oatnatal care. they accounted for not only the ten. infent care. and pare&g in the mider moments. what they themselves 6al pos!mrmm wiod. The author will receive from the relationship, but p&s oL that tar many women in also the reality of how infants bethe united states appropriate pmt. have, as well es children end adolesparturn advice is difficult to find becents? Do oeo& considerins hatino cawe of e lack of sufficient role moda baby go ihe entire distancewith th; els. Todd discussesthe @endof early fantasv. to the reality of this child in dischargeafter birth ti:hout the bentheir l&es? efit of adequate resourcesto provide Furthermore. the question of why follow-up care for mother and baby. one chooses to have children is The pupae of this baok. according posed. Is it out of one’s own needs, to the author, is to assemble answers the needs of so&@. or the primal to the many questions and concerrx urge of the species.&has there been parents encounter and to address the a choice at all? These end other proemotional aspectsof becoming a parvocativequestions are put to the ent reader. Todd is d childbirth educator with The authors also elaborate on the 20 years’ expaience and is a faculty evolution of the climate oi childbirth member for the fntemational Childand human behavior. quoting wellbirth Education Association She known authors in this area such as holds a master’s degree in Public Dick-Read, Leboyer. Odent. MonHealth and coordinates the petinatal education mooram at Fairview River. tague, and Jung side Medical Center in Minneapolis, Thii book is counterbalanced with startling facts @en about unwanted and thus is qualified to vnite on this important topic. pregnancy and child abuse. aswell as studies that support the authors’ poThe text is composed of three sitions on nurturing. This portion of main categories: the newborn the book is sharply reality oriented. mother, the newborn baby, and the brfngfngone back to the world as it is newborn family. Issuesand concerns in the newborn mother are clearly today. addressed.Perineal care. breast care. For this reviewer. reading this nutrition. and physiologic changes book was a refreshmg approach to
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panying the book are beautiful etheparent education, offering an engagreal illustrations that punctuate the ing look into oneself. It offers a baltext. ance to the “hands-on” manuals of One chapter is devoted to preconpregnancy and childbinh, allowing ception considerations, aslung questhe time and space for contemplation bans of the reader about readiness of the extmordinay. and willingness to rearrenge on~‘s current existence for another. The You and Your Newborn Baby: A authors push the reader to analyze Guide to the First Months After the reality of hawng a baby, that 1s. Birth. By Linda Tcdd. Boston. The the relationships of the partners. the Harvard Common Press, 1993. 134 saclifices. the relentlessI.@, and the pages. $5 95. paperback responsibility day after day. night afReviewed by: Donna Quinnter night Is the reader ready and tillO’Brien, mic. SNM. Nurse-Midwifery ing to give up a part of his or her own Pqram, School of Health Related life, career. freedom, and quiet soliProfessions. University of Medicine tude? in 1 Dentistry of New Jersey, New. Huxley and Fermcci que;tion the ark, New Jersey individual’s fantasy of hating a child. What do these potential parents en. You and Your Newborn Baby prevision their baby to be like? Have sentsas it5 main focus oatnatal care. they accounted for not only the ten. infent care. and pare&g in the mider moments. what they themselves 6al pos!mrmm wiod. The author will receive from the relationship, but p&s oL that tar many women in also the reality of how infants bethe united states appropriate pmt. have, as well es children end adolesparturn advice is difficult to find becents? Do oeo& considerins hatino cawe of e lack of sufficient role moda baby go ihe entire distancewith th; els. Todd discussesthe @endof early fantasv. to the reality of this child in dischargeafter birth ti:hout the bentheir l&es? efit of adequate resourcesto provide Furthermore. the question of why follow-up care for mother and baby. one chooses to have children is The pupae of this baok. according posed. Is it out of one’s own needs, to the author, is to assemble answers the needs of so&@. or the primal to the many questions and concerrx urge of the species.&has there been parents encounter and to address the a choice at all? These end other proemotional aspectsof becoming a parvocativequestions are put to the ent reader. Todd is d childbirth educator with The authors also elaborate on the 20 years’ expaience and is a faculty evolution of the climate oi childbirth member for the fntemational Childand human behavior. quoting wellbirth Education Association She known authors in this area such as holds a master’s degree in Public Dick-Read, Leboyer. Odent. MonHealth and coordinates the petinatal education mooram at Fairview River. tague, and Jung side Medical Center in Minneapolis, Thii book is counterbalanced with startling facts @en about unwanted and thus is qualified to vnite on this important topic. pregnancy and child abuse. aswell as studies that support the authors’ poThe text is composed of three sitions on nurturing. This portion of main categories: the newborn the book is sharply reality oriented. mother, the newborn baby, and the brfngfngone back to the world as it is newborn family. Issuesand concerns in the newborn mother are clearly today. addressed.Perineal care. breast care. For this reviewer. reading this nutrition. and physiologic changes book was a refreshmg approach to
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