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In Misconceptions, bestselling author Naomi Wolf she demythologizes motherhood and reveals the dangers of common assumptions about childbirth. With uncompromising honesty, she describes how hormones eroded her sense of independence, ultrasounds tested her commitment to abortion rights, and the keepers of the OB/GYN establishment lacked compassion. The weeks after her first daughter's birth taught her how society, employers, and even husbands can manipulate...

Isabella and Carlos live in St. Louis, Missouri--and are totally in love. They are 18 and finishing their senior year of high school when they decide to have a baby and get married. Carlos joins the military to support his new family. But when tragedy strikes, Isabella is left completely devastated and forced to raise her child alone. A year later, she is reunited with Pete, a boy she knew in high school. For a while, she thinks she's found a second...

The MCH County Data Sets are recent information or data for Colorado counties for many of 36 Maternal and Child Health Performance and Outcome Measures. Performance measure topics include Teen Fertility Rates, Motor Vehicle Deaths, Breastfeeding Initiation, Infant Mortality, Access to School-based Health, Teen Suicides, etc. Data sets released January 2000- .

When a pair of young lovers, employees of a prestigious accounting firm, are brutally murdered, mid-twenty-first-century lieutenant Eve Dallas finds the case complicated by the suspicious disappearance of a pregnant woman.

Publisher Annotation: Robin Benway?s beautiful interweaving story of three very different teenagers connected by blood explores the meaning of family in all its forms?how to find it, how to keep it, and how to love it.

Native American guide Jane Whitefield returns from retirement to the world of the runner determined to hide a young pregnant girl who has been tracked across the country by a team of hired hunters.

New York PR exec Hannah Mathews is in remission from the same disease that claimed her mother's life months before: breast cancer. She heads south in an attempt to persuade her 85-year-old grandma, Jenny, to sell the Seaview Inn, the Florida Keys resort owned by her family for decades, and move into a retirement home.

Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child it produces. In 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming-of-age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the soundtrack of Prince, she wears a special, custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress...

"An acclaimed scientist reveals the latest discoveries in prenatal care and the critical takeaways for expecting parents"--