pregnancy

A guide to pregnancy, birth, and infant care for African-American women, exploring African, Caribbean, and African-American heritage as it pertains to diet, baby names, birthing, infant care, health risks, and other topics; and including stories and advice from African-American mothers.

In 1950s New York, sixteen-year-old Jamie's life is unsettled since her father returned from serving time in prison for refusing to name people as Communists, when her best friend turns to Jamie for help with an unplanned pregnancy.

Explains the biology of pregnancy, examining the reasons humans are conceived in the fashion that they are, describing the development of the embryo, and discussing the ways babies cope with the dangers they face during and immediately after birth.

After sixteen-year-old Jules loses her boyfriend she experiences complications from the pregnancy that drove him away and suddenly, some of the people closest to her are behaving as if her baby is not real.

At sixteen, Sara is pregnant, alone, and desperate, so she arranges an open adoption with George and Eva, an older couple longing for a child, but after the baby is born, Sara's unmistakable link with the child forces Eva to make a drastic decision with devastating consequences.

Rae Perry is far from home and pregnant during earthquake season in California, but the only thing that shakes her up violently is when Jessup the baby's father leaves her, and only a miracle will help her now.

Two mothers--a human and a bird--prepare for the birth of their babies while living very close to each other.

Dealing with her grief over her mother's recent death and major problems her family and friends are facing cause Kim so much stress she even finds it hard to pray, but things improve when she really starts to "let go and let God.".

Provides information on every stage of pregnancy and childbirth, presented in question and answer format within the general topics of preparing for pregnancy, prenatal care, the developing baby, the changing body, staying fit and healthy, issues in pregnancy, labor and birth, and the first six weeks.

The author describes the sometimes incredible details of her second pregnancy, telling how she and her husband, both driven Harvard academics, came to the decision to have their son after the fetus was diagnosed with Down syndrome, and sharing the extraordinary events that helped them know they had made the right decision.