Reproductive Heartbreak. Real Hope.Not every path to parenthood is simple—or spoken aloud.Maternal Hope is a powerful collection of raw and rarely shared stories from everyday people navigating painful realities on the road to starting a family.More than a dozen contributing authors share candid essays that reflect a wide range of family-building experiences. Each author opens their heart and details a deeply perso...

Real, step-by-step solutions for creating and managing data forms in SharePoint 2010 with InfoPath: fast, accurate, proven, and easy to useA concise, task-based guide for SharePoint 2010 adopters who want to enhance business processes and workflows with powerful InfoPath data formsTested, step-by-step procedures for solving a broad spectrum of business and technical problems: an indispensable resource for both information workers and IT prosAuthored by leading busin...

True IVF stories and inspiration from the women who have been there. In-vitro fertilization is not a journey you need to take alone. The women in this book who share their stories, thoughts, and lessons learned, have been in the IVF trenches - some for long periods of time. We call them the IVF veterans. They've struggled, cried, laughed, and inspired. Let their experience guide you through the process and use their knowledge and tips as a beacon of insight for your own journey. In-vitro f...

A wide range of women—actors, athletes, academics, CEOs, writers, small-business owners, birth workers, physicians, and activists—share their experiences of becoming mothers in this multifaceted, moving, and revealing collection.Throughout her difficult pregnancy and following her frightening labor experience, Amy Schumer found camaraderie and empowerment in hearing birth stories from other women, including those of her friend Christy Turlington Burns. Turlington B...

Almost all of us know someone with cancer.And, of course, we want nothing more than to offer comfort and support, and foster hope. But we don’t always know how—and may feel uncomfortable asking. Following her own treatment for cancer, Lori Hope created a survey for cancer survivors addressing issues they wanted their families, friends, and caregivers to understand. The results of the newly expanded survey are presented with honesty, insight, and humor, and compleme...

Dear future mom,how many times have you heard negative stories about other women’s birth experiences?Your mother, your aunt, your sister, your girlfriend! Everyone has a horror story to share about giving birth!The result is that you convince yourself that birth is associated with excruciating pain.What a false belief! What a disastrous belief! Disastrous for yourself and the little angel that you’ll bring to this world.Fear makes your body become te...

Stillbirth, defined as the death of an infant between 20 weeks' gestation and birth, is a tragedy repeated thirty thousand times every year in the United States. That means more than eighty mothers a day feel their babies slip silently from their bodies, the only sound in the delivery room their own sobs. Eighty stillborn babies a day means heartbroken families mourn the death of children who will never breathe, gurgle, learn to walk, or go to school.In 2006, Janel Atlas became one...

**A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!Use Dr. Bradley Nelson's bestselling Body Code techniques to remove the emotional walls around your heart**Honing in on the central concept of his runaway bestseller, The Emotion Code, Dr. Nelson presents an expanded, deeper look at Heart-Walls in his next book, The Heart Code. All of us, Dr. Nelson realized, have walls around our hearts—emotional barriers that prevent us from fulfilling our potential and finding ...

The miscarriage of a hoped-for child is a shattering loss and those who had already begun to feel attached to the baby will naturally grieve—particularly the mother and father but also siblings this baby would have had, extended family, and friends. This compassionate guide contains 100 practical ideas to help those affected by the tragedy of miscarriage, from teaching the principles of grief and mourning to practical, action-oriented tips for coping with the natural difficulties of a loss...

I Am Not My Breast Cancer gathers the warm, loving, frank, and informed voices of more than eight hundred women—from every state in the nation and from continents as far away as Australia and Africa—who reveal their fears, trade advice, share experiences, and express their deepest, most intimate concerns. Essential reading for any woman with this diagnosis, it offers the companionship of other women dealing with this disease. Taking the reader chronologically through the stages of...

Twenty-one vivid, moving essays on caesarean birth“No one talks about C-sections as surgery,” writes SooJin Pate. “They talk about it as if it’s just another way—albeit more convenient way—of giving birth.” The twenty-one essays in My Caesarean add back to the conversation the missing voices of a vast, invisible sisterhood.Robin Schoenthaler reflects: “A C-section for us meant life.” And yet, women who don’t give birth vaginally—by choice ...

Saskia has identified a profound connection between subconscious fear, negative beliefs, and unexplained infertility. She has chosen to share them to inspire women who have almost given up hope. She has written this book to explain how to achieve a mind-body connection that can result in successful conception. The book explores unspoken fears related to conception, how to reverse negative thinking, how to build safety in the body, and the importance of a personal connection to your womb. T...