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Keepsake pocket quilt novels volume 2
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A handsome newcomer with secrets shows a yearning Amish woman a chance at happiness-but their love will need all their courage to keep. . .
Grace Blauch is skilled at midwifery-and crafting quilts that help others pass on messages of enduring family love. But a disfiguring birthmark keeps the young Amish woman from a husband and home of her own-until Mark King arrives from another community. His helpfulness and independent nature earn Grace's respect....
2) Lapvona
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An Instant New York Times Bestseller!
“Lapvona flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be . . . Through a mix of witchery, deception, murder, abuse, grand delusion, ludicrous conversations, and cringeworthy moments of bodily disgust, Moshfegh creates a world that you definitely don’t want to live in, but from which you can’t...
“Lapvona flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be . . . Through a mix of witchery, deception, murder, abuse, grand delusion, ludicrous conversations, and cringeworthy moments of bodily disgust, Moshfegh creates a world that you definitely don’t want to live in, but from which you can’t...
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In the United States, some 10% of people who wish to have children struggle with infertility. NOVA explores barriers to fertility, from the social to the biological, and the state of assisted reproductive technologies. Follow the journeys of people navigating challenges from structural inequalities and racism to falling sperm counts, egg freezing, and IVF.
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Inspired by the true story of a female physician from 15th-century China, 'Lady Tan's Circle of Women' is a captivating story that asks how might a remarkable woman break free of traditions, go on to treat women and girls from every level of society, and lead a life of such importance that many of her remedies are still used five centuries later? #diversity.
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Most babies arrive safely without complications, however some do have a more difficult journey into this world. At the Mater Mother’s Hospital there is an expert medical team that specialises in caring for high-risk pregnancies and some of the most delicate types of surgery. Parents from across the southern hemisphere travel here to be treated by the multi-disciplinary team which includes foetal surgeons, sonographers, neonatologists, nurses, and...
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Neva Bradley, a third-generation midwife, is determined to keep the details surrounding her own pregnancy - including the identity of the baby's father - hidden from her family and co-workers for as long as she can. But her mother, Grace, finds it impossible to let it rest. For Neva's grandmother, a retired midwife, Neva's situation reminds her of a secret of her own from 60 years ago--a secret that eerily mirrors her granddaughter's, and if revealed,...
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Hope River novels volume 3
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Midwife Clara Perry, dissatisfied with the poor state of her personal life, runs away to remote Seagull Island in Canada to reinvent herself and start again. She soon discovers however that however much you try to forget the past, it never truly stays buried.
11) Life, Unexpected
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Shot over 10 years in intimate, raw home footage by an Oscar-winning filmmaking couple, LIFE, UNEXPECTED. tells the story of bringing life into this world. Through a stillbirth, countless miscarriages, IVF, and beyond, this documentary offers an intimate look at the unforgiving and often unspoken roller coaster of infertility.
12) This Small
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Length of gestation: 25 weeks. This is the threshold of viability for premature children. When a baby is born before their due date, the joy of his or her parents is suspended. It is the beginning of a tormented path, made of long waits at the hospital, watching children engaged in a constant fight to survive. THIS SMALL explores the story of parents who walked this path.
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The pursuit of dignity for Guatemalan midwives. The documentary explores the challenges that the midwives face as they battle racism and a health establishment that fights to prevent them from providing services. The film shows the important role that these women provide to their communities and profiles their activism aimed at being accepted by the medical system.
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At home in Trinity volume 2
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"In small-town Trinity, Pennsylvania, 1831, Martha Cade tries to balance the demands of her calling as a midwife, the delicacy of private information she learns in that role, and the hopes and expectations she has for her daughter and for herself"--Provided by publisher.
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The face of birth gives us the big -picture on the importance of how, where and with whom we give birth. Through the diverse and beautiful stories of five women who choose to birth at home, it examines the issues of choice, safety, and empowerment, as well as many other academics, midwives and doctors. A 'must see' film for anyone interested in birth, The face of birth will encourage and inspire all who have been or are about to embark on the journey...
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Two men desire vivacious, wild-haired Cora Patton, a midwife in a colonial town. Cora has no time for frivolity since her father, Maryville's only doctor, died during a tornado, but it's high time she found a husband. Cora's standards are high. He must be a gentleman, not a troublemaker like Jim Sinclair, her childhood nemesis. Jim yearns to rescue the Sinclair farm from his gambling father and earn Cora's love. Robert Helston, a ruthless newspaper...
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"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...
19) Woman To Woman
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Woman to Woman is a story about natural childbirth as well as about the empowerment of women and their partners. And it is also a story about activism
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MOMS & MEDS: NAVIGATING PREGNANCY AND PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATION, is a documentary film that explores the options women face when they want to have children, but take medication for mental illness. The film focuses on the personal stories of the women. Other interviewees include doctors, advocates and family members who influence, and are affected by, these decisions.
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