Random House New Releases - Medical - Nursing - Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health

Arms Wide Open by Patricia Harman

2012-03-20T00:30:00-05:00

Arms Wide Open A Midwife's Journey
Written by Patricia Harman

Trade Paperback, 304 pages | Beacon Press | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Medical - Nursing - Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health; Biography & Autobiography - Medical | $16.00 | 978-0-8070-0171-4 (0-8070-0171-6)

In this prequel to the highly praised The Blue Cotton Gown, Patricia Harman reaches back to her youthful experiments in living a fully sustainable and natural life in the 1960s and ’70s in rural Minnesota and on a commune in Ohio, forming alliances with the eco-minded and antiwar counterculture. From those riveting days as a self-taught midwife, delivering babies in cabins and on farms, sometimes in harrowing circumstances, Patsy takes us into the present day, where she faces the challenges of running a women’s health clinic with her husband, mothering adult sons, and holding true to her principles and passions in the twenty-first century.

Pocket Guide to Midwifery Care by Aviva Jill Romm, M.D.

2011-08-17T00:30:00-05:00

Pocket Guide to Midwifery Care
Written by Aviva Jill Romm, M.D.

eBook, 112 pages | Crossing Press | Health & Fitness - Alternative Therapies; Medical - Nursing - Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health; Health & Fitness - Pregnancy & Childbirth | $5.99 | 978-0-307-80466-2 (0-307-80466-6)

If you are pregnant, plan to be pregnant, or are curious about alternatives to medical childbirth, the POCKET GUIDE TO MIDWIFERY will provide you with complete information about:

Safety and effectiveness of midwifery care.

The different types of midwives.

How to choose a midwife.

The care midwives give.

Midwifery and the law.

National organizations.

Before Your Pregnancy by Mary D'Alton

2011-05-24T00:30:00-05:00

Before Your Pregnancy A 90-Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception
Written by Amy Ogle and Lisa Mazzullo
Foreword by Mary D'Alton

Trade Paperback, 608 pages | Ballantine Books | Health & Fitness - Pregnancy & Childbirth; Medical - Nursing - Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health; Health & Fitness - Women's Health | $20.00 | 978-0-345-51841-5 (0-345-51841-1)

Now completely revised and updated, the classic guide that helps mothers- and fathers-to-be conceive more easily and boost the odds of a healthy pregnancy

Covering preconception and interconception (between-pregnancy) well-being for women and men, Amy Ogle and Lisa Mazzullo draw on new research from their complementary fields of expertise and reveal how good preconception health can lower the risk of pregnancy complications and improve lifelong health. Why a ninety-day guide? It takes that long for sperm to mature, and at least that much time for the prospective mother to ensure that her body becomes pregnancy-ready. In a warm, intelligent style, the authors address up-to-date topics such as age, heredity, vaccinations, supplements, and weight. In easily accessible chapters, this guide covers such topics as

• Nutrition: meal makeovers plus new facts (and fiction) about fish, omega-3s, vitamins, and herbs
• Personal readiness: how to assess emotional, financial, and physical readiness, including a preconception-friendly exercise program, plus advice for avid athletes
• Becoming an informed patient: choosing a doctor, insurance coverage, baby-friendly medications, and the latest genetic screening guidelines
• Women’s health: expanded coverage of gynecologic and medical conditions affecting fertility and pregnancy (including bariatric surgery and physical disabilities), and steps to create a welcoming womb by optimizing immune health
• Environment: a roundup of environmental exposures and travel tips
• Men’s health: practical lifestyle advice for men to help maximize the number and health of sperm
• Conception: clear signs that predict when to “start trying,” and the truth behind common myths
• Infertility: reassuring options for reproductive assistance
• Interconception health: the best plan for pregnancy recovery, before trying for another
• Resources: questionnaires for your preconception medical visit, and charts to track fertility signs

Before Your Pregnancy by Mary D'Alton

2011-05-24T00:30:00-05:00

Before Your Pregnancy A 90-Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception
Written by Amy Ogle and Lisa Mazzullo
Foreword by Mary D'Alton

eBook, 448 pages | Ballantine Books | Health & Fitness - Pregnancy & Childbirth; Medical - Nursing - Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health; Health & Fitness - Women's Health | $15.99 | 978-0-345-51842-2 (0-345-51842-X)

Arms Wide Open by Patricia Harman

2011-04-12T00:30:00-05:00

Arms Wide Open A Midwife's Journey
Written by Patricia Harman

Hardcover, 324 pages | Beacon Press | Biography & Autobiography - Medical; Health & Fitness - Women's Health; Medical - Nursing - Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health | $24.95 | 978-0-8070-0138-7 (0-8070-0138-4)

A midwife’s memoir of living free and naturally against all odds

In her first, highly praised memoir, The Blue Cotton Gown, Patricia Harman recounted the stories that patients brought into her exam room, and her own story of struggling to help women as a nurse-midwife. In Arms Wide Open, a prequel to that acclaimed book, Patsy tells the story of growing up during one of the most turbulent times in America and becoming an idealistic home-birth midwife.

Drawing heavily on her journals, Patsy reaches back to tell us how she first learned to deliver babies, and digs even deeper down to tell us of her youthful experiments in living a fully sustainable and natural life. In the 1960s and ’70s, she spent over a decade with her first partner living in rural areas in Minnesota and Ohio before eventually purchasing a farm with Tom Harman in West Virginia.

Patsy recounts the hardships and the freedom of living in the wilds of Minnesota in a log cabin she and her lover built with their own hands, the only running water hauled from nearby streams. She describes long treks in the snow with her infant son strapped to her chest, setting up beehives for honey, and giving chase to a thieving bear. Eventually, yearning for more connection, Patsy moves into communal life, forming alliances with the eco-minded and antiwar counterculture that was both loved and reviled in those days.

As a young mother on the commune, Patsy offers her personal experience and assistance to other women who, like her, wish to have safe, natural births. In time, she becomes a self-taught midwife, delivering babies in cabins and on farms, sometimes in harrowing circumstances. But her passion for the work drives her to want to help more, to do more. And so she begins the professional training that will fully accredit her to assist in childbirth. In a final section, Patsy takes us into the present day, facing the challenges of running a women’s health clinic with her husband, mothering adult sons, and holding true to their principles and passions in the twenty-first century

More than a personal memoir, Arms Wide Open paints a portrait of a generation’s desperate struggle to realize their ideals as they battled against the elements and against the conservative society that labeled them “hippies” and belittled their ecological and pacifist beliefs. Her memoir is a beautiful recollection of the convictions of the baby boom generation, a riveting account of surviving in the wild, and a triumphant story of living responsibly in our over-consuming society.

Arms Wide Open by Patricia Harman

2011-04-12T00:30:00-05:00

Arms Wide Open A Midwife's Journey
Written by Patricia Harman

eBook | Beacon Press | Biography & Autobiography - Medical; Health & Fitness - Women's Health; Medical - Nursing - Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health | $24.95 | 978-0-8070-0139-4 (0-8070-0139-2)

A midwife’s memoir of living free and naturally against all odds

In her first, highly praised memoir, Patricia Harman told us the stories patients brought into her exam room, and her own story of struggling to help women as a nurse-midwife in medical practice with her husband, an OB/GYN, in Appalachia. In this new book, Patsy reaches back to tell us how she first learned to deliver babies, and digs even deeper down to tell us of her youthful experiments with living a fully sustainable and natural life.

Drawing heavily on her journals, Arms Wide Open goes back to a time of counter-culture idealism that the boomer generation remembers well. Patsy opens with stories of living in the wilds of Minnesota in a log cabin she and her lover build with their own hands, the only running water being the nearby streams. They set up beehives and give chase to a bear competing for the honey. Patsy gives birth and learns to help her friends deliver as naturally as possible.

Weary of the cold and isolation, Patsy moves to a commune in West Virginia, where she becomes a self-taught midwife delivering babies in cabins and homes. Her stories sparkle with drama and intensity, but she wants to help more women than healthy hippie homesteaders. After a ten-year sojourn for professional training, Patsy and her husband, Tom, return to Appalachia, as a nurse-midwife and physician, where they set up a women's-health practice. They deliver babies together, this time in hospitals; care for a wide variety of gyn patients; and live in a lakeside contemporary home--but their hearts are still firmly implanted in nature. The obstetrical climate is changing. The Harmans' family is changing. The earth is changing, but Patsy's arms remain wide open to life and all it offers.

Her memoir of living free and sustainably against all odds will be especially embraced by anyone who lived through the Vietnam War and commune era, and all those involved in the back-to-nature and natural-childbirth movements.

The Blue Cotton Gown by Patricia Harman

2009-10-01T00:30:00-05:00

The Blue Cotton Gown A Midwife's Memoir
Written by Patricia Harman

Trade Paperback, 296 pages | Beacon Press | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Medical - Nursing - Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health; Social Science - Women's Studies | $16.00 | 978-0-8070-7291-2 (0-8070-7291-5)

A 2008 Indie Next Pick

Despite nurse-midwife Patsy Harman’s own financial and personal medical trials, including her private battle with uterine cancer, she devotes herself to her patients’ well-being in all aspects of their lives. They, in turn, tell her intimate stories both heartbreaking and uplifting.

The Blue Cotton Gown by Patricia Harman

2008-10-01T00:30:00-05:00

The Blue Cotton Gown A Midwife's Memoir
Written by Patricia Harman

Hardcover, 296 pages | Beacon Press | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Medical - Nursing - Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health; Social Science - Women's Studies | $24.95 | 978-0-8070-7289-9 (0-8070-7289-3)

Heather is pale and thin, seventeen and pregnant with twins when Patricia Harman begins to care for her. Over the course of the next five seasons Patsy will see Heather through the loss of both babies and their father. She will also care for her longtime patient Nila, pregnant for the eighth time and trying to make a new life without her abusive husband. And Patsy will try to find some comfort to offer Holly, whose teenage daughter struggles with bulimia. She will help Rebba learn to find pleasure in her body and help Kaz transition into a new body. She will do noisy battle with the IRS in the very few moments she has to spare, and wage her own private battle with uterine cancer.

Patricia Harman, a nurse-midwife, manages a women's health clinic with her husband, Tom, an ob-gyn, in West Virginia-a practice where patients open their hearts, where they find care and sometimes refuge. Patsy's memoir juxtaposes the tales of these women with her own story of keeping a small medical practice solvent and coping with personal challenges. Her patients range from Appalachian mothers who haven't had the opportunity to attend secondary school to Ph.D.'s on cell phones. They come to Patsy's small, windowless exam room and sit covered only by blue cotton gowns, and their infinitely varied stories are in equal parts heartbreaking and uplifting. The nurse-midwife tells of their lives over the course of a year and a quarter, a time when her outwardly successful practice is in deep financial trouble, when she is coping with malpractice threats, confronting her own serious medical problems, and fearing that her thirty-year marriage may be on the verge of collapse. In the words of Jacqueline Mitchard, this memoir, "utterly true and lyrical as any novel . . . should be a little classic."

The Blue Cotton Gown by Patricia Harman

2008-10-01T00:30:00-05:00

The Blue Cotton Gown A Midwife's Memoir
Written by Patricia Harman

eBook | Beacon Press | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Medical - Nursing - Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health; Social Science - Women's Studies | $16.00 | 978-0-8070-9684-0 (0-8070-9684-9)

The Woman in the Body by Emily Martin

2001-08-01T00:30:00-05:00

The Woman in the Body A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction
Written by Emily Martin

Trade Paperback, 312 pages | Beacon Press | Social Science - Women's Studies; Social Science - Sociology - Marriage & Family; Medical - Nursing - Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health | $26.00 | 978-0-8070-4645-6 (0-8070-4645-0)

A bold reappraisal of science and society, The Woman in the Body explores the different ways that women's reproduction is seen in American culture. Contrasting the views of medical science with those of ordinary women from diverse social and economic backgrounds, anthropologist Emily Martin presents unique fieldwork on American culture and uncovers the metaphors of economy and alienation that pervade women's imaging of themselves and their bodies. A new preface examines some of the latest medical ideas about women's reproductive cycles.

Pocket Guide to Midwifery Care by Aviva Jill Romm, M.D.

1998-03-01T00:30:00-05:00

Pocket Guide to Midwifery Care
Written by Aviva Jill Romm, M.D.

Trade Paperback, 112 pages | Crossing Press | Health & Fitness - Alternative Therapies; Medical - Nursing - Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health; Health & Fitness - Pregnancy & Childbirth | $6.95 | 978-0-89594-855-7 (0-89594-855-9)

If you are pregnant, plan to be pregnant, or are curious about alternatives to medical childbirth, the POCKET GUIDE TO MIDWIFERY will provide you with complete information about:

Safety and effectiveness of midwifery care.

The different types of midwives.

How to choose a midwife.

The care midwives give.

Midwifery and the law.

National organizations.

Random House New Releases - Medical - Nursing - Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health

Arms Wide Open by Patricia Harman

Arms Wide Open A Midwife's JourneyWritten by Patricia Harman

Pocket Guide to Midwifery Care by Aviva Jill Romm, M.D.

Pocket Guide to Midwifery Care Written by Aviva Jill Romm, M.D.

Before Your Pregnancy by Mary D'Alton

Before Your Pregnancy A 90-Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy ConceptionWritten by Amy Ogle and Lisa Mazzullo Foreword by Mary D'Alton

Before Your Pregnancy by Mary D'Alton

Before Your Pregnancy A 90-Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy ConceptionWritten by Amy Ogle and Lisa Mazzullo Foreword by Mary D'Alton

Arms Wide Open by Patricia Harman

Arms Wide Open A Midwife's JourneyWritten by Patricia Harman

Arms Wide Open by Patricia Harman

Arms Wide Open A Midwife's JourneyWritten by Patricia Harman

The Blue Cotton Gown by Patricia Harman

The Blue Cotton Gown A Midwife's MemoirWritten by Patricia Harman

The Blue Cotton Gown by Patricia Harman

The Blue Cotton Gown A Midwife's MemoirWritten by Patricia Harman

The Blue Cotton Gown by Patricia Harman

The Blue Cotton Gown A Midwife's MemoirWritten by Patricia Harman

The Woman in the Body by Emily Martin

The Woman in the Body A Cultural Analysis of ReproductionWritten by Emily Martin

Pocket Guide to Midwifery Care by Aviva Jill Romm, M.D.

Pocket Guide to Midwifery Care Written by Aviva Jill Romm, M.D.

Arms Wide Open A Midwife's Journey
Written by Patricia Harman

Pocket Guide to Midwifery Care
Written by Aviva Jill Romm, M.D.

Before Your Pregnancy A 90-Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception
Written by Amy Ogle and Lisa Mazzullo
Foreword by Mary D'Alton

Before Your Pregnancy A 90-Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception
Written by Amy Ogle and Lisa Mazzullo
Foreword by Mary D'Alton

Arms Wide Open A Midwife's Journey
Written by Patricia Harman

Arms Wide Open A Midwife's Journey
Written by Patricia Harman

The Blue Cotton Gown A Midwife's Memoir
Written by Patricia Harman

The Blue Cotton Gown A Midwife's Memoir
Written by Patricia Harman

The Blue Cotton Gown A Midwife's Memoir
Written by Patricia Harman

The Woman in the Body A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction
Written by Emily Martin

Pocket Guide to Midwifery Care
Written by Aviva Jill Romm, M.D.