Pregnancy after a Loss or Your Water Workout

Pregnancy after a Loss: A Guide to Pregnancy after a Miscarriage, Stillbirth or Infant Death

Author: Carol Cirulli Lanham

"A 'must-have' guide for the devastated couple dealing with the many questions and fears that occur with a subsequent pregnancy." --Candace Hurley, Executive Director/Founder, Sidelines National Support Network

For a woman who has experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death of an infant, conceiving another child can be fraught with mixed emotions. This guide, filled with up-to-date medical information and written by a woman who herself experienced a successful pregnancy after the loss of her first baby, can help women cope with their anxiety. It offers guidance for women asking such questions as: * Why did it happen--and how can I make sure it doesn't happen again? * Will my next pregnancy be considered high-risk? * How long should I wait before getting pregnant again? * What can I expect at prenatal exams? * Will I ever be able to love another baby as much as I love the one I lost?

Pregnancy after a loss can be a time of great emotional upheaval--but also, a time of healing and hope. With this sensible, sensitive guide, women can put their minds at ease--and learn to look forward to the future as they make peace with the past.

"Compassionate and comprehensive." --Perry-Lynn Moffitt, coauthor of A Silent Sorrow: Pregnancy Loss

* Contains up-to-the-minute medical advice and information
* Unlike other books about pregnancy loss that focus solely on the grieving process, Pregnancy After a Loss helps women to prepare, both psychologically and physically, for a new pregnancy

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Your Water Workout: No-Impact Aerobic and Strength Training from Yoga, Pilates, Tai Chi, and More

Author: Jane Katz

Take your workout to the water!

Possibly the world’s perfect exercise, water workouts provide a highly-effective, low-impact way to burn calories, build muscle, improve flexibility, and have some fun.
International Swimming Hall of Fame board member and world masters champion Jane Katz uses a holistic approach to lead you to total body fitness, offering soothing and strengthening programs of exercises drawn from yoga, Pilates, tai chi, and popular land sports like skiing and golf. There are also high-intensity challenges and instructions for deep-water running and cross-training for athletes. Each exercise is accompanied by a simple drawing and step-by-step instructions for doing the move correctly. Programs for twenty-, thirty- and forty-five-minute workouts, including breathing exercises, warm ups and cool downs, are laid out to make it easy to dive right in. Individual exercises can also be combined to make a complete workout that is right for you.
Dr. Katz uses toys and accessories, from old-fashioned kickboards to flashy fins, to make every workout seem like play. Full of suggestions to keep your program exciting and fresh, Aqua Fit is a complete guide to working out in the water for lifelong fitness.

Author Biography:

Library Journal

A world-class competitive, long distance, and Olympic synchronized swimmer, Katz began writing instructional books following her rehabilitation from a car accident in 1979. In those guides, she covered a wide range of exercise modalities to perform in the pool, including prenatal aquatics. Here taking a holistic approach based on yoga, Pilates, and tai chi movements, she emphasizes stretching and proper breathing for both strength and relaxation. Black-and-white drawings provide step-by-step instructions on performing each move correctly. Katz also outlines sport-specific and more vigorous deep-water routines like treading water, water walking, and jogging and sets aside a chapter to water activities for children. Although Katz's book is well written and thorough, Mimi Rodriguez Adami's Aqua Fitness: The Low-Impact Total Body Fitness Workout covers the same material for the same price, with the bonus of striking color photographs of swimmers demonstrating the exercises. It also includes an innovative beach workout, a glossary of terms, and a useful list of addresses. Either title will provide general collections with a comprehensive and holistic overview of aquatic training, but Aqua Fitness would suffice for those with limited budgets.-Deborah Anne Broocker, Georgia Perimeter Coll., Dunwoody Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.