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Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
Threatened preterm labour is a term of labour that happens at least 3 or more weeks before your expected date of birth. This information will help you understand how your Home Care Nursing Team and your doctor are planning to keep you and your baby safe and healthy while you are at home.
This handout provides an overview of high blood pressure during pregnancy. This information will help you understand how your Home Care Nursing Team and your doctor are planning to keep you and your baby safe and healthy while you are at home.
This pamphlet answers the most frequently asked questions about when your water breaks early, also known as premature rupture of membranes or PROM.
In Simplified Chinese, provides helpful tips and exercises pregnant women can do when on bedrest.
This pamphlet provides information about ectopic pregnancy, including what it is, how do you know if you have an ectopic pregnancy, what tests you need, and what the treatment options are.
Finding out your unborn child has been diagnosed with a poor or fatal prenatal diagnosis is devastating news sure to reverberate through your family's life forever. The emotional aspects of such a pregnancy and the practical implications of an adverse diagnosis are difficult to navigate. The Prenat…
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An empowering approach to managing stress quickly and effectively during a high-risk pregnancy; .; Not enough women are told how profoundly stress impacts their pregnancy, especially if they are high-risk--but the truth is that stress, if left unmanaged, becomes a serious risk factor for pregnancy …
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This pamphlet provides information on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Pregnancy, including: What it is, signs and symptoms, treatments, and what happens after giving birth.
This pamphlet gives information on ASA and Heparin to prevent pregnancy loss due to APA (Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome).
For parents who have received a fetal diagnosis during pregnancy, and are deciding (or have decided) whether to interrupt the pregnancy. Supports grieving parents, and provides information on:; - The decision-making process,; - Taking control,; - The hospital experience,; - Couples healing together…
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Toby loves his big sister Clemmie. She always looks after him and he looks after her - even when her disability means she has to go to hospital again. But they still find ways to have fun together - and their story will help encourage children facing a similar situation. Toby and Clemmie first appe…
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For Bixby Alexander Tam (nicknamed Bat), life tends to be full of surprises - some of them good, some not so good. Today, though, is a good-surprise day. Bat's mom, a veterinarian, has brought home a baby skunk, which she needs to take care of until she can hand him over to a wild-animal shelter. B…
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We have created this booklet to highlight a number of key topics for women with SCI (spinal cord injury) and their families to consider during the perinatal period, defined as the time before conceiving (pre-conception), pregnancy, labour, delivery and postpartum (the first few days and weeks after…
Learn about safe exercises that are recommended when you are on reduced activity during pregnancy.
Kannon is a little boy with a form of epilepsy that sometimes gives him the wiggles, and when that happens, just like jello, his whole body jiggles. Kannon would very much like to go to school with everyone else his age, but he worries his condition might scare the other children away. After much t…
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This book provides the reader with a theoretical and practical understanding of two health care delivery models: the patient/child centred care and family-centred care. Both are fundamental to caring for children in healthcare organizations. The authors address their application in a variety of pae…
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This compassionate guide contains 100 practical ideas to help those grieving after a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy. The book teaches the principles of grief and mourning to practical, action-oriented tips for coping with the natural difficulties of a loss.
Beloved grief educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt compassionately explores the common feelings of shock, anger, guilt, and sadness that accompany a stillborn child, offering suggestions for expressing feelings, remembering the child, and healing as a family. Ideas to help each unique person?mother, father, g…
Beloved grief educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt compassionately explores the common feelings of shock, anger, guilt, and sadness that accompany a stillborn child, offering suggestions for expressing feelings, remembering the child, and healing as a family. Ideas to help each unique person?mother, father, g…
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A guide for parents and families to support their youth (12-24 years old) in the planning and preparation for adulthood and adult health care.
Écrit par une femme qui a eu une césarienne, puis un accouchement par voie vaginale, ce livre décrit le contexte entourant de nos jours l?accouchement. Il explique quels sont les avantages et les risques de la césarienne et de l?AVAC (accouchement vaginal après césarienne), que faire avec les émoti…
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Tube feeding at home is called home enteral nutrition (HEN). A disaster can directly affect you and your ability to give yourself tube feeds at home. This booklet teaches you how to be prepared for a disaster. Keep this booklet with your HEN Emergency Pack.
A guide to places and services in the neighborhood near BC Children's Hospital including:; Describes: amenities at the hospital and in the neighbourhood; parking on site; where to eat inside hospital; accommodation options and travel and transportation options.
This pamphlet provides information to parents about Synagis, a medication that helps a child's body fight off a serious respiratory syncytial virus, also called RSV.
This pamphlet provides general guidelines for healthy eating for women with diabetes during pregnancy.
This pamphlet provides general information about BC Women's diabetes in pregnancy service, gestational diabetes and related questions and answers, suggested physical activities, nutrition during pregnancy with diabetes and blood sugar testing instructions.
This pamphlet provides general information about BC Women's diabetes in pregnancy service, gestational diabetes and related questions and answers, suggested physical activities, nutrition during pregnancy with diabetes and blood sugar testing instructions.This pamphlet is in Chinese.
This pamphlet provides information for new parents about the flu, precautions they can take to protect their baby from the flu virus, and what will happen if you or your baby gets the flu while staying in the hospital.
In Punjabi, this pamphlet provides information to parents about Synagis, a medication that helps a child's body fight off a serious respiratory syncytial virus, also called RSV.
In Traditional Chinese, this pamphlet provides information to parents about Synagis, a medication that helps a child's body fight off a serious respiratory syncytial virus, also called RSV.
Explains the timing, procedure and care for alveolar cleft bone graft, a surgery to repair a cleft in a gum. Provides information for parents and guardians with children undergoing the surgery.
Parents find ways to bond with their premature babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
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Découvrez les conseils pratiques de deux professionnelles de la maternité, qui vous accompagnent et partagent leur savoir et leur expérience. Elles vous confient leurs recettes pour bien vous nourrir et prendre soin de votre corps, leurs exercices de yoga et de respiration pour mieux vivre votre ac…
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Grâce aux progrès de la science, nous savons maintenant que le mouvement fait partie intégrante de la santé de la future maman et de son bébé. Or, puisque de grands changements s'opèrent dans le corps de la femme enceinte, la majorité des principes d'entraînement traditionnels ne s'applique plus à …
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This book provides a model of care for traumatized children, based on theory and practice experience pioneered at the Lighthouse Foundation, Australia. The authors explain the impact of trauma on child development, drawing on psychodynamic, attachment and neurobiological trauma theories.
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Providing authoritative and scientific information about Tourette syndrome, "A Family's Guide to Tourette Syndrome" speaks to patients, families, care providers, academic institutions, and medical centers in easy-to-understand language about this neurodevelopmental disorder that affects children, a…
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"Since its first publication in 1983, Surviving Schizophrenia has become the standard reference book on the disease and has helped thousands of patients, their families, and mental health professionals.; "In clear language, this much-praised and important book describes the nature, causes, symptoms…
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Provides information for parents about respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) including symptoms and how to protect children against RSV.
The popular, research-based Prevent-Teach-Reinforce (PTR) model is used in schools and childcare settings to address challenging behaviours in children with and without disabilties. Now, with the Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Families (PTR-F) model in this accessible guidebook, you can use this prove…
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Guided meditations for pregnancy are accompanied by soothing flute music to promote relaxation, healing, inner strength, and opening the heart. Suitable for all stages of pregnancy and the newborn period.; *; Contents:; - Guided Body Scan helps to deeply relax the whole body and awaken healing ener…
A practical and informative guide for parents who discover their unborn child has a heart problem. Sections include: answers to commonly asked questions; choices and decisions; talking about feelings; building your support team; pregnancy-related questions.
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Ce livre explique en détail tout le processus de la grossesse et de l'accouchement, du début du travail à l'arrivée du bébé. Il traite des changements émotionnels et physiques, des grands préparatifs, de la transformation dans le couple, du suivi de grossesse, du travail de l'accouchement et des le…
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La grossesse est un moment fabuleux de la vie de chaque femme, mais elle entraîne également beaucoup de changements et soulève de nombreuses interrogations. Comprenant les toutes dernières mises à jour de la législation québécoise en matière de maternité, ce livre magnifiquement illustré est le plu…
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Written in Punjabi, this pamphlet provides information for parents about respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) including symptoms and how to protect children against RSV.
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains why growth related disorders happen, tests that your health care team may perform, and the importance of nutrition.
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This guide discusses how baby blues and depression may affect women's physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being and what to do if that occurs.; Part 1 - Basic Aboriginal Teachings; Part 2 - Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the first year of being a parent; Part 3 - Feelings during Pregnancy an…
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Written in Traditional Chinese, this pamphlet provides information for parents about respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) including symptoms and how to protect children against RSV.
This pamphlet provides information about a Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).