This series gives teens the straight story on the entire experience - from pregnancy and birth to parenting and childcare. Direct, honest, and encouraging, this three volume set takes a real-world look at how teens can successfully meet the challenges of being young parents.*Easy to use - the three volumes are organized for the way you teach.
*Solution-oriented - advice for teen parenting and staying in school
*3D animation - illustrates medical procedures, stages of labor, and cesarean surgery
*Encouraging - promotes healthier and safer pregnancies, births, and postpartum periods
Volume 1: PREGNANCY
Teaches lifestyle changes that encourage a healthy, full-term pregnancy. Topics include:
*Prenatal Check-Ups and Nutrition - finding out you’re pregnant, prenatal visits, dental health, nutrition, weight gain, pregnancy warning signs
*Protect Your Baby - alcohol, tobacco, drugs, caffeine, medication, and more
*Physical and Emotional Changes - prenatal exercise, importance of sleep, signs of premature labor, emotional changes, relationship abuse
*Getting Support - friends and family, staying in school, alternative education options
Volume 2: LABOR AND BIRTH
Empowers teens by showing them the choices they have for labor and delivery. Topics include:
*Anatomy and Birth Process - fetal position, signs and stages of labor, labor support, positions for labor, natural labor techniques
*Medical Procedures - induction, analgesics, epidural, amniotomy, Pitocin, Cesarean birth
*Newborns - newborn appearance, skin-to-skin contact, rooming in, colostrum, lactation support
Volume 3: POSTPARTUM
Helps young parents prepare for the challenges and joys of providing for a newborn. Topics include:
*Physical Recovery and Postpartum Emotions - the healing process, signs of infection, nutrition, rest, exercise, baby blues, signs of postpartum depression
*Baby Care and Behaviors - well-baby visits, feeding baby, sleeping, crying, bathing and diapering, when to call the doctor, SIDS, second-hand smoke, abusive head trauma (Shaken Baby Syndrome), newborn senses
*Relationships and Parenting - establishing paternity, co-parenting, birth control, positive relationships, living situations, friend and family support, finishing school, and childcare options
*Also available in Spanish