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A book full of practical information on choosing the best type of birth experience for you and your baby and what to do in the final 8 weeks to prepare. Full of humour and encouraging birth stories, every mother-to-be will find it invaluable.• Emma Mahony, humorous Times columnist whose Double Trouble stories about her two young twins charmed the nation, now gives you a first book on birth and the 8-week run-up to it. Taking a practical but lighthearted approach, she helps every new mother-to-be feel in control and ready for the big day.• With positive stories from women who insisted on the right birth for them, as well as advice from experts in the field of childbirth, such as midwives, obstetricians and advocates of natural and water births.Includes:• Why a good birth experience is a great objective• How and why it’s best to avoid a ‘medicalised’ birth• Everything you need to know about Caesarians• What every woman is entitled to before labour• How to write a birth plan and why it is useful• Illustrated throughout with lighthearted cartoons from The Times’ front page cartoonist.

Self Massage is simple and effective self-care programme which can easily be incorporated into your daily routine.Just 15 minutes a day will prepare your body and mind for any stresses and strains ahead. This book will show you how to:Increase vitality• Relieve tiredness• Aid relaxation• Build up good health• Relieve common ailments• Ease neck and back painFully illustrated with photos and line drawings – this is a clear step-by-step guide to self-massage.

Leon Chaitow examines the main causes of stress and its effects on health, and provides check-lists for assessing your own levels of stress.Meditation, visualisation and and breathing techniques, as well as sound advice on nutrition and exercise, are included in this natural relaxation-system which will enable you to cope more easily with stress and its related symptoms such as headaches, high blood pressure, depression, irritability and asthma.

Women over the age of 40, as they move towards menopause, usually experience an increasing waistline and multiplying fat cells…no matter how much they exercise.Hormonal changes start to affect your weight when your 30 billion fat cells detect a slightly lower oestrogen reading and come to your aid to produce oestrogen for you. And the fat cells in your waist grow the largest because they are better equipped to produce oestrogen than those in your bottom, hips and thighs.Debra Waterhouse provides her usual sound strategies to cope but also explains the positive side: that the more oestrogen you produce the fewer mood swings and hot flushes, less intense PMS, improved sleep, and a reduced risk of osteoporosis you will experience. And she warns: the harder you try to lose weight by dieting the more powerful your menopausal fat cells become .Positive actions Waterhouse proposes include:• Encouraging a positive attitude for your change of life, embracing your body changes• Following her tailored exercise programme which includes building bone density and gaining muscle• How much to eat, when and how often. What to eat, including plant oestrogens. And how to start trusting your body’s messages and cravings.

IVF: An Emotional Companion is an invaluable, personal support, based on women's first hand experiences, for anyone struggling to conceive.Sharing the real life stories of 20 women who have worked their way through fertility and conception problems, this book is a lifeline for women and couples everywhere wanting to have a baby: an honest, inspirational and comforting read promising to help get you through the roller coaster that is fertility treatment.According to official figures, one in six couples have problems conceiving and more women than ever before are now considering in vitro fertilisation. It's not just physically taxing and expensive, but the emotional strain can at times be unbearable. Having to make lots of emotionally-charged decisions at every turn is tough: Should I push my GP to refer me for investigations? Are we ready for IVF? Should we try natural methods first? What shall we do now the treatment has failed?To help you work through these decisions, IVF: An Emotional Companion explains how others in similar situations have tackled these challenges and come through.

James Wong is back, putting his ethnobotanical expertise to use once again, with over 100 new, natural, cheap and easy remedies, showing you and those around you how to have a fantastically healthy year.Whether you're fed up with your hormones, worried about your baby's nappy rash, your partner is prone to a sore-throat, or leg-waxing is proving just too expensive to maintain, Grow Your Own Drugs: A Year With James Wong offers over 100 great new remedies to soothe all manner of common conditions and beauty problems – whenever they might flare up.James shows how easy it to have access to the right ingredients whatever the weather, with his easy-to follow seasonal focus – whether you've got a window box, a roof terrace, a country garden (or a computer to order the goods online…). His seasonal planner takes you right through from Spring to Winter, making sure you know what to plant when, the best time to harvest and how to create your own mini-apothecary (or store-cupboard) at home.Packed with James's personal top tips and easy solutions for both growing and making remedies, this is your must-have companion to help ward off any ailments and complaints which might crop up throughout the year, the natural, James Wong way.FEATURES:• Over 100 new remedies• New seasonal guide – how to make sure you have all the ingredients you need for a healthy body and mind all year round• New non-gardener's guide: if you're not green-fingered or don't have a garden, James reveals how to identify plants and how to source good quality ingredients online• More about James’s personal inspirations: how he came to a career in ethnobotany, how he goes about living his own GYOD year and why a seasonal approach is important and easy to adopt• James's top tips and new gift flashes (perfect for cheap, thoughtful presents)• New case studies: how people who've tried and tested the remedies have got on• New HOME section: brilliant natural and cheap remedies for home life. Contains pet flea powder, horsetail metal polish, wood polish, carpet deodoriser

Sugar is addictive, toxic and everywhere. Find out how your sweet tooth might be nibbling you to death in this straight-talking exposé.

This one-stop practical guide will show you how to maximise your chances of having a baby and prepare week-by-week during your pregnancy for a relaxed and confident birth. Two reliable and accessible titles, complete with colour photos and expert advice throughout, combined into one ebook.Need to Know Fertility and Conception answers all the questions you want to know the answers to, it also explains when you're most fertile and how often to have sex; what factors can prevent or reduce fertilization and conception; how to enhance your fertility; how to get the most out of your GP; how to overcome stress and other emotional blocks to pregnancy; the different fertility treatments and contains sources of information, suggestions for further reading, support groups and websites.Need to Know Pregnancy gives a complete overview of baby development during pregnancy through to birth. Its combination of conventional mainstream and complementary medical info reflects the way most pregnant women approach their care today. There’s also plenty of information for the father-to-be. Contents includes: week by week overview; what to expect at appointments; eating well; exercising and relaxing; labour and birth; A-Z of common problems.

Bring the healing art of Reiki into your everyday life wherever you are and treat yourself and others in just a few minutes. Whether you are in a busy office, on a long-haul flight or simply trying to relax you can use your hands to restore energy, promote sleep and alleviate pain, stress and worry.• 15-minute Reiki treatments for extensive range of health conditions and personal issues.• Both authors are highly experienced Usui Reiki Masters and life coaches, and run their own popular and successful Reiki school with courses up and down the country.Summary of contentsPart 1 All About Reiki.Explanation & history of Reiki, hand positions for self-treatment & treating others.Part 2 Healing with Reiki – wide range of 15-minute treatmentsA–Z of how to treat everyday complaints, e.g. sore throats, headaches, flu, PMS, panic attacks, RSI, toothacheA–Z of how to treat and support chronic conditions, e.g. asthma, ME, high cholesterol, HIV, cancer, IBSReiki for first aid (burns, cuts, bruises etc) and travel (jet-lag, DVT, Sars-like viruses)Part 3 Reiki to Transform your life15-minute Reiki exercises to nurture your spiritual well-being, raise self-esteem, restore your energy, harness your inner power, clear the past, forgive others and transform your life.Parts 4 and 5.Q&A section, hypnotherapy and Reiki, finding a teacher, resources.A very practical and comprehensive book that is easy to follow and easy to dip into. Ideal for all levels.

The diet that will help you lose up to two inches around your waist in just 2 weeks, devised by the authors of million-copy bestseller ‘YOU: The Owner's Manual’, Drs Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz, plus the UK’s biggest-selling calorie counter, now available for the first time in a single volume to help you shift those Christmas pounds!‘YOU on a Diet’ is not another faddy crash-diet weight loss plan: you will lose weight – and a lot of it – but you will also gain the knowledge, insight and power to keep off the pounds you lose. Knowledge is the most powerful motivator when it comes to making the right food choices: know the ‘why’ and you'll successfully handle the ‘how’.With over 700,000 copies sold, Collins Gem Calorie Counter is the UK’s top-selling calorie counter. The perfect companion when you’re following a calorie-controlled diet. This improved edition takes in new areas: Kids’ food, Fast Food and Family Favourites.