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Vanishing Twins

Author : Leah Dieterich
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781593762919

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"[Dieterich's] writing is crisp and intelligent . . . She writes about her own reckoning with her sexuality and exploration of queer identity without becoming pat or coy, giving readers intimate access to her fears and conflicting emotions." --NPR For as long as she can remember, Leah has had the mysterious feeling that she’s been searching for a twin--that she should be part of an intimate pair. It begins with dance partners as she studies ballet growing up; continues with her attractions to girlfriends in college; and leads her, finally, to Eric, whom she moves across the country for and marries. But her steadfast, monogamous relationship leaves her with questions about her sexuality and her identity, so she and her husband decide to try an open marriage. How does a young couple make room for their individual desires, their evolving selfhoods, and their artistic ambitions while building a life together? Can they pursue other sexual partners, even live in separate cities, and keep their original passionate bond alive? Vanishing Twins looks for answers in psychology, science, pop culture, art, architecture, Greek mythology, dance, and language to create a lucid, suspenseful portrait of a woman testing the limits and fluidities of love.

The Vanishing Half

Author : Brit Bennett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525536970

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * NPR * PEOPLE * TIME MAGAZINE* VANITY FAIR * GLAMOUR 2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST “Bennett’s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it’s especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye.” —Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal “A story of absolute, universal timelessness …For any era, it's an accomplished, affecting novel. For this moment, it's piercing, subtly wending its way toward questions about who we are and who we want to be….” – Entertainment Weekly From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect? Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins. As with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.

My Twin Vanished: Did Yours?

Author : Brent H. Babcock
Publisher : Tate Pub & Enterprises Llc
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1606966375

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My Twin Vanished: Did Yours? by Brent H. Babcock Pdf

The deepest imprinting for the personality of a human develops in the womb. It is a little-known fact that one out of eight single births began as twins. Saddled with the loss of this ultimate relationship even before birth, tens of millions of Americans have gone in search of that relationship. In their searches, they become lost in dysfunctional cycles of addiction, abuse, sickness, mental illness, or suicide, without even knowing why. In "My Twin Vanished," Dr. Brent Babcock shows that these painful and dysfunctional patterns can be traced back to the phenomenon of the vanished twin. This life-altering book connects the dots to life's questions for those who have been seeking answers without relief. Doctors, nurses, clergy, and counselors will find new understanding and answers in "My Twin Vanished," as will all who unknowingly are surviving twins.

Twin and Higher-order Pregnancies

Author : Asma Khalil,Liesbeth Lewi,Enrico Lopriore
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030476526

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Twin and Higher-order Pregnancies by Asma Khalil,Liesbeth Lewi,Enrico Lopriore Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive update on the management of multiple pregnancy, which is becoming more common, and is associated with increased maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. Offering a practical guide and a wealth of videos, images and illustrations, the book will help clinicians to feel more confident when caring for women with multiple pregnancy. Its main objectives are: To increase the level of knowledge of healthcare professionals involved in the care of these women; To update their knowledge in keeping with the recommendations of the latest national and international guidelines; and To promote a multidisciplinary approach to the management of women with multiple pregnancy.

Vanishing Twins

Author : Leah Dieterich
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781593763060

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"[Dieterich's] writing is crisp and intelligent . . . She writes about her own reckoning with her sexuality and exploration of queer identity without becoming pat or coy, giving readers intimate access to her fears and conflicting emotions." --NPR For as long as she can remember, Leah has had the mysterious feeling that she’s been searching for a twin--that she should be part of an intimate pair. It begins with dance partners as she studies ballet growing up; continues with her attractions to girlfriends in college; and leads her, finally, to Eric, whom she moves across the country for and marries. But her steadfast, monogamous relationship leaves her with questions about her sexuality and her identity, so she and her husband decide to try an open marriage. How does a young couple make room for their individual desires, their evolving selfhoods, and their artistic ambitions while building a life together? Can they pursue other sexual partners, even live in separate cities, and keep their original passionate bond alive? Vanishing Twins looks for answers in psychology, science, pop culture, art, architecture, Greek mythology, dance, and language to create a lucid, suspenseful portrait of a woman testing the limits and fluidities of love.

Placental and Gestational Pathology with Online Resource

Author : Raymond W. Redline,Theonia K. Boyd,Drucilla J. Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781316632536

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Placental and Gestational Pathology with Online Resource by Raymond W. Redline,Theonia K. Boyd,Drucilla J. Roberts Pdf

A guide to identifying disease processes in the placenta affecting pregnancy outcome, with current diagnostic criteria and clinical consequences.

Pathology of the Placenta

Author : Steven H. Lewis,Eugene V. D. K. Perrin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Placenta
ISBN : UOM:39015045687681

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Pathology of the Placenta by Steven H. Lewis,Eugene V. D. K. Perrin Pdf

Here's the completely revised, updated and expanded 2nd Edition of this definitive reference on placental pathology. Presents reliable, step-by-step guidance on placental examination techniques, and also examines infection and multiple gestations. This comprehensive edition features a new chapter on ultrasound, which provides critical antenatal information not available in pathology texts, and also features a chapter detailing the latest information on molecular biology.

The Mothers

Author : Brit Bennett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399184536

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught.” –The New York Times Book Review "Fantastic… a book that feels alive on the page." –The Washington Post From the New York-Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half, the beloved novel about young love and a big secret in a small community. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season." It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance—and the subsequent cover-up—will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. Soon, Nadia, Luke, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver, and dogged by the constant, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt. In entrancing, lyrical prose, The Mothers asks whether a "what if" can be more powerful than an experience itself. If, as time passes, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves, to the communities that have parented us, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever.

Multiple Pregnancy

Author : L.G. Keith,E. Papiernik
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995-04-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0203017757

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Multiple Pregnancy by L.G. Keith,E. Papiernik Pdf

From the Foreword by John J. Sciarra, M.D., Ph.D., Thomas J. Watkins Professor and Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Past President of FIGO, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago: "This book is by far the most comprehensive and up-to-date source on multiple pregnancy. It discusses cutting-edge options and technologies, and co

Noninvasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT)

Author : Lieve Page-Christiaens,Hanns-Georg Klein
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780128141908

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Noninvasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) by Lieve Page-Christiaens,Hanns-Georg Klein Pdf

Since its introduction in 2012, cell-free (cf) DNA based Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) has been employed to test for fetal chromosome abnormalities, and gene mutations that lead to a variety of genetic conditions, by millions of pregnant women, in more than 90 countries worldwide. With Noninvasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT): Applied Genomics in Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis, Dr Lieve Page-Christiaens and Dr Hanns-Georg Klein have compiled the first authoritative volume on cfDNA NIPT methods and their clinical implementation. Provides a thorough, practical examination of the history of NIPT, NIPT laboratory techniques and bioinformatics, NIPT screening and diagnostics for a wide range of disorders and birth defects Presents leading, international experts who discuss the application of NIPT in early screening for common aneuploidies, fetal chromosome anomalies, autosomal trisomies, fetal blood group typing, and maternal constitutional and acquired copy number variants Includes full color imagery that enhances concept illustration, along with detailed descriptions of the benefits (and limitations) of NIPT Offers clinicians, researchers, genetic counselors and reproductive specialists of all kinds the required background information, methodologies and essential patient counseling techniques

Danforth's Obstetrics and Gynecology

Author : Ronald S. Gibbs
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 078176937X

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Danforth's Obstetrics and Gynecology by Ronald S. Gibbs Pdf

A core reference for residents and practitioners for more than 40 years, this volume has been thoroughly revised and reorganized to provide complete, authoritative coverage of the modern clinical practice of obstetrics and gynecology.

Womb Twin Survivors

Author : Althea Margaret Hayton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0955780829

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Womb Twin Survivors by Althea Margaret Hayton Pdf

This comprehensive study of womb twin survivors--the sole survivors of a twin or multiple conception--serves as an illustrated guide to the biology of twinning and multiple conceptions, while also describing the feelings of grief and loss felt by the sole survivor after the death of a twin during pregnancy or around birth.

Untwinned

Author : A. M. Hayton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0952565498

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When a twin dies during pregnancy, this experience can leave a vague but profound sense of loss in the mind of the survivor. In this book is reflected current, ground-breaking research into the death of a twin, both at birth and before, plus stories and poetry written by the survivors themselves. This extraordinary collection of twenty articles about the death of a twin from a variety of perspectives reveals the astonishing truth of how it can actually feel to be the survivor when your twin has died in the womb. Recent research has shown that as many as one in eight people are the sole survivors of a twin pregnancy, and many of them have no proof of ever having had a twin. Ultrasound scanning now reveals that many more tiny twins are lost in the womb than was ever thought possible. The editor is Althea Hayton, who is director of "wombtwin.com," an internet- based research project. She provides information, help and psychological support for the sole survivors of twin or multiple pregnancies. Michael J. Shea, Ph.D. of the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute says about this book; "This is a great addition to a psychological understanding of prenatal development and gives a comprehensive view from a wide variety of experts in the field. A must read for anyone interested in pre- and perinatal psychology, and especially anyone who thinks they may have had a twin." Some of these chapters will be of particular interest to pregnant women who have experienced "vanishing twin" syndrome. Therapists and psychologists who are studying the pre-birth origins of various psychological conditions such as depression, blocked grieving or suicidal thoughts will find the case studies in this book very enlightening. The personal accounts of the loss of a twin before birth are of interest to all, and raise some important issues about the nature of pre-born consciousness. It seems that we all carry some vague impressions of our life in the womb, and surviving twins have a particularly interesting story to tell.

Twin Mythconceptions

Author : Nancy L. Segal
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780128039953

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Twin Mythconceptions: False Beliefs, Fables, and Facts about Twins sheds new light on over 70 commonly held ideas and beliefs about the origins and development of identical and fraternal twins. Using the latest scientific findings from psychology, psychiatry, biology, and education, the book separates fact from fiction. Each idea about twins is described, followed by both a short answer about the truth, and then a longer, more detailed explanation. Coverage includes embryology of twins, twin types, intellectual growth, personality traits, sexual orientation of twins, marital relationships, epigenetic analyses, and more. Five appendices cover selected topics in greater depth, such as the frequency of different twin types and the varieties of polar body twin pairs. This book will inform and entertain behavioral and life science researchers, health professionals, twins, parents of twins, and anyone interested in the fascinating topic of twins. Identifies common misunderstandings about twins Provides scientific answers to questions about twins Encompasses the biology, psychology, genetics, and personality of twins Includes discussion of identical, fraternal same-sex, and fraternal opposite-sex twins Allows for quick answers to common questions and more detailed explanations

Having Twins and More

Author : Elizabeth Noble,Leo Sorger
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0618138730

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Having Twins and More by Elizabeth Noble,Leo Sorger Pdf

Considers the needs of prospective multiple-birth parents.