Women's Health Books

I had a molar pregnancy in 2007, and found very little information online or through my doctors. They were helpful and supportive, but I wasn't satisfied with the information I was getting. Finally, I bought this book, and I'm so glad I did!

Only the first 35 pages of the book apply to me -- but it was still worth it! The rest of the book is dedicated to dealing with the cancerous stages of this condition. But the first portion of the book which describes very clearly with charts and diagrams and readable language about the biology of molar pregnancy was very useful, and the only material I could find.

I wish more had been written in the book about molar pregnancy. I wish there were a book about it, with other womens' stories, with more information about the blood tests and the recovery time, and about pregnancy after a molar pregnancy. But until that book is written, I will be glad to have this book.

When I had my molar pregnancy in 2001, there was little information available, either on the Internet or in bookstores, that I could understand and relate to. My doctors refused to go into detail about my condition or prognosis. I started MyMolarPregnancy.com to provide a place where other women with molar pregnancy or choriocarcinoma experiencing the same kind confusion, fear, and grief could find information, support, and personal stories that they could relate to. In Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia, authors Tara Johnson and Meredith Schwartz have created a comprehensive text with the same goals. They provide detailed information about the genetic and environmental factors involved in GTN, as well as the various types of GTN and their prognoses, in simple language with helpful illustrations. They offer support to women undergoing treatment by explaining the types of treatment, particularly chemotherapy, and the potential side effects. They offer practical advice for choosing a doctor and being actively involved in your personal care. Finally, they offer personal experiences, specifically Tara Johnson's own choriocarcinoma and subsequent hysterectomy and chemotherapy, but extending beyond her individual experience to include the reactions and feelings of her husband, family, and friends and anecdotes from other women with GTN.

In my experience, women with GTN are often kept uninformed by their caregivers, yet they are hungry for information and understanding. Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia is a long overdue and much-needed source of both. It is an essential primer for women dealing with this rare and frightening diagnosis.

This book is directed to pregnant women; however, the contents
may be utilized in connection with general health maintenance
years after a successful pregnancy. It describes nutrition,
bone health, a balanced diet, protein, veggies and a variety
of important health strategies. The section on exercise and
physical therapy is very instructive. The back-roll is depicted
for maintaining back health through continuous stretching
exercises. There is a section depicting the use of light weight training and special exercises designed to preserve functioning
of the lower back. For instance, lying face down and lifting
the head off the floor is an important exercise in preserving
back health. The author advises to eat plenty of veggies,
to take the anti-oxidants i.e. Vit. A-E and to eat fiber in the
diet. Overall, this book is a good purchase for your personal
health library.

The step-by-step fitness routines in Deborah Mackin's Getting Back In Shape aren't your usual generalities -- they are specific to women who have just had a baby, and offer five-minute workouts to allow busy moms to target specific body areas. Plenty of step-by-step color photos accompany easy instructions on how to get back into shape.

Dr. Mintle has done a through work in this book, "Getting Unstuck." She effectively deals with many problems that not only women but also men face this day and age.

It is obvious in the way this book is written that the author has applied her twenty years of studies, training, research, clinical and personal experiences in a positive and helpful way.

One can tell from reading that this preparation has given "substance" to the book which shows that the author has demonstrated abilities to recognize and analyze emotional, physical and spiritual problems.

The excellent value of these qualities above shown in Getting Unstuck is that Dr. Mintle shows practical ways on how to properly deal with these emotional, physical and spiritual problems.

The book clearly shows not only that changes need to be made but WHY and HOW those changes can make a positive difference in modern life today.

The book and author is straight forward in the approach to "getting unstuck." The positive points are clearly made, it says what the author means and means what she says.

From the tone of the book it appears that all is done from a heart of genuine love and concern for anyone in need that will be reading the book.

This book affords a totally positive approach to seemingly impossible situations that daily face both men and women.

"Getting Unstuck" could be of tremendous help for people who are involved in helping in such places as drug rehabilitation programs, Crisis Pregnancy Centers and other such institutions for the care of hurting people.

The book to me was the very best and most helpfully written that I have ever read on such important issues of today.

This Dr.Mintle certainly has a handle on the issues women deal with everyday. What an honest, loving and open approach. She's like a Dr.Laura, only nice. Dr.LINDA obviously truly cares about the women in her practice, but at the same time knows how to get right to heart of their problems - and mine! Thank God for Dr.Linda. She certainly helped me get UNstuck!

This book is a fun and easy reference to finally get all those etiquette questions answered. The author covers from soup to nuts everything you need to know to be savvy indeed. The book even contains a handy tipping and dining survival card. This book is a must have!

Finally tips that will have you remembered long after a dinner party - for doing the RIGHT thing!

This book is a MUST have for everyone! From young teens to seasoned professionals, Ms. Smith's encouraging words are helpful and insightful. She shares fun and creative ways to mind your manners. Keep this fantastic resource close!

To describe my life growing up as "sheltered" on a small farm in the Northeast would be an understatement. So when those "awkward" teen years hit, I was more clueless than Alicia Silverstone, especially when it came to boys.

Sure, I knew "the basics" - how things worked anatomically -- but no one ever had a talk with me about what to expect from teenage boys or dealing with birth control or the natural mental developmental delays of teenage boys!

Needless to say, I had a very rude awakening.

If only something like Girlology had been around back in the `70s. The closest thing my mom could find, bless her 1950's-style heart, was that Pat Boone classic, "'Twixt 12 and 20." (`Twixt' is such a quaint little word, isn't it?)

Unfortunately, sometime between the time it was published in the `50s and the time I got around to skimming it - please, do you really think that any respectable `70s teen was going to read anything by Pat Boone? - boys were probably, how you say, more horny? You know - free love and peace signs and feminism and all that.

So the advice contained in Girlology: Hang-Ups, Hook-Ups and Hanging Out would have come in handy.

It contains a lot of honest advice and answers to questions that you know teen girls have because, well, I remember having them as a teen girl.

Especially the stuff that became really important once I was in college (I was a late bloomer) about going to the gynecologist, birth control, and, of course, S-E-X.

The book is presented with each chapter describing a hypothetical scenario of teen girl life, such as boyfriends pressuring to have sex and body image issues that are then followed by Q&A's taken from the authors' interactions with actual teenage girls. Even though the authors are both doctors, it's not written in a clinical way - the answers are written very much in teen girl lingo and are extremely accessible.

I hope I have the nerve to give something like this to my daughter in a few years. Perhaps it will have more impact than the walking-along-the-beach-talking-about-douche-and-other-girl
things talk they used to show on the TV commercials.

Knowing my girl, if I tried to have that talk there'd be plenty of eye rolling, exasperated sighing and the "Oh, MO-om," retort.

As a mother of a girl, reading Girlology was a stark reminder about how things are as exponentially different between my girlhood and that of girls today in the same way they were massively different for my mother and my grandmother. I don't like the fact that in a few short years PunditGirl's need-to-know status on issues concerning boys and her developing body will be on high alert.

But at least I've gotten a bit of a head start with Girlology.

Dr's Melissa Holmes and Trish Hutchinson have compiled a much needed guide to help teen girls manage the trying rights of passage in these challenging times. The book is easy to read and full of valuable information that is communicated in a straight-forward style without being judgemental. Very few physicians can balance a true sense of caring and technical expertise in the same book. As a practicing psychologist, I see just how misinformed teenage girls can be and how reluctant they often are to ask the essential questions they need accurate answers to. I highly recommend it.

This Is my favorite book! Girls, Talk about isuies and show you cool crafts. In this book one of my fav chapters is the yoga chapter, where you learn a few bacis yoga moves. READ IT!

I am also an author in this book. My name is Emmarie and I wrote the second chapter, "Gaining Confidence, Taking Charge, and Forgetting Fear". My chapter is about how to become a more independent and confident person, and how not to fall prey to peer pressure. I have read Girls Know Best and Girls Know Best 2 also, and they are great books. Instead of having an adult write about what they THINK we are having to go through, this book is written by other girls from a large variety of places who are going through the same things as us. I really enjoyed helping to write this book, and I can't wait till it officially hits the shelves. I hope that everyone will check it out!

The whole series is like no other I have read, and probably will read. It is one of my favourite books and illustrates beautifully a type of life most of us will never experience...

A wonderful final installment. Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down. I look forward to Jodi Lynn's next book.

I am totaly engaged in the depth of Grace for Each Hour. We live in a time when not many are writing about the solid,
truth it is most refreshing to find an author willing to tell it so sweetly. Even though I have not had cancer I have recommended this book over and over to those that do, also to those going thru tough things they don't understand. I love Mary's honest and practical approach. She is wonderful at pointing everyone to Faith, in our life trials are going to come. Grace for Each Hours is strong light shining for God.
I am forever changed reading this book,Blessings to you Mary
and to Baker for giving us this light. Julie Ann Swecker
Manager of Daily Bread Books.

Let me ask you something - what does a biker chick stompin' in the House of God have to do with you? She's your mother, your daughter, your sister-friend, your wife ---- she walked that journey many of us dread. Breast cancer. She's classy, she's elegant, she's tender-hearted, she's eloquent, and she's composed. Yep, she's a biker chick who wrote a book with a powerful GENTLE impact. I challenge you to read it and try NOT to share a copy with all the women you love. We all joke about mammograms, just as we sit trembling in the waiting room before our appointments, surrounded by booklets and walls lined with BREAST CANCER information. We are afraid to even look at the literature. We just want to get in and OUT of there, scot-free, as quickly as possible. Mary got caught. If you are reading this, you know someone who's been there and you've prayed it will never be you. You've been at a complete loss for words when someone you love gets the terrifying news. Why is this book good? Mary J. Nelson most definitely has The WORDS. She's a genius and genuine article. A victorious survivor who hands down, knows exactly what to say and what to do in a fight for your life. If you've already read this book, then the good news is, there's a sequel! "GRACE FOR TOUGH TIMES: Keys to Hope, Comfort, & Encouragement". Trouble is, Mary's joy is catchy - don't read these books if you'd rather mope! Grab a tissue, prepare to be touched, moved, encouraged and dazzled. You've NEVER met a biker chick quite like this one ... but you know what, I'm sure glad I did! Be Blessed! **

Give this book a read! It's entertaining and makes you laugh out loud. I loved the idea of jellybean combinations for men and wish I would have thought of it. We all can relate. I found myself using the jellybean combos to describe my own relationships!

The Great Jellybean Taste Test is one of the funniest and most entertaining reads I have had in a long time! The relationship blunders this girl goes through are part of most every woman's dating experience. It made me feel like I wasn't the only girl out there looking for love in all the wrong places all the while thinking they were right!
And the Jellybean flavor comparisons will have you trying to figure out what the combination is/was of every man you have ever met!! Buy it, it's a blast!

Every woman should have this book in their home. I've referenced it countless times and just bought another one for my mom!

This is a great reference book for women and those in the health care industry that work with women. Great, concise, easy-to-understand information on a wide variety of health-related subjects.