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Educational Pregnancy Video Guide

This tape is geared toward helping you manage pain during labor and delivery. Hosted by Patty Duke Astin, it is meant to be used in conjunction with prepared childbirth classes. It explains the Lamaze method of mind over pain, developed by French obstetrician Fernand Lamaze in 1951. The method gives you tools to learn how to relax, which Lamaze thought was key to diminishing fatigue and pain. Relaxation is taught through modified progressive relaxation, massage, release to touch, attention focusing and imagery. Breathing techniques, such as slow-, modified- and patterned-paced, are also explored.

This Emmy Award-winning program is part of the NOVA series on PBS. (Original broadcast date: 12/15/83.) Your 60 minute journey through the human body begins as the egg is released from the ovary and the sperm is released from the testes. From there, you will see what actually happens during pre-conception, conception, and after. Beautifully filmed with magnification of up to half a million times actual size, you'll see the sperm fertilize the egg after its incredible journey through the female body, then follow the development of the embryo as it changes into a fetus. The program culminates in the birth of the baby. A must see as you try to conceive or during early pregnancy! To order, check out the NOVA online video information or call (800) 255-WGBH.

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