High-Risk Pregnancy and Foetal Diagnosis: Your Journey.High-Risk Pregnancy High-Risk Pregnancy Definition A high risk pregnancy is one in which some condition puts the mother, the developing fetus, or both at higher-than-normal risk for complications during or after the pregnancy and birth. and Foetal foe·tal adj. Chiefly British Variant of fetal. Adj. 1. foetal - of or relating to a fetus; "fetal development" fetal Diagnosis: Your Journey Stephanie Azri Free Association Books c/o International Specialized Book Services 920 Northeast 58th Avenue, Suite 300, Portland, OR 97213 1853439886 $29.95 www.isbs.com www.fabooks.com 1-800-944-6190 High-Risk Pregnancy and Foetal Diagnosis: Your Journey by professional family therapy, grief, and women's health Women's Health Definition Women's health is the effect of gender on disease and health that encompasses a broad range of biological and psychosocial issues. counselor Stephanie Azri is a practical guide written especially for women who must cope with medical diagnoses that put them in a high-risk category, or indicate abnormalities in their unborn. High-Risk Pregnancy and Foetal Diagnosis outlines in plain terms the choices expectant mothers expectant mother n → futura madre f expectant mother expect n → werdende Mutter f expectant mother n and fathers have with regard to screening tests and their risks, cases where the unborn is diagnosed with a potentially fatal disorder, labor and delivery versus means of terminating high-risk pregnancies or pregnancies with a severe malformation malformation /mal·for·ma·tion/ (-for-ma´shun) 1. a type of anomaly. 2. a morphologic defect of an organ or larger region of the body, resulting from an intrinsically abnormal developmental process. , the options for placing a child with Down's syndrome or other severe but nonlethal genetic flaws if the family feels unable to give proper care, and much more. Individual personal written testimonies put the reader in touch with the emotions and difficult choices that others who may have been in the same position have had to make. |
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