This program helps teens navigate life from the first signs of pregnancy through birth, diapers, and finishing school. Created specifically to hold the attention of young adults, this series uses an encouraging, real-world approach to show teens how to succeed as young parents. Volume 3 Postpartum includes: physical recovery and postpartum emotions, baby care and behaviors,SIDS, and relationships and parenting.

Nothing can be more distressing to a new parent than not knowing how to help when baby is sick. This program gives clear demonstrations of how to take an infant's temperature using a digital thermometer and how to measure and give prescription medication.

Nothing can be more distressing to a new parent than not knowing how to help when baby is sick. This program gives clear demonstrations of how to take an infant's temperature using a digital thermometer and how to measure and give prescription medication.

This sensitive and informative program uses dramatizations of real-life situations to explore the choices available to young people faced with an unplanned pregnancy. While some references pertain to U.K. citizens only, the video provides a useful overview as a teen couple evaluates the options and implications of keeping the baby, adoption, and voluntary termination. Interviews with health care and education professionals, parents, and young people...

This special version of The Stages of Labor is designed for teens-with modern animation and graphics, all-teen births, and a teen narrator. Easy-to-understand 3D animation of the labor process, real video segments showing teen parents in labor, and personal interviews create a program that engages and informs young adult viewers. Content includes:anatomy of pregnancy,onset of labor, early labor, active labor, transition pushing and birth, delivery...

The character Emily is a 7-year-old who learns that when the baby is ready to be born, the mother will start to feel labor contractions as her uterus begins to squeeze and push the baby out. It is a tight fit, but coming out does not hurt the baby.

A mother explains that after her membranes ruptured and her water broke, she began to experience the first phase of labor, or early labor. For her this first phase took about six hours, but the average time is variable, lasting from two to six hours. Rarely it can last up to 24 hours. During early labor, the pressure of repeated regular contractions causes the cervix, which is closed when labor begins, to open up to a diameter of 1.2 inches (3 centimeters)...

This video features the nutrition chapter from our Understanding Pregnancy program and helps ensure that expectant mothers receive the dietary information they need for a healthy pregnancy. Content includes: extra calories, weight gain, healthy cooking and eating habits, USDA's "MyPlate," foods to limit or avoid, iron and folic acid, dental hygiene, prenatal vitamins, cravings, beverages, breastfeeding preparation, and being active.

This hard-hitting documentary uses interviews with several girls, their boyfriends, parents, counselors, teachers, and other professionals to examine one of the most critical issues facing young Americans today. Exploring the reasons why so many teenagers get pregnant, the video looks at the facts on adolescent sexual behavior and attitudes toward birth control. Although the emphasis is focused on the mother-to-be, the program also studies the parental...

Emily's mother explains that when the egg and sperm meet in the mother's fallopian tube, instructions for building a baby are contributed by the sperm. If the sperm is carrying an X, the baby will be a girl, and if it is carrying a Y, the baby will be a boy.