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Working Womb : How Proven Placenta Science Can Empower You to Conquer Pregnancy Anguish, Triumph over Miscarriage, and Have a Thriving Baby! by Alexander Kofinas (2021, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherTruman Publishing Media Group

ISBN-100982373457

ISBN-139780982373453

eBay Product ID (ePID)2328302228

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Number of Pages346 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameWorking Womb : How Proven Placenta Science Can Empower You to Conquer Pregnancy Anguish, Triumph over Miscarriage, and Have a Thriving Baby!

Publication Year2021

SubjectWomen's Health, Pregnancy & Childbirth, Gynecology & Obstetrics

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaHealth & Fitness, Medical

AuthorAlexander Kofinas

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight14.1 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2019-954680

Reviews"Eye-opening. I am in awe reading this book. The mix of medicine with personal experiences is unique. If I knew these facts when I got pregnant, I would have taken better care of myself and my fetus. Highly informative, compassionate ...pioneering ideas and innovative applications ... empathy for patients ... tremendous medical detail and difficult concepts presented in simple terms ... understanding becomes easy." -Dr Litsa Kranias, PhD, Fellow of the American Heart Association; Hanna Professor, Director of Cardiovascular Biology & Distinguished University Research Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Systems Physiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine "Remarkable... For women and their partners who have experienced multiple miscarriages and ask 'why does this keep happening?' But importantly, this book is ultimately also for open-minded obstetricians who are willing to consider new pathways to help their patients. As a medical doctor, I confess that we learned next to nothing about the placenta in medical school...Dr Kofinas, having devoted his career to understanding this orphan organ, shares his experience on how to diagnose and treat the most common placental problems that lead to miscarriage. I have had the incredible privilege to be under Dr Kofinas's care for two tenuous but ultimately healthy pregnancies after six prior miscarriages. This book is like being in his office... instead of patronizing pregnant women, it refreshingly provides them with medical knowledge to understand their placentas and advocate for better care." -Dr Umut Sarpel, MD, Fellow of the American College of Surgeons; Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology & Hepatobiliary Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Director, General Surgery Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Morningside/West) "I highly recommend THE WORKING WOMB, an informative book specifically for an often forgotten group: women having difficult pregnancies. Dr Kofinas explains the placenta science that underlies many pregnancy problems in language that's easy to understand. The cases he presents from his files will give readers much-needed hope, by showing them how others have endured similar problems and succeeded." -Dr Lorraine Chrisomalis-Valasiadis, MD, obstetrician and gynecologist, New York City, Adjunct Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwell Health (New York State's largest healthcare provider) "Dr Kofinas has done a great job in producing a book that explains, in language that will be understandable to people with no medical background, the very complex development process and vital role of the placenta, in pregnancy and in the health of both the baby and the mother. He is a modern Renaissance man." -Dr James C Rose, PhD, Emeritus Director, Center for Research in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal614.59922

SynopsisIf you've struggled to sustain a viable pregnancy - The Working Womb is for you. Understand why miscarriages happen - and what you can do to prevent this. Dr. Kofinas, one of America's leading high-risk pregnancy experts, explains how to ANTICIPATE pregnancy obstacles with foreknowledge; MINIMIZE the chances of their worsening and CORRECT them in good time BEFORE they get big enough to threaten your pregnancy with disaster. In plain language that can be understood by readers with no scientific education, he explains how fetal deaths, recurrent miscarriage and women's cardiovascular disease all relate to the placenta, an organ that grows in the uterus during pregnancy. Drawing on thousands of patient files amassed at his New York clinic, he shares true stories of women who were close to believing a successful pregnancy was beyond them. These inspiring, readable, intimate case summaries tell how, with diagnostic and treatment methods based on placenta science, healthy babies were born despite severe pregnancy complications. ("Today my office walls and files are full of photos of their thriving children.") The Working Womb is a powerfully human statement, by a physician who has devoted the bulk of his working life to saving fetal lives, that challenges us to re-evaluate our conventional thinking about how pregnancy works and should be managed. The Working Womb explains what the placenta is, how it's formed, and its profound effects, what it needs to work successfully, how its problems relate to various types of pregnancy failure, and how the timely, responsive monitoring of placenta development can prevent disaster and address womb crises in time to save the pregnancy. The book is aimed primarily at women experiencing or anticipating pregnancy complications, but it will also be invaluable for their families, as well as for physicians, including obstetricians. Dr. Kofinas believes that the US has failed pregnant women for years, resulting in the needless deaths of thousands of babies. He holds the medical establishment to account for "shrugging off" America's high rate of miscarriage, which he attributes to "placenta science illiteracy" among health insurers and doctors. The Working Womb was also written to expose the woeful quality of medical care being provided to women who experience pregnancy complications. "Because of my long frustration and exhaustion with trying to change the stubborn habits of the medical profession, in the face of the pressure of powerful health insurance companies whose interests are served by resisting change, I decided to write a book that speaks directly to patients. It's time women who struggle to sustain a pregnancy know the truth about the healthcare system. The only way this unacceptable position will be changed is if women educate themselves about proper placenta care and speak out to demand it." Read less, NEW HOPE FOR EVERY WOMAN WHO HAS ENDURED PREGNANCY ANGUISH. Of all human embryos conceived in the US, 65% don't survive past four weeks. Of those that do, one in four miscarry. Society largely turns a blind eye to these shocking numbers ... and to the fact that every year more American women die of cardiovascular disease than from cancer, accidents, Alzheimer's and respiratory diseases combined. What these topics have in common is the placenta, the organ which is the subject of this eye-opening book. THE WORKING WOMB brings recurrent miscarriage out of the shadows, presenting a new, placenta-based understanding of pregnancy that challenges conventional pregnancy management, and offering crucial answers to women struggling with the lonely despair of repeat miscarriage or other pregnancy obstacles. Dr Kofinas, one of America's leading high-risk pregnancy experts, delivers science-based optimism to mothers at their wits' end. Drawing on thousands of patient files amassed at his New York clinic, he shares true stories of women who were close to believing a successful pregnancy was beyond them. These inspiring, readable, intimate case summaries tell how, with diagnostic and treatment methods based on placenta science, healthy babies were born despite severe pregnancy complications. ("Today my office walls and files are full of photos of their thriving children.") THE WORKING WOMB confronts our society's widespread ignorance of the placenta's key role in determining pregnancy outcomes, and exposes the disgrace of America's high fetal death rate. In plain language that can be understood by readers with no scientific education, Dr Kofinas explains how fetal deaths, recurrent miscarriage, and women's cardiovascular disease all relate to the placenta. The book is filled with surprising facts that the public and medical practitioners alike should know about how the placenta shapes pregnancy outcomes, as well as human health in the womb, infancy, childhood and adulthood. This information-packed distillation of decades of clinical experience and insight offers science-based hope to women who want to defeat recurrent miscarriage and other pregnancy disorders arising from later-age motherhood, genetic problems, immune-system problems, and more. Revealing how insurance companies influence pregnancy management, the author spotlights neglected areas of pregnancy science, women's health, healthcare failure, the shortcomings of physician education, the questionable practice of dividing pregnancy into trimesters, the ways in which valuable but often ignored clinical knowledge can be amassed by physicians outside the research establishment, and the massive economic and human cost to society of healthcare that focuses less on preventing illness than on waiting for predictable illness to happen before responding to it, often too late. THE WORKING WOMB explains what the placenta is, how it's formed, and its profound effects, what it needs to work successfully, how its problems relate to various types of pregnancy failure, and how the timely, responsive monitoring of placenta development can prevent disaster and address womb crises in time to save the pregnancy. The book is aimed primarily at women experiencing or anticipating pregnancy complications, but it will also be invaluable for their families, as well as for physicians, including obstetricians.

LC Classification NumberRG121.K68 2020