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...

Regardless of whether it is a planned decision or an unexpected surprise, parenthood is a responsibility that requires the utmost consideration. This program explores the subject of family planning, from birth control options, to pregnancy, to the basics of childbirth. The effects of parenthood on previous personal life goals are discussed. Options for coping with infertility are covered as well.

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 2 Labor & Birth includes: anatomy and birth, medical procedures, and newborns.

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 Healthy Steps for Teen Parents series helps teens navigate life from the first signs of pregnancy through birth, diapers, and finishing school. Videos provide a real-world approach to succeeding as young parents. Volume 1- Pregnancy includes: prenatal care & nutrition, protecting your baby, physical & emotional changes, and getting support.

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.

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)...

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.

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.

A pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks, usually divided into three parts called trimesters. During the first trimester, hormonal changes in the body can affect the pregnant woman's emotions, the breasts became enlarged and tender, and morning sickness may occur. At the end of the first trimester, the fetus is about pinky-finger size, and nearly all its internal organs start to develop. During the second trimester, nausea eases up and may be replaced by...