Best family health books according to redditors

We found 7 Reddit comments discussing the best family health books. We ranked the 5 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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Top Reddit comments about Family Health:

u/istrebitjel · 9 pointsr/amazon

Bingo, it's not available from Amazon directly

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1582559996/

Indeed, file an a-z claim. However, I would advise you to first check the order in your account, my orders. The condition of the book should be described there.

u/RedErin · 3 pointsr/sex

My parents never said anything about it. Sex ed did an okay job I guess. I have a 12 year old daughter and we've always been honest and open with any questions she's had.

I recommend buying the book It's Perfectly Normal.

It's the best book I've seen that talks about the subject in a kid friendly way but is totally honest and frank.

u/thisishooey · 3 pointsr/NewParents

Things got better for us around 8 weeks. We started on the Babywise schedule (https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Babywise-Nighttime-Interactive-Support/dp/1932740503/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?keywords=Babywise&qid=1568141544&s=gateway&sr=8-2) at two weeks. It absolutely worked for us. If you're into schedules, give it a try. The schedules are also available on the website (https://babywise.life/pages/sample-baby-sleep-schedules) but the book has a lot more information than the website.

Every day will get a little better, I promise. I definitely had my moments of wanting to return baby to the hospital! You WILL get through this!

u/firegal · 1 pointr/TwoXChromosomes

It may have been an implantation that failed and was a miscarriage. This is apparently a lot more common than people realise with women attributing the odd bleed here and there to their periods being messed up. Take a pregnancy test to be sure. They are very accurate nowadays.

It's unlikely that a condom degraded from being in your wallet for a week after you bought it. They come with use by dates that are usually a couple of years.

And it still could be simply a weird bleed that some women have from time to time. Some women have very stable and predictable cycles but some women's cycles never really stabilise and odd bleeds happen from time to time.

Get your girlfriend to read The Billings Method: http://www.amazon.com/Billings-Method-Dr-Evelyn/dp/0345341112/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=undefined&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Billings+Method.

This gives women an easy and natural way to track their fertility and ovulation by being aware of vaginal mucus secretions. You might want to combine using condoms and avoiding sex while she is ovulating to give you more peace of mind. You might both want to read the book, it's very educational about fertility and ovulation and women's cycles in general.

Don't stress out too much, bucko, welcome to wonderful world of adult responsibilities. It's not unusual for young people to have pregnancy scares from time to time but it sounds like you're doing everything right and acting very responsibly. Good luck with your future and look after each other.

u/rbaltimore · 1 pointr/PenmanshipPorn

You may be surprised to hear this, but MS is not a hereditary disorder. Your family may be like mine, wherein autoimmune disorders, in general, run in the family, but even in my family, even that is questionable. What is significantly more likely to be happening in my family (and maybe yours) has to do with epigenetics. Go down that rabbit hole, it's fascinating. The MS center I go to has been offering my family to graduate medical researchers to study if/how epigenetics has played a role in the autoimmune diseases we all seem to have (especially because we have all spent most of our lives geographically and socio-culturally close to each other.

Mental illness in early hominids or even early H. sapiens is absolutely fascinating to me, though any information we find can only be inferred from things like endocasts, other neuro-structural elements in the fossil record, and from the behavior of mammals and primates, apes in particular. It can also be inferred from mental illnesses that are found to be caused 100% by biology. This book gives a thorough overview of mental illness in animals and the research studies she cites could be looked at in the quest for our own maladies. Other things we look at are mental health disorders that we know to be found in all current human cultures, with evidence in some past cultures. Schizophrenia is a good example.

We have to be careful of culture-specific disorders and disorders that are not considered disorders in other cultures. I'll give you some reading for thins:

This book is not directly about a mental health disorder, but it shows why medical and psychological anthropology is vital to living in a melting pot like the US. I have stories from my mentor, a forensic and bioanthropologist, that are similar.

This book is an absolutely fascinating book that talks about how the mental health framework has been exported all over the world. Again, it's not directly able to talk about mental illness in early hominid species, but I think it important to understand while we are on that search.

Hopefully those books will help you with your questions, at least until more fossil evidence is found, since endocasts are not just popping up everyday!

u/k_alva · 1 pointr/AskReddit

Check out this book. I never had "the talk" because my church offered (real) sex ed classes so I was forced into. I hated them at the time but am grateful now. The book suggested here was the book used for the middle school class, so its not explicit and is quite amusing at time while being accurate and not pussyfooting around things.

Maybe in a few years when she is no longer a preteen, have another one and say something along the lines of "Its your choice when you feel ready to have sex, but remember that a baby is a big responsibility, so make sure you are safe about it." Another effective thing my mom told me was that if I was responsible enough to have a baby I was responsible enough to take care of myself. She would still love me, but I would have to pay rent to live at her house.

u/bowlingaloneish · 1 pointr/NewParents