Midwife Marley's Guide For Everyone: Pregnancy, Birth and the 4th Trimester
Ebook
Overview
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Do you have questions? The Guide for Everyone has all the answers you need
Marley Hall is a midwife and mum of five – in other words, she’s seen it all. In her Guide for Everyone, you’ll find answers to questions you never knew you wanted to ask. Like, what do these clinical terms mean? What are my choices? And is there a ‘right’ way to give birth or take care of my baby?
Birth is a unique experience for every person, and the book contains the latest guidance that will help you to understand the full picture all the way through an entire 12 months. Each chapter is illustrated with Marley’s original doodle-drawings and is subtly colour coded, so you can flick through and find exactly what you’re looking for right now, when you need it.
There is evidence-based information to support everyone and provide a reliable source of knowledge about important things like when to call your care provider, getting baby into an optimal position for birth, how to approach the ‘fourth trimester’ (the three months after the birth), and even where to find the shower in a postnatal ward. You’ll be armed with all the tools you need to communicate and thrive wherever you are, be it birth centre, hospital or home. It’s like having your own personal Marley on call!
“Supportive, inclusive, knowledgeable and wonderfully warm, Midwife Marley is the perfect partner for your positive pregnancy and parenting journey. Every family touched by her help feels genuinely valued.”
Siobhan Freegard OBE, Founder of Netmums
The modern bible for pregnancy, birth and life afterwards (packed with doodles to show exactly what’s going on!)
Agenda-setting – it’s inclusive and puts mothers first, offering crucial evidence-based information. This will be the first big commercial book to put the 4th trimester centre-stage, as well as giving all parents the tools they need to ask the right questions (e.g. asking to see the appropriate BMI chart based on ethnic background)
@midwifemarley has an engaged Instagram following, with parents-to-be who find her doodles immediate and informative (jumped from 70k to 100k in the last few months)
Marley is a media-friendly expert whose podcast is in its third season - we’ll see more of her on TV and she features in Emma Bunton’s new book Mama You Got This
Bloomsbury won this title in an 8-way auction
Cute doodles reminiscent of Hurrah for Gin, crossed with Candice Braithwaite’s I Am Not Your Baby Mother and the full-colour guide format of (now somewhat discredited!) Clemmie Hooper
This fabulous guide engages the reader through informative illustrations and detailed, evidence-based text. I’ll be recommending Marley’s book for sure!
Midwife Marley is so informative and her illustrations are so relatable. She keeps it real, fresh and humorous
Supportive, inclusive, knowledgeable and wonderfully warm, Midwife Marley is the perfect partner for your positive pregnancy and parenting journey. Every family touched by her help feels genuinely valued
Marley has a knack of knowing just which topics women need her insight, and busts myth after myth with humour and a writing style that’s straight to the point
- Title: Midwife Marley's Guide For Everyone: Pregnancy, Birth and the 4th Trimester
- Author: Marley Hall
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781526639370, 9781526639394, 1526639394, 1526639378
- Resource ID: LLS:9781526639370
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T11:54:36Z
Marley Hall has helped thousands of women achieve a positive birth experience through her work as a registered midwife. She has also given birth four times herself (once to twins). Passionate about sharing her knowledge and diversifying the birth and parenting world, Marley began educating people through social media in 2019 – her doodle-style diagrams and pictures now have an international following of people who find these evidence-based images an accessible and immediate way to understand pregnancy and childbirth. The Guide for Everyone is her first book, and it's designed to be the ultimate guide for all new parents. @midwifemarley