Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Studio: David Garrigus Video & Film Productions
• VHS Release Date: May 15, 1998
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 1892634031
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #596,717 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Booklist March 1, 1999

"High-Risk Pregnancy" addresses the specialized care that is required, often medical treatment and bed rest, and even hospitalization. Here, the situation of a mother confined to bed as she awaits the birth of twins is the focus of the production. Hospital and interview footage provide basic information about the medical management and emotional issues of the pregnancy and the care received by low-birth-weight babies in an intensive care nursery. In a successful outcome, one twin is delivered vaginally, the other by cesarean. This very helpful video shows the cautions and considerations that are needed in this special situation.

Product Description

Follow the story of Carol Addison and her family as they experience the physical and emotional realities of high-risk pregnancy. See firsthand what to expect as Carol works through the difficulties of trying to carry her twins nearer to term.

Carol starts to dilate at 30 weeks. Her doctor prescribes complete bed rest so that Carol can remain on her back and get the care she needs. While in the hospital, Carol tours a neonatal intensive care unit and learns what to expect should her babies need intensive care.

"It's worth what you go through to get to the end product," says Carol as she explains the realities of life in a high-risk hospital unit. In this case, the end product is the birth of healthy twins at 6 1/2 and a whopping 7 pounds. She delivers her first baby vaginally, but the second requires dramatic emergency c-section surgery.

The happy ending of "High-Risk Pregnancy" demonstrates just how successful high-risk treatment can be.

Along with your tape, you will receive multiple-choice questions for testing viewer comprehension and thought-provoking group discussion questions about the topic.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars High cost, low payoff--big..., July 29, 2003

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Andrew Alexander (United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: High-Risk Pregnancy: Coping with a Multiple Birth [VHS] (VHS Tape)

At around 15 minutes, the sale of this video borders on highway robbery [$$$]. It is completely understandable WHY someone would want to see this video, *desperately* want to see this video as my wife and I did, but the payoff is far to skimpy to justify the cost. First, the shortness makes it impossible to explore the issues involved with Hi-risk pregnancy in any kind of detail. Second, the subject of the video has a fabulous outcome--she has two healthy, average weight babies, and goes home quite early after giving birth. As any one who has been in this situation knows only too well, that is an impossible thing to hope for, and to even think very long in that vein is to sugar-coat a future that could and oftentimes is very different. I'd say it's better to confront what could go wrong. If someone made a video about that, and explored the subject in more detail, I'd pay far more than the [$$$] this video cost. Instead of really offering my wife any substantial analysis of her situation and situations like here, she was "treated' to a cartoonish narrative with a fairy-tale ending.

Have a long chat with the doctor instead of buying this video.