Your complete guide to: a healthy pregnancy, labour and giving birth, life with your new baby. Every parent is different, just as every baby is different. So there can’t be many rules to having a baby. But you will find a lot of information in these pages which should help you to decide what you will do, how you will cope and, most of all, how you can best enjoy both pregnancy and your baby. This book is given free to all first-time mothers in Wales.
A Man's Guide to Pregnancy is a fun look at pregnancy from the man's point of view.
It makes an especially good gift book for the expecting father as it is full of humorous helpful hints to guide a man through this sometimes confusing, always hectic time.
Problems in early pregnancy are among the most common conditions in gynecology and - with management becoming less invasive and depending more on accurate ultrasound and a good understanding of serum biochemistry - many countries now recommend that all maternity units have an early pregnancy section dedicated to managing these conditions. This book is a practical guide for the management of at-risk early pregnancy. The chapters are concise, well-illustrated and contain decision trees for the management of each condition. Focusing on practical management, not just research, this helpful text will be beneficial in the clinic, as contributors are encouraged to tell the readers ...
Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy
Would-be mothers looking for precise, accurate information from a
reputable source will appreciate this mammoth pregnancy guide from the
celebrated Mayo Clinic. The volume actually provides much more
information than most parents will need: week by week accounts of the
baby’s development, entries on how pregnancy can be affected by dozens
of previous health conditions (such as HIV and diabetes), self-care
tips for side effects like nausea and back pain, sidebars that explain
the difference between identical and fraternal twins, etc. But the book
contains at least one feature that most pregnant women will find
indispensable: charts that indicate how to handle "troublesome signs
and symptoms" during each three week period. For example, if a woman
has slight spotting during the first four weeks of pregnancy, the chart
tells her to notify a doctor during her next hospital visit. But if she
has any bleeding at all during weeks 29 to 32, the chart indicates that
she should tell her doctor immediately. Another stellar feature is the
book’s even-handed series of "decision guides," which help parents make
those hard (and even guilt-inducing) choices about breastfeeding,
circumcision and whether or not to go back to work. Some parents may
find the book’s cool, no-nonsense tone intimidating, or even scary, but
when deciding what to do about mid-term cramps or pain, most readers
will find great reassurance this volume’s carefully vetted facts.
