You & Your Baby Pregnancy: The Ultimate Week-by-week Pregnancy Guide - Softcover

Riley, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 111808411X ISBN 13: 9781118084113

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

The most up-to-date, comprehensive week-by-week pregnancy guide

As a mom-to-be, you have lots of questions. When will I start to show? How much weight will I gain? What are all those blood tests for? How long will labor last? This informative and reassuring guide provides expert answers to these questions and hundreds more in an easy-to-read format that coincides with each week of your pregnancy.

From a respected and well-known obstetrician, this is the most up-to-date, comprehensive pregnancy guide on the market. Now in an all-new edition, the book gives you week-by-week coverage of every stage of your pregnancy, as well as information that will take you through your final post-natal doctor visit to help you make sense of relationships, returning to work, weight loss, breastfeeding, depression, anxiety, and more.

• Reflects current obstetrics practices
• Covers home birth, water birth, doula care, and other popular practices
• Includes information on Epilepsy, Vitamin D, flu shots, common prenatal labs, life with multiples, obesity, and much more
• Expanded coverage of what happens when you go to the hospital, new recommendations on eating in labor, immunizations during and after pregnancy, and postpartum birth control
• Illustrations help clarify key concepts and material

If you're an expectant mom or dad, you'll look forward to turning to You & Your Baby: Pregnancy every week of your pregnancy—and beyond.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Laura Riley, OB/GYN, is the medical director of labor and delivery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and a dedicated mom to daughters Natalie and Lauren. She is also assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School.

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Your ultimate week-by-week guide

As a mom-to-be, you have lots of questions. When will I start to show? How much weight will I gain? What are all those blood tests for? What should I avoid during pregnancy? This informative and reassuring guide provides expert answers to these questions and hundreds more in an easy-to-read format that follows each week of your pregnancy.

From a respected and well-known obstetrician, this is the most up-to-date, comprehensive pregnancy guide on the market. Now in an all-new edition, it gives you week-by-week coverage of every stage of your pregnancy, as well as information that will take you through your first six months as a new mom to help you make sense of relationships, returning to work, weight, breastfeeding, interpregnancy interval, depression, anxiety, and more.

• Amazing, full-color in-utero photographs guide you through a visual journey of your growing baby

• Fascinating facts on fetal development, including growth and development milestones and average baby sizes at every week of pregnancy

• Solutions to common pregnancy complaints and the latest research on topics that might affect your health or your baby's

• New information on important developments in obstetrics including coverage of epilepsy, vitamin D, flu shots, common prenatal labs, obesity, immunizations during and after pregnancy, and postpartum birth control

• Expanded information on what happens when you go to the hospital, new recommendations on eating in labor, and more

If you're an expectant mom or dad, you'll look forward to turning to You & Your Baby: Pregnancy every week of your pregnancy—and beyond.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 111808411X
• ISBN 13: 9781118084113
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
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