Pregnancy Your ultimate week-by-week pregnancy guide
Book - 2012
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- Subjects
- Published
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Hoboken, N.J. :
John Wiley & Sons
c2012.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- 2nd ed., fully updated & rev
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- 480 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9781118084113
- Dear Moms-to-be
- How to use this book
- Your due date
- The 1st Trimester
- Weeks 1. through 4
- Conception, implantation, and the fi rst days of life
- Early pregnancy anxiety
- Time to start taking vitamins and exercising
- Risks from obesity, smoking, and alcohol
- Week 5.
- Your body starts to change
- Family diseases and genetic screening
- Miscarriage and ectopic pregnancies
- Healthy fi rst trimester diet
- Week 6.
- Fatigue and sleeping problems
- Surviving morning sickness
- Choosing a birthplace and a birth team
- Questions to ask a potential practitioner
- Week 7.
- Dealing with mood swings
- Doubts about motherhood
- Healthy weight gain during pregnancy
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Week 8.
- Baby's fi rst ultrasound
- Colds, flu, and allergies during pregnancy
- Hazards and toxins at work and at home
- Week 9.
- Your fi rst OB exam and prenatal lab tests
- Walking program for beginners
- Dealing with back pain and constipation
- Week 10.
- What to do when your clothes don't fi t
- Food safety issues with fi sh, meat, and cheese
- Great ways for your partner to provide support
- Week 11.
- First trimester tests for chromosomal disorders
- How your friends react to pregnancy
- Food cravings and aversions
- Week 12.
- Sleep problems and solutions
- High blood pressure and pregnancy
- Healthy snacks and nonalcoholic party drinks
- The 2nd Trimester
- Week 13.
- Importance of dental care during pregnancy
- Reading and understanding food labels
- Will your second pregnancy be like your fi rst?
- Week 14.
- Heartburn causes and cures
- Maternity leave and other work issues
- Mood swings, depression, and anxiety
- Reducing sodium in your diet
- Your partner's emotional journey
- Week 15.
- Preventing varicose veins
- All about amniocentesis
- Sex-good and bad-during the second trimester
- Preparing older children for a new baby
- Week 16.
- Late miscarriage: causes and symptoms
- Questioning your new identity
- Staying motivated to exercise
- Week 17.
- Feeling your baby move for the fi rst time
- Treating lower-back pain
- Pregnancy issues for single moms
- Alternative exercises for pregnancy fi tness
- Week 18.
- What you might see on an ultrasound
- Traveling safely while pregnant
- How your partner reacts to your changing appearance
- Week 19.
- Signs of trouble to watch for
- Tips for your maternity wardrobe
- Eating smart while traveling
- Week 20.
- All about high-risk pregnancies
- Chronic stress: your body and your baby
- How your partner can interact with your baby
- Week 21.
- Vacationing smart in mid-pregnancy
- Sex affected by a growing belly
- Stretching exercises for expectant mothers
- Week 22.
- Once a cesarean, always a cesarean?
- Career protection for working moms
- Strategies for coping with nighttime waking
- Week 23.
- Iron defi ciency, anemia, and fatigue
- Taming your junk-food cravings
- Vegetarian diets and pregnancy
- Week 24.
- Common skin problems in pregnancy
- Keeping your focus at work
- Feathering your nest: essential baby gear
- The 3rd Trimester
- Week 25.
- Breathlessness and other breathing problems
- Complete guide to preterm labor and delivery
- Multiple births: likelihood, detecting, and risks
- Week 26.
- Childbirth, baby-care, and breastfeeding education
- Fats in your diet-good and bad
- Exercise: fatigue and when it's time to stop
- Week 27.
- Hepatitis and other liver diseases
- Fighting the mid-pregnancy blues
- Staying hydrated: water and alternatives
- Choosing an infant car seat
- Week 28.
- Tests during the third trimester
- Gestational diabetes: risks, causes, and treatments
- Surviving bed rest
- Complete guide to cesarean deliveries
- Week 29.
- Breech babies-identifi cation and risk
- Planning for labor: positions and pain relief
- Conquering childbirth fears
- Outfi tting a safe nursery
- Week 30.
- Numbness in your hands-explanation and relief
- Causes and solutions for abdominal pain
- The role of a doula
- Protecting your job while on maternity leave
- Week 31.
- Practicing for labor-a guide to breathing techniques
- Placenta previa and placental abruption
- Why trying to do it all is overrated
- Week 32.
- Due dates: calculations and guesses
- Supplies for your baby's arrival
- The ABCs of daycare
- Week 33.
- Parenting philosophies and parenting plans
- Assembling a complete baby wardrobe
- Will you need an episiotomy?
- Week 34.
- Reduced fetal movements-when to be concerned
- Baby gear guide: strollers, backpacks, and more
- The truth about back labor
- Week 35.
- Turning breech babies before delivery
- Grandparents and your new baby
- Planning for postpartum weight loss
- Week 36.
- Delivering more than one baby
- Packing for the hospital
- Problems with your amniotic fl uid
- Week 37.
- Considering circumcision for your baby boy
- The earliest signs of labor
- Should your older children be in the delivery room?
- Starting a breastfeeding diet
- Week 38.
- Treating persistent headaches
- Contraception choices for after pregnancy
- Nesting and a need for solitude
- Week 39.
- Forceps delivery and vacuum extraction
- Labor day surprises
- What if you can't make it to the hospital?
- Week 40.
- The truth about home remedies for inducing labor
- Your doctor's reasons and techniques for inducing labor
- Postpartum exercise and fi tness classes
- Labor and delivery
- Feeding your baby
- Postpartum and baby care
- Six months postpartum
- Questions for your doctor
- Appendices Body mass index
- Resources
- Prenatal tests
- Newborn tests
- Labor and delivery terms
- Index