Common sense pregnancy Navigating a healthy pregnancy & birth for mother & baby
Book - 2015
"JEANNE FAULKNER has worked in women's health for 30 years, first in doctor's offices, free clinics, and classrooms and then as a registered nurse, specializing in obstetrics, labor and delivery, and neonatal care. She began her career as a journalist in 2002 and currently writes the weekly column Ask the Labor Nurse for FitPregnancy.com. She contributes articles about health, medicine, food, parenting, travel, and lifestyle issues to such publications as Fit Pregnancy, Pregnancy, Shape, Better Homes & Gardens, and the Huffington Post and Oregonian newspapers. She's also the senior writer/editor for Every Mother Counts, a global maternal health advocacy organization founded by Christy Turlington Burns"--
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Berkeley :
Ten Speed Press
[2015]
©2015. - Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- xii, 244 pages ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-234) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781607746751
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. When You First Get Pregnant
- What to do when you find out you're pregnant
- How to have a well pregnancy instead of a fear-based pregnancy
- Is your pregnancy no-risk, low-risk, moderate-risk, or high-risk?
- How soon do you need to see a midwife or doctor?
- Who should you tell that you're pregnant, and when?
- How soon will you look pregnant instead of just fluffy?
- What does your due date really mean?
- How much stuff do you need?
- Chapter 2. Choosing Your Care
- How to pick your health care provider
- Why choosing a midwife makes sense
- If you have a midwife, a nurse, a partner, and a labor support team, do you need a doula?
- How to pick where you'll have your baby
- Who's on your labor team-and how to keep your labor room drama free
- Chapter 3. Your Pregnant Body
- What should you eat?
- How to deal with feeling like crap
- What about sex?
- Just how tough is your baby? Dealing with fears about exposure to drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, and other toxins
- Common medical bumps in the road
- Chapter 4. Prenatal Tests
- What are all those prenatal tests for, and do you really have to have them?
- What about ultrasounds?
- The pros and cons of genetic testing
- Nonstress tests, biophysical profiles, and other late-pregnancy tests
- Chapter 5. Prenatal Education and Birth Plans
- Getting a prenatal education-before and beyond what the hospital teaches
- How to determine whether you want your birth to be all natural, all medical, or something in between
- How your pregnancy determines your birth plan
- Birth plans: pros, cons, reality checks
- Chapter 6. How to Deal with Late Pregnancy Curve Balls
- Your doctor says your baby is too big and wants to schedule an induction or C-section-what now?
- Your ultrasound shows you have too much/too little amniotic fluid-what now?
- You've tested positive for group beta strep-what now?
- You're dilating early or not dilating yet-what now?
- Your midwife says you need an obstetrician-a few reasons why you might "risk out" for low-risk/low-intervention care
- Chapter 7. When the End Is in Sight
- You know the end is in sight and all of a sudden you're freaking out-what's going on?
- You feel heavy, cranky, crampy, and yucky-should you ask for an induction?
- How to get the show on the road-what works and what doesn't for starting labor naturally
- How to keep from losing your mind while you wait for labor to start
- You're overdue (or are you?)-what should you do?
- Chapter 8. Are You in Labor?
- You're leaking fluid-did your water break or did you wet your pants?
- You lost your mucous plug or see a little bleeding-are you going into labor?
- How to tell when you're really, truly, honest-to-god in labor
- Water management-what to do if your water bag breaks in public and what to expect when it breaks during labor
- Chapter 9. At the Hospital
- Who works on the maternity unit? From nurses to lab techs-all the people who might take care of you and your baby
- Hygiene and grooming for labor-what matters, what totally doesn't?
- Shaving, enemas, episiotomies, and other old-school routines
- Can you eat when you're in labor?
- Chapter 10. Labor Pains
- The biggest difference between your first and second labors (or third, or fourth...)
- How bad is labor, anyway?
- Pain management 101-everything from deep breaths to epidurals, and how to take it one step at a time
- Epidural 101-how it works, who puts it in, why it takes a while, and why you can't custom-order it
- Epidural FAQs
- What's Pitocin really like?
- Chapter 11. Other Labor and Delivery Issues
- Meconium-what does it mean when sh** happens?
- The big push-how to do it if you don't have an urge, and how to avoid pushing too hard
- Vacuums, forceps, and other tools of the trade
- Lacerations 101 (what it means if you tear)
- Body fluids, blood, and guts-all the gross stuff that happens during labor and why you shouldn't worry about it
- Chapter 12. C-Sections, VBACs, and More
- You're scheduled for a C-section-what happens next?
- You want a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC)-how can you have one, and what are the risks?
- You have twins or your baby is breech-can you still have a vaginal birth?
- Chapter 13. Once the Baby Is Born
- How to decide which tests and shots your baby will get in the delivery room and nursery
- When your baby needs intensive care
- Chapter 14. Processing and Healing Postpartum
- Processing your birth experience
- Healing, bleeding, leaking, and cramps-what's normal, what's not?
- Will you ever be normal down there again?
- Now that everything's different, will life ever be normal again?
- Chapter 15. Having a New Baby
- A word about day three
- What you can do the first week, second week, third week, sixth week
- Sleep, sleep deprivation, and how to keep from losing your mind
- How to do anything now that you have a newborn-including taking a shower, going to the store, and having an adult conversation
- The second baby-how to add another kid to your life
- Chapter 16. Feeding Your Baby
- Breast versus bottle-battle lines and peace treaties
- How to get the help you need when breastfeeding is hard
- Cracked, sore nipples? Engorgement? Tips for making your breasts feel better
- Pumping, dumping, storing, and freezing your breast milk
- Bottle feeding, judgment free
- How long should you breastfeed?
- How to work and breastfeed
- Conclusion
- Special Circumstances Appendix 1: Pregnancy and parenting for women with history: getting real about custody, child welfare, drug addiction, domestic violence, homelessness
- Special Circumstances Appendix 2: When a Baby Dies
- Notes and Resources
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Every Mother Counts
- Index