Pregnancy Book Reviews: What Every Women Needs to Know About Pregnancy
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Product Description
Whether you are trying to get pregnant or are already expecting you no doubt have dozens of questions that you would like to have answered.
Written by a medical professional, “Pregnancy From A to Z” is just what the doctor ordered to answer all your questions. In fact, it probably has answers to questions you haven’t even asked yet!
In the Beginning!
“Pregnancy From A to Z” not only discusses the entire aspects of pregnancy, it also sheds light on what you should do before becoming pregnant to insure a healthy and happy child.
What’s more is a full chapter discussion about increasing the odds for having a boy or a girl! No guarantees of course, but there are things you can do to sway the odds in your favor.
What we hope you will learn is how to be prepared for what is to come as your pregnancy progresses. Why should you read “Pregnancy From A to Z?”
Because of the author!
Not only is the author a medical doctor specializing in women and children’s health issues, she is also a wife and mother. And as if that weren’t enough, in addition to traditional medicine she explores the alternative methods as well and incorporates a holistic approach to her practice.
As you can see in the following list “Pregnancy From A to Z” covers it all:
Ø Symptoms of early pregnancy
Ø Diagnosis of pregnancy
Ø Calculation of delivery date
Ø Development of pregnancy: what happens to your baby inside the womb on different pregnancy stages
Ø What happens to your body as pregnancy progresses
Ø What to avoid during pregnancy
Ø Which medication to use
Ø Effect of smoking, alcohol and illegal drugs on fetus
Ø Sex during pregnancy
Ø Bleeding during early and late pregnancy
Ø Morning sickness: what can be done to help
Ø Risk factors for baby, abnormalities; when some investigations need to be done (like US and/or amniocentesis)
Ø The use of anti-D in pregnancy
Ø Group Streptococcus (GBS) in pregnancy
Ø Diet during pregnancy
Ø Childbirth explanation – normal labor, Caesarean section
Ø Anesthetics used for childbirth
Ø Evaluation of newborn – Apgar score- what does it mean?
Ø Two to tango: father’s role during pregnancy
Ø Birth choices. Water birth
Ø What is ectopic pregnancy (risk, future chances for normal pregnancy)?
All this and more await you in “Pregnancy From A to Z” a definite must have to answer all those burning questions about becoming pregnant.
Who better to teach you than a medical professional who is also a wife and mother?
Grab your copy now for yourself or as the ultimate gift to a friend or loved one.
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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 561 KB
Publisher: Profit Strategy Online (March 15, 2006)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
Language: English
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Pregnancy Book Reviews: Taboo Secrets of Pregnancy: A Guide to Life with a Belly
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Brass, outspoken and witty, “Taboo Secrets of Pregnancy” dishes out practical advice and pee-in-your-pants fun like no one yet. Join this pregnant mom of two as she journeys yet again through the rough and tumble life of a pregger. Boldly proclaiming taboo truths on those touchy subjects that books gloss over and doctors ‘forget’ to mention, this guide lets empathy roll in as the naked bum of truth is bared.
From gassy bellies to sprouting hairs in unmentionable places, “Taboo Secrets of Pregnancy” spells it out in no uncertain terms, and actually provides realistic guidance on what the blazes to do about it.
Say goodbye to fragile advice and get ready to hear it like it is. Toughen up your delicate senses, girly! You’re about to take a break from the technical tomes, and dive in for an adventure in gestating!
About the Author
Michelle Smith is a Speech-Language Pathologist, working with kids from preschool to high school. She lives in Texas, adores her three girls, and enjoys reading, sleeping (woohoo!), and taking care of her enormous Maine Coon cat. This is Michelle’s third book behind Life with Toddlers and the Toddler ABC Guide to Discipline. Her unique perspective and distinct voice allows her to encourage, entertain, and empower caregivers with heart-felt, professional, and realistic advice.
Product Details
Paperback: 150 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace (July 29, 2010)
Language: English
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By labyrinth_lady8
This review is from: Taboo Secrets of Pregnancy: A Guide to Life with a Belly (Kindle Edition)
I laughed hysterically every time I opened up this book (*Or Rather Turned On My Kindle To Read It*)!
My husband and I are considering children after this year and I wanted to get a head-start by reading a few pregnancy books to get a good idea of what I was getting into. Not only was this book informative but it made me laugh through some of the more uncomfortable subjects like varicose veins and the external cephalic procedue (*AKA Turning The Baby In The Womb To Prevent Breech Birth*).
I highly recommend this book!
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Pregnancy Book Reviews: 40 Weeks +: The Essential Pregnancy Organizer (The Essential Organizers)
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The planner is so thoughtfully organized you’ll wonder just who the panel of experts is who created the book… — Five Star Reviews, November 2006
Product Description
Finally! A well designed, well researched, easy-to-use organizer for every stage of pregnancy. Forget ducks and bunny rabbits–this clean, sophisticated organizer is designed for modern parents-to-be.
An essential addition to your pregnancy library, this handy tool simplifies the process of preparing for a baby. Tabs provide quick access to checklists, forms, and questionnaires that help manage the details of pregnancy and baby’s first weeks at home.
This journal-sized organizer fits perfectly in a handbag, making it the ideal companion for the many travels between nightstand, desk, and practitioner s office. With space to answer questions about pregnancy and baby’s birth, 40 Weeks + ultimately becomes a record of the amazing journey into parenthood!
The contents include:
* Detailed timeline and pregnancy calendar
* Interview questions for obstetricians, midwives, pediatricians, nannies, and day care centers
* Questions to formulate a birth plan
* Prenatal check-up pages
* Practical baby shopping list for parents
* Gift tracker
* Tips on saving time around the house
* Coach’s preparations and contact lists
* Feeding and diapering records
* Helpful resources
* Pocket for paperwork or keepsakes
* and much more
Product Details
Spiral-bound: 138 pages
Publisher: Mango Media; 4th edition (November 6, 2006)
Language: English
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By Papa Bear (San Jose, CA)
This review is from: 40 Weeks +: The Essential Pregnancy Organizer (Spiral-bound)
I just want to add how useful this planner is for dads-to-be. Prior to delivery, it was highly functional, helping us organize and prepare in so many ways. There was even a section dedicated exclusively to helping the coach (that’s you, pop) get everything in order. However, when the big day arrived and the contractions started coming fast and furious, the planner moved from functional to absolutely indispensable.
The last thing I wanted to do was scramble around, pulling together phone lists, contraction charts, etc., and 40 Weeks + solved that problem wonderfully. All the notes and lists my wife was counting on me to bring to our birthing center were in one convenient place. I just grabbed our bags, our birth plan, and this planner, and off we went.
After delivery, the planner never left my side. I was able to track feedings and diaper changes, take notes on all the once-in-a-lifetime moments we experienced, and work through our call list without missing anyone. Believe me, if your experience is like mine, your partner’s not going to want to deal with these details post-partum, and 40 Weeks + can definitely help you help her.
As a new dad, I heartily recommend it.
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Pregnancy Diet Book Reviews: Eating for Pregnancy: The Essential Nutrition Guide and Cookbook for Today’s Mothers-to-Be
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From Publishers Weekly
Aiming to fill a gap in the market, Jones has collaborated with perinatal nutritionist Hudson to produce a volume that combines both recipes and nutritional advice aimed specifically at the mother-to-be. Delicately balancing optimum and unnecessary weight gain with the required dietary needs for a healthy lifestyle, Jones and Hudson also addresses the requirements of diabetic, vegetarian and vegan diets. After an introduction providing a summary of needs and goals, the authors start with breakfast and move through the usual soups, salads and mains before finishing with desserts. A full chapter is dedicated to the vegetarian diet, and at the beginning of each chapter recipes are highlighted to indicate that they conform to a vegan diet. Each section contains recommended pantry items for the recipes. Along the way Jones makes full use of convenience and semi-prepared ingredients to provide simple yet flavorful dishes, while Hudson doles out advice on vitamins, health hazards and goals. Each recipe is preceded with the nutritional goal for baby and mother-to-be and followed by tips for cooking, storage, health, special diets as well as complete meal ideas, variations and the approximate nutritional content. Appendixes on weight, sources of nutrition from calcium to iron and food safety round out the book. Despite the book’s wordiness and repetition in places there is an overwhelming amount of information.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Details
Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books; Second Edition, Completely Revised and Expanded edition (June 9, 2009)
Language: English
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By N. Kevorkian (Maryland)
This review is from: Eating for Pregnancy: An Essential Guide to Nutrition with Recipes for the Whole Family (Paperback)
When you have a baby you end up buying a million books and reading everything you can. When you have your second, as I just did, you only have time to read the most practical books. This book gave me all the understandable nutritional information that I needed for a healthy pregnancy, plus 100+ great-tasting recipes that even I can cook and my family enjoys. This is one “pregancy book” that has a shelf life longer then 9 months.
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Pregnancy Book Reviews: Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Childbirth
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From Publishers Weekly
McCarthy, 1994 Playmate of the Year, actress (Scream 3; Baywatch; etc.) and former host of MTV’s Singled Out, gave birth to her first child in 2002. Her pregnancy wasn’t pretty—and she wants to tell readers all about it. At the outset, she tells them, “If you bought this book, you are already aware of my frankness when it comes to certain things—anatomy and bodily functions among them. If someone gave this book to you as a gift and you’ve never heard of me, apologies to you!” She goes on to recount the nitty-gritty of pregnancy in all its gory detail, covering morning sickness, hormonal rage, cravings, hemorrhoids, “engorged” breasts, gas, hot flashes, fainting spells, weight gain, acne, water retention and, finally, labor. McCarthy is undeniably crass but funny, and her candor and self-deprecation are refreshing. Each brief, chatty chapter focuses on a different—and awful—facet of pregnancy, with McCarthy relating personal anecdotes and usually winding down by reassuring women they’re not alone. McCarthy’s tales are, for the most part, a hoot, though they may offend more uptight readers. For example, in the beginning of McCarthy’s pregnancy, she was constipated, so she visited a specialist. In the waiting room, the assistant called her name, and “everyone… looked up in surprise, and I knew what they were thinking: ‘Jenny McCarthy has butt hole problems?’ I was so embarrassed, until I realized that they had no right to be smirking: Those assholes were also there because of their own assholes. I felt better already.”
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Booklist
McCarthy applies her in-your-face manner and blue humor to the subject of pregnancy and childbirth in this little piece of fun. The former Playboy centerfold and all-around bad girl recounts her journey to motherhood with utter abandon, discussing topics that those other wholesome books tend to treat too gently, such as enemas, pubic hair growth, and sex in the ninth month. What’s noble about this book (yes, noble) is that women who find these topics too embarrassing to bring up now have a place to read about them in a frank and open discussion.^B After all, they’re as real as morning sickness, and McCarthy treats them with a candor that borders on crude but that is refreshing, and, ultimately, necessary. Not to mention funny. Like a gossipy girlfriend, McCarthy brings you in and makes you laugh; there’s a certain comfort in knowing that even a sex symbol gets stretch marks and balloons to 200 pounds during pregnancy. A must-have for any childbirth collection. An aggressive marketing campaign suggests libraries ought to stock up. Mary Frances Wilkens
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Product Details
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Da Capo Press (December 13, 2005)
Language: English
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By Heidi Dexter (Sunny Florida)
This review is from: Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Childbirth (Paperback)
There are a lot of pregnancy books out there that just, in my option, want to just give you the facts, overlooking the fact that pregnant women need to laugh a little, too. Well, thankfully, there is Belly Laughs and while it is filled with the trials and tribulations of pregnancy, Ms. Mccarthy never fails to poke a little fun at it, too, and at herself. It’s just a great read all pregnant women should read. I also liked and would suggest Really Pregnant! Confessions of a New Mom-To-Be or Why I Couldn’t Stop Eating Brownies.
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Pregnancy Book Reviews: Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy
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From Publishers Weekly
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.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. –This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Product Details
Paperback: 509 pages
Publisher: Good Books (May 2011)
Language: English
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By Julia
This review is from: Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy (Paperback)
Back when babies were just daydreams, I recieved “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” (3rd ed.) from a pregnant friend who had an extra copy. Not knowing any better, I was quite pleased. Once I became pregnant and actually needed a guide, however, that changed. I found the book to be poorly organized, overly conversational and condescending in tone (especially given my plans to be a stay-at-home mom), and generally useless for anything other than instilling fear and paranoia. Most exasperating, though, was the “organization.” Symptoms that can arise during varying parts of pregnancy are scattered haphazardly amongst the monthly chapters. This means that the book must be read cover to cover and all material retained in memory if hunting through the index and flipping back and forth between sections doesn’t sound appealing.
Enter the “Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy.” Hallelujah! Not wanting to suffer through another mediocre guide to pregnancy, I looked through every book I could get my hands on, and this was the only one that satisfied my criteria. It is written by trustworthy professionals in clear yet -professional- language, it provides information on “pregnancy, childbirth and your newborn” in chronological order, and best of all, it contains separate sections entitled, appropriately, “decision guides for pregnancy, childbirth and parenthood,” “pregnancy reference guide,” and “complications of pregnancy and childbirth,” each with a table of contents at the beginning of the section. Instead of having to take a wild guess at which chapter (or, more likely, chapters) cramping might have landed in in “What to Expect” or searching the entire index, I could find it, along with all the other things I might be wondering about, in the reference guide. Blessed simplicity!
The “Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy” was the only book I needed. Once I found it, “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” went back on the shelf and stayed there.
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