Multiple Sclerosis and Having a Baby: Everything You Need to Know about Conception, Pregnancy, and Parenthood

An essential resource for anyone with MS who is considering having a child. 

• Firsthand advice from a woman with multiple sclerosis who has successfully  borne and raised a child.

• Contains information that can change the lives of many of the 250,000 women in the United States suffering from MS.

• Highly readable format puts the facts at your fingertips. 

Diagnosed with MS at twenty-eight, author Judy Graham gave birth for the first time at the age of thirty-eight. Her new book Multiple Sclerosis and Having a Baby  provides other women who are considering starting a family with the kind of genuine and useful insight that comes only from firsthand experience. Multiple Sclerosis and Having a Baby makes available not only the medical answers prospective parents need, but also the practical suggestions and sound advice that will help them meet the many unique and sometimes difficult challenges that face couples living with MS. 

In this highly informative and readable book, Graham asks and provides answers for nearly every question a woman with multiple sclerosis might want to consider before having a baby. With the latest medical facts and valuable data culled from hundreds of interviews with women who have multiple sclerosis and are currently raising a child, Graham straightforwardly addresses such issues as the possibility of relapse, genetic predisposition to MS, sexuality and fertility, pregnancy, postnatal care, and breastfeeding as they relate to women with MS. 

An essential resource for anyone with MS who is considering having a child. 

• Firsthand advice from a woman with multiple sclerosis who has successfully  borne and raised a child.

• Contains information that can change the lives of many of the 250,000 women in the United States suffering from MS.

• Highly readable format puts the facts at your fingertips. 

Diagnosed with MS at twenty-eight, author Judy Graham gave birth for the first time at the age of thirty-eight. Her new book Multiple Sclerosis and Having a Baby  provides other women who are considering starting a family with the kind of genuine and useful insight that comes only from firsthand experience. Multiple Sclerosis and Having a Baby makes available not only the medical answers prospective parents need, but also the practical suggestions and sound advice that will help them meet the many unique and sometimes difficult challenges that face couples living with MS. 

In this highly informative and readable book, Graham asks and provides answers for nearly every question a woman with multiple sclerosis might want to consider before having a baby. With the latest medical facts and valuable data culled from hundreds of interviews with women who have multiple sclerosis and are currently raising a child, Graham straightforwardly addresses such issues as the possibility of relapse, genetic predisposition to MS, sexuality and fertility, pregnancy, postnatal care, and breastfeeding as they relate to women with MS. 

By the author of the bestselling Multiple Sclerosis, here is an essential resource for anyone with MS who is considering having a child.

Includes bibliographical references (p.175-181) and index.

Judy Graham has had MS for more than twenty-five years. By following a variety of self-help therapies she has succeeded in stabilizing her condition and continues to work as a freelance writer and television and radio producer.  The author of the bestseller Multiple Sclerosis, she lives in England with her partner and her twelve-year-old son Pascal.

By the author of the bestselling Multiple Sclerosis(55,000 copies sold), here is an essential resource for anyone with MS who is considering having a child.

Judy Graham has had MS for more than twenty-five years. By followinga variety of self-help therapies she has succeeded in stabilizing her conditionand continues to work as a freelance writer and television and radio producer.andnbsp;The author of the bestseller Multiple Sclerosis, she lives in Englandwith her partner and her twelve-year-old son Pascal.

Multiple Sclerosis and Having a Baby

Everything You Need to Know about Conception, Pregnancy, and Parenthood

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Will I Get Worse If I Have a Baby

2 Can You Pass MS on to Your Child

3 Deciding Whether to Have a Baby

4 Can You Stop Yourself from Getting Worse?

5 Relationships, Sexuality, and Fertility

6 Pregnancy and Prenatal Care

7 Effects of Medications for MS

8 Labor and Childbirth

9 Breast-feeding

10 Getting the Help You Need

11 Fatigue, Depression, and Other Invisible Symptoms

12 Having More Children

13 Adoption

14 Single Mothers

15 Practicla Tips on Looking after a Child

16 Older Children

17 Working for a Living

18 Fathers with MS

19 Being a Parent with MS

Appendix A: Multiple Sclerosis Organizations and Information Services

Appendix B: Useful Books and Publications

Notes

Indexandquot;Graham is qualified to offer answers and comments that are sympathetic, empathetic, supportive and very, very honest." This is a wonderful book.andquot;
< em > Midwifery Today < /em >

andquot;This is a comprehensive and useful reference guide offering professional and practical advice on everything you need to know about conception, pregnancy and parenthood in relation to multiple sclerosis." It is useful for health professionals and couples and builds on earlier texts by the same author.andquot;
< em > Midwifery Digest < /em > , June 2001