Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy

    

     This pregnancy book is the work of a team of world-class pregnancy experts from Mayo Clinic, who find nothing in medicine more exciting and satisfying to experience than the birth of a child. A trusted companion and an essential pregnancy resource for parents-to-be By doctors who are also parents.

     

     Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy is your trusted companion—if you're considering becoming pregnant, or if you are pregnant. Full color throughout. Here in one book is: The best medical advice available on the subject; Answers to "I'm-too-embarrassed-to-ask" questions; A roadmap to a positive experience, answering both commonly asked and difficult questions; An atmosphere of extraordinary wonder about being pregnant, even when you might have lost sight of it! Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy is your wise friend. Absorb its information and wisdom in your own time, and refer back to it whenever you want. 

     

     Among the questions it covers are:

Is the time right?

How can I make time for a child?

What if I can't get pregnant?

What exactly should I eat—and how much?

What's the right amount of weight to gain?

Can I control this?

What sort of care provider should I choose?

What alternative and complementary medicine can I safely use?

Can those around me survive my mood swings?

Can we still have enjoyable sex?

What's happening to my baby—and to me—week by week?

Breast or bottle?

What does labor feel like?

Can we manage as parents? 

     

     Imagine the world's best medical experts in a room with your most trusted and no-nonsense friend who is a mother. Then ask them everything you'd like to know about being pregnant, day or night. This is Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy. In full color!

Offers a reference guide to pregnancy and childbirth, discussing morning sickness, back pain, gestational diabetes, and breast-feeding with a week-by-week guide to changes in both mother and baby.

Offers a reference guide to pregnancy and childbirth, discussing morning sickness, back pain, gestational diabetes and breast-feeding with a week-by-week guide to changes in both mother and baby. Original.

     

     By the pregnancy experts at Mayo Clinic